2011-12-26, 11:27
Ursprungligen postat av Barsuk
Hjältebolaget Aeroflot ligger mig varmt om hjärtat. Hjälteflygplatsen Sheremetyevo ligger mig minst lika varmt om hjärtat. Det känns som jag tillbringat halva mitt vuxna liv där så jag är väl hjärntvättad eller lider av något gisslansyndrom.
Vilken terminal du landar på beror vilket bolag du flyger med. Flyger du SAS, Aeroflot eller någon av deras SkyTeampartners så hamnar du på splitternya terminalen. Tyvärr, den gamla hade sin egen helt unika charm. Men om du har tid kan du traska tjugo minuter före eller efter incheckning/säkerhetskontroll till den gamla delen, de är sammanbundna. Så kan du uppleva litet av det gamla goda dåliga legendariska Sheremetyevo, flygplatsen som Gud glömde.
Aeroflot är kanonbra, punkt. Alla flygvärdinnor är unga, vackra, begåvade och talar flera språk flytande. Punktliga. Maten är bra. Planen är moderna o med allt man kan önska sig. Aeroflots snittålder på planen är mindre än fyra år, att jämföra med tex SAS vars plan ligger på över tolv år i snitt.
Aeroflot fick pris häromåret för bästa businessklass inom SkyTeamalliansen, i konkurrens med bolag som Air France, Delta och KLM. Det säger kanske något.
Jag bjuder på några vackra rader om Sheremyetovo från http://www.salon.com/2007/06/15/askthepilot236/:
Sheremetyevo International, Moscow (SVO)
"The best at being worst is Sheremetyevo, built for the 1980 Olympics by crazed East German architects angry at their Soviet masters. Dim and grungy, with bizarre hexagonal clusters hanging from the ceiling; populated by roving bands of Gypsies and transit passengers lying around the floor awaiting escape; staffed by surly employees looking for naive foreigners to pad their salary. It's an hour in the passport control line. You retrieve your luggage -- or don't, depending on how well you wrapped it in duct tape -- and lug it to the customs line. After a long wait, an agent paws through your belongings before releasing you into a mob of taxi drivers and thieves."
"You can smoke. You can board a plane while staggeringly drunk and no one will say anything. In a corner on the ground floor there's a mini casino with bizarre games of chance. A shitty sandwich costs $10. The locals are unfriendly. It's still not uncommon to get detained and ripped off by one of the myriad police gangs shaking down passengers. The bathrooms are disgusting despite being constantly cleaned by a gaggle of old ladies who don't mind that you're peeing in front of them. A ride to the city takes two hours due to traffic jams. Taxis cost hundreds of dollars for people who can't bargain with the greedy drivers. And the people arriving on flights from the U.S. seem to uniformly be American adoptive couples -- the single most annoying group of people of all time, for some reason."
"Sheremetyevo was a total nightmare until recently; it's now only a partial nightmare. The planning geniuses constructed two terminals, international and domestic, on opposite sides of the runways, meaning a 30-minute ride on the ring road. No one ever thought to put up signs directing transfer passengers, who must find an unmarked bus cruising around the parking lot while avoiding the scam artists trying to snag you for $50 cab fares."
Vilken terminal du landar på beror vilket bolag du flyger med. Flyger du SAS, Aeroflot eller någon av deras SkyTeampartners så hamnar du på splitternya terminalen. Tyvärr, den gamla hade sin egen helt unika charm. Men om du har tid kan du traska tjugo minuter före eller efter incheckning/säkerhetskontroll till den gamla delen, de är sammanbundna. Så kan du uppleva litet av det gamla goda dåliga legendariska Sheremetyevo, flygplatsen som Gud glömde.
Aeroflot är kanonbra, punkt. Alla flygvärdinnor är unga, vackra, begåvade och talar flera språk flytande. Punktliga. Maten är bra. Planen är moderna o med allt man kan önska sig. Aeroflots snittålder på planen är mindre än fyra år, att jämföra med tex SAS vars plan ligger på över tolv år i snitt.
Aeroflot fick pris häromåret för bästa businessklass inom SkyTeamalliansen, i konkurrens med bolag som Air France, Delta och KLM. Det säger kanske något.
Jag bjuder på några vackra rader om Sheremyetovo från http://www.salon.com/2007/06/15/askthepilot236/:
Sheremetyevo International, Moscow (SVO)
"The best at being worst is Sheremetyevo, built for the 1980 Olympics by crazed East German architects angry at their Soviet masters. Dim and grungy, with bizarre hexagonal clusters hanging from the ceiling; populated by roving bands of Gypsies and transit passengers lying around the floor awaiting escape; staffed by surly employees looking for naive foreigners to pad their salary. It's an hour in the passport control line. You retrieve your luggage -- or don't, depending on how well you wrapped it in duct tape -- and lug it to the customs line. After a long wait, an agent paws through your belongings before releasing you into a mob of taxi drivers and thieves."
"You can smoke. You can board a plane while staggeringly drunk and no one will say anything. In a corner on the ground floor there's a mini casino with bizarre games of chance. A shitty sandwich costs $10. The locals are unfriendly. It's still not uncommon to get detained and ripped off by one of the myriad police gangs shaking down passengers. The bathrooms are disgusting despite being constantly cleaned by a gaggle of old ladies who don't mind that you're peeing in front of them. A ride to the city takes two hours due to traffic jams. Taxis cost hundreds of dollars for people who can't bargain with the greedy drivers. And the people arriving on flights from the U.S. seem to uniformly be American adoptive couples -- the single most annoying group of people of all time, for some reason."
"Sheremetyevo was a total nightmare until recently; it's now only a partial nightmare. The planning geniuses constructed two terminals, international and domestic, on opposite sides of the runways, meaning a 30-minute ride on the ring road. No one ever thought to put up signs directing transfer passengers, who must find an unmarked bus cruising around the parking lot while avoiding the scam artists trying to snag you for $50 cab fares."
Opolerad markpersonal hos Aeroflot och dom är duktiga på att flyga och att förstöra bagage (som dom vägrar betala för). Det är min sammanfattning.