It’s going to be an thrilling few days right here at OMAAT, so let me clarify the small print of the journey that I simply put collectively, which will probably be commencing shortly…
I’m flying to Paris through Bogota in Avianca enterprise class
I’m headed to Paris very shortly, and I’m excited in regards to the routing that I’m taking, and I feel many OMAAT readers will probably be as properly. I’ll be flying from Miami (MIA) to Paris (CDG) through Bogota (BOG) on Avianca, as one does.
The primary section will probably be on the provider’s Airbus A320 enterprise class, which is someplace between a correct enterprise class and an intra-Europe enterprise class, based mostly on my impression. Then the second section will probably be in Avianca’s 787 enterprise class, which I haven’t flown in roughly a decade, however which was not too long ago rebranded, and apparently improved.
I managed to redeem Avianca Lifemiles for the ticket. Absolutely the lowest saver award price wasn’t obtainable, however I may ebook the ticket for round 90,000 Lifemiles, and given the 25% switch bonus, I take into account that to be fairly a great deal.
So, what ought to I anticipate from Avianca, on the dimensions of terrible to superior? Whereas I see point out on-line of Avianca getting Wi-Fi, it seems that presently most A320s and 787s don’t have Wi-Fi, so my apologies upfront for considerably sporadic posting, because it’s not usually I take this lengthy of a routing with out inflight Wi-Fi!
The explanation I’m flying to Paris…
Why am I flying to Paris? Properly, as I not too long ago wrote about, Air France is launching its new La Premiere firstclass, and it’s debuting between Paris (CDG) and New York (JFK) as of Tuesday. Air France invited me (and a few others) to be on the inaugural flight and expertise the product, and I accepted the invitation.
I typically have a coverage of reserving all of my flights alone, and I don’t take flights through media invites, since I prefer to overview experiences independently. The final flight I accepted an invite for a industrial flight was 15 years in the past, and it’ll in all probability be one other 15 years earlier than I settle for one other invitation. Heck, I typically don’t even attend media occasions, for a similar cause I don’t settle for comped flights.
Why did I settle for an invite this time round, and make an exception? I attempted to strategy it virtually. The inaugural flight solely has media in firstclass, and it wasn’t even doable to ebook a first-class ticket through every other means. So slightly than on precept avoiding this expertise and having a number of folks beat me to the punch on reporting about this new product, I’m going to provide y’all as a lot “stay reporting” as I can, on Tuesday.
I’m already very accustomed to the prevailing La Premiere firstclass product, so this journey isn’t in regards to the service, meals, and many others. However I determine this flight is going on both method, and me selecting to not report on it doesn’t actually profit anybody. So I’m making an exception right here, and nonetheless hope to overview the complete expertise independently in some unspecified time in the future sooner or later.
On Tuesday, anticipate tons of stay protection. We’ve nonetheless not really seen any actual footage of the brand new cabins put in on the airplane, so I can’t wait to see what they seem like in particular person. My protection will transcend that, since Air France is reconfiguring its 4 cabin Boeing 777-300ERs tip-to-tail, so I’ll report again on every thing.
Backside line
I’m headed to Paris for a fast journey, flying Avianca enterprise class on the outbound, and Air France La Premiere firstclass on the return. I’m excited to expertise Avianca’s A320 and 787 enterprise class, and naturally I’m additionally excited to be on Air France’s first flight with its reconfigured 777s, and the brand new La Premiere.
I’m making a really uncommon exception by accepting a media flight, however I couldn’t flip down the chance to be among the many first to report again on the brand new seat. So keep tuned, over the following couple of days there will probably be updates from my Avianca journey, after which on Tuesday, I’ll have stay protection of the Air France expertise.
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