My first flight with Aeroflot
Ok, so I’m halfway through my first flight with Aeroflot, heading to Moscow on the first part of a two-leg journey to Yerevan, Armenia, and they’ve just served “lunch”. Despite my fears, everything seems to be ok, so far. Aeroflot are running reasonably new Airbus A321s that seem to be in good condition and the staff are friendly and polite. The on-board literature, not surprisingly, is almost all in Russian so offers limited entertainment to an English-only traveller. The in-flight catering is also surprisingly good. The chicken dinner is a bit small but not actually totally inedible and the salmon salad starter is also reasonably good (it takes a special kind of incompetence to screw-up smoked salmon, but it can be done). As always with airline food, whether or not you partake will depend largely on your attitude to personal risk, but on a scale of one to ten (“1: seriously unpleasant with a high risk of food poisoning” to “10: not actually bad enough to return when dining in a second-rate chain pub in Plymouth”) I’d put Aeroflot, on the basis of this limited sample, at about a six (“ok in small quantities where no alternatives present themselves but you wouldn’t choose it if they offered a Ryvita biscuit instead”. High praise indeed, considering.
(1 year ago)
