TRIP REPORT
Written by Marko Jevtoivć
In July this 12 months, I had the prospect to fly on Air Serbia’s ATR 72-600 from Belgrade to Vienna. For the reason that flight was at 7:40 within the morning, we arrived on the airport at 5:30 by bus 600.
Test-in took slightly longer than anticipated due to the morning rush hour, so we waited about half-hour to get our boarding passes. Passport management, then again, was fast and easy. On the finish of 2024, new e-gates had been launched at Belgrade for quicker passport checks, although they’ll solely be utilized by passengers aged 18 and above. Safety was additionally very fast, and in contrast to in Vienna, I didn’t have to take my digicam out of my bag.
Our gate was introduced about an hour earlier than departure. ATR flights use gates on the far finish of Terminal 2, which is sort of a stroll from the duty-free retailers. Boarding began roughly 40 minutes earlier than departure. As ATRs are small plane, they’re parked on distant stands at Belgrade Airport. We boarded a bus that drove us to the plane in about 5 minutes. Nevertheless, getting onto the aircraft itself was a bit chaotic. We needed to wait outdoors, and we had been among the many final to board.
The cabin felt small, however the seats had been snug and provided loads of legroom, which I actually appreciated as I’m 185 cm tall (6 ft). We took off rapidly and climbed to 18,000 toes (about 5,500 meters). Cabin service started round 20 minutes into the flight, with the crew providing the well-known Serbian Plazma biscuit and a branded bottle of water, simply sufficient for this brief hop to Austria.
The full flight time was about 1 hour and quarter-hour, nevertheless it felt a lot shorter, extra like half-hour. After reaching high of descent, we spent about 40 minutes within the air earlier than touchdown. Landing in Vienna was easy, adopted by a barely longer taxi, which I anticipated on condition that Vienna is a a lot bigger airport than Belgrade.
I requested for a flight deck go to after touchdown, however sadly, my request was declined. General, it was a easy and pleasurable flight, arguably even higher than a few of Air Serbia’s Airbus flights.
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