I’m on the nicest plane of my life, on Avianca to Bogota. There is a US/Euro AC outlet, a USB jack in which I’m charging my iPhone, a cup holder on the seat back (genius!) and personal screens. There’s oddly an internet jack, but I haven’t the cord to check if it works. All in economy. This is like magical realism. Where else but Colombia?
The best part: Avianca’s slogan is “Colombia: the only risk is that you’ll want to stay.” This is of course better than the runner up, “Hardly anyone gets kidnapped anymore.”
BA and SN Brussels (my usual carriers to Africa) will now feel so ghetto. Not as bad as American, of course…
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Oh man, can you really use “ghetto” like that? Really?
I second the Emirates recommendation. Though, I don’t know anything of free upgrades.
Like “Tim”…I remember 10 years ago sitting in toilet at the back of an Avianca flight as the seemingly elastic back portion of the plane bounced thru a storm and seeing the writing was in cyrllic script. didnt fill me with joy.
however, the stewardess were fantastic as i spent a good couple of hours following my hyperactive 2 year old daughter up and down the aisles until they took her and played with her in the back while everyone was sleeping.
Good one! I want to fly Avianca as well. Better so, wanna go to Bogota!
Greetings from Abeche…
Kacper
following this trip as i will be in caratagena later in the year, im interested in the music champeta music
The slogan “the only risk is wanting to stay” is not Avianca’s. It’s actually part of the country image campaign, to promote tourism and foreign investment.
You need to fly Emirates. You get all that and 900 channels of entertainment. This won’t help you, but they tend to give free upgrades to young women who are traveling solo to Africa. I’ve never had such a relaxing five hours sitting among bastions of east African corruption.
That’s big step up from the ’80’s when I’d regularly see Avianca planes with Farsi and Arabic script. Which was only slightly less frightening than realizing my pilot on an Ethiopian Airlines puddle-jumper (well, dry river jumper)was an American and wondering what he had to have done to be flying the bottom-of-the-ladder route in Ethiopia.