Miat or Aeroflot?
Naturally people will go Miat (Mongolian Airlines), just to avoid Aeroflot. However since this trip I've confirmed something: is neither of them... is actually Moscow airport! I could be flying 1st class with Qtar airlines (the best I had so far), but having to spend time in Moscow will kill the dream of 1st class and the champagne!
Miat is evil: they tell you lies, they pretend you going to Berlin, but anyhow they make you get out of the plane in moscow, take all your hand luggage and leave the plane. A stopover they say... "stopovers" are supposed to be what the word means, you stop, you don't leave the plane. And have to go through the whole process of checking and passing security, with 2 very incompetent-and-bored-to-death-old-ladies that are looking to create/find problems regardless of the queue and the fact a second plane has arrived... Then the airport itself! Sordidness expresses badly the feeling this airport gives you. It makes you wanna run away from Russia!
So if you are taking Miat to avoid Moscow you failed! Because not only you'll have to spend time in the airport, but it will frustrate you even more, when you see there are flights directly from Moscow to wherever you are going, like Paris. But you, YOU will have to go to Berlin and then wait hours to then get the connexion to the european city of your choice... And things can get worse when there are "technical problems" that nobody can explain, and you end up having a 4 hour "stopover". For a consolation, at least i found a seat this time and i am not seating on the stairs!
So if you are in Mongolia and trying to find your way home and you think "I'll never take Aeroflot I rather go Miat". Stop, and think.. Would you rather get on a plane to Moscow then a plane to the city of your choice... with and unpleasant wait in the airport? Or would you rather do that with Miat, and have the same journey plus and extra wait in Berlin and an extra possibility of missing connexions and getting bored to death in an airport so that you start mumbling to strangers, and arguing with toilet cleaners??? If I were you, i'll think twice and forget about the Aeroflot myth and get on that bloody plane!!!! I wish I had anyway!!!!!!
My computer is running out of battery (of course there are not starbucks with plugs next to each table so you can enjoy a coffee while using the computer!!! I'm lucky to be sitting on a chair right now!), still don't know when we are leaving, and if I will have to spend the night in Berlin, by the looks of it I might miss my connexion Berlin-Paris... so I tell you now, I wish I'd flown with Aeroflot... the Aeroflot flight Moscow-Paris has just left!!!!
Let's see the positive, for some strange reason there is a free internet connexion! although I found that too late and my computer will die very soon!
Oh! happy days!
Spice that up with the fact that I'm dealing with the fact that I'm leaving the country I lived and loved for 2 years! and didn't sleep last night...
Naturally people will go Miat (Mongolian Airlines), just to avoid Aeroflot. However since this trip I've confirmed something: is neither of them... is actually Moscow airport! I could be flying 1st class with Qtar airlines (the best I had so far), but having to spend time in Moscow will kill the dream of 1st class and the champagne!
Miat is evil: they tell you lies, they pretend you going to Berlin, but anyhow they make you get out of the plane in moscow, take all your hand luggage and leave the plane. A stopover they say... "stopovers" are supposed to be what the word means, you stop, you don't leave the plane. And have to go through the whole process of checking and passing security, with 2 very incompetent-and-bored-to-death-old-ladies that are looking to create/find problems regardless of the queue and the fact a second plane has arrived... Then the airport itself! Sordidness expresses badly the feeling this airport gives you. It makes you wanna run away from Russia!
So if you are taking Miat to avoid Moscow you failed! Because not only you'll have to spend time in the airport, but it will frustrate you even more, when you see there are flights directly from Moscow to wherever you are going, like Paris. But you, YOU will have to go to Berlin and then wait hours to then get the connexion to the european city of your choice... And things can get worse when there are "technical problems" that nobody can explain, and you end up having a 4 hour "stopover". For a consolation, at least i found a seat this time and i am not seating on the stairs!
So if you are in Mongolia and trying to find your way home and you think "I'll never take Aeroflot I rather go Miat". Stop, and think.. Would you rather get on a plane to Moscow then a plane to the city of your choice... with and unpleasant wait in the airport? Or would you rather do that with Miat, and have the same journey plus and extra wait in Berlin and an extra possibility of missing connexions and getting bored to death in an airport so that you start mumbling to strangers, and arguing with toilet cleaners??? If I were you, i'll think twice and forget about the Aeroflot myth and get on that bloody plane!!!! I wish I had anyway!!!!!!
My computer is running out of battery (of course there are not starbucks with plugs next to each table so you can enjoy a coffee while using the computer!!! I'm lucky to be sitting on a chair right now!), still don't know when we are leaving, and if I will have to spend the night in Berlin, by the looks of it I might miss my connexion Berlin-Paris... so I tell you now, I wish I'd flown with Aeroflot... the Aeroflot flight Moscow-Paris has just left!!!!
Let's see the positive, for some strange reason there is a free internet connexion! although I found that too late and my computer will die very soon!
Oh! happy days!
Spice that up with the fact that I'm dealing with the fact that I'm leaving the country I lived and loved for 2 years! and didn't sleep last night...
