Flying with Blue Air

For the ones that don’t know already, Blue Air is the first Romanian air transporter for passengers that is offering low cost prices.

I have bought the ticket, on line, in February for a flight in April. I paid for a round trip Bucharest-Rome-Bucharest 59 euros. It is true that I left from Baneasa Airport, and believe me that you would not like to run with some hundreds of km/hour on a full-of-holes-runway. But anyway…

I passed of the check in point, and then I went to the custom and at the passport control. I said that I have to declare a laptop and they said I shouldn’t. Last time when I was caring a laptop they were shouting at me to declare it. I waited in the airport for one hour and a half because I usually go there with two - two and a half hours before the departure.

There was lots of Romanians, workers or travelers, lots of Italians business men that know to buy tickets on line (good for them!). The problem is that low cost companies are offering free sitting in the plane …this means that at the check in office you will not have a sit number written on your boarding card. Because of this, when the bus came to take us to the plane everybody was trying to get in side and latter out site of the bus as quickly as possible.

But I got my sit at the window. Yupppppy! The taking off was ok, done by the book. The flight was ok too, and I liked that they gave me tea for free and even a news paper… that between us I was not able to read it because was an newspaper just with advertise. The landing was … fast, and when I am saying fast it was really so. It means that the plane started to go down with such a speed that I thought it’s crushing. But hopefully it was not, but the speed got down at the moment when the wheels touched the ground.

Here are some pictures that I took during the flight with the photo camera of my mobile.

Rome Ciampino is the secondary airport of Rome, but closer to the city that Fiumicino. I was happy because I paid 1 euro for a bus from airport to Ciampino train station and then 90 cents for the train till Roma Termini (the main train station). If I was landing on Fiumicino there was a 9,5 euro tax for a train to Roma Termini.