Airside_Elliot's video: Trip report Albawings B737-400 Flying on a 32 year old 737 London Stansted - Tirana

Hello and welcome to another trip report, this time I will be flying with Albawings on there classic 737-400 from London to Tirana. As the world moves on and strives to be more greener, it’s getting more and more harder to fly on the 737 classic family, there really isn’t many options available these days. One option is to fly with albawings, they are a small airline based in Tirana and they mostly fly routes to Italy from their base, however in the summer they operate a route to London Stansted. I jumped at the chance to catch a flight on this aircraft and step back in time and fly on this classic bird. The aircraft itself is 32 years old, delivered in 1989 and it had flown with various airlines before finding a home with albawings, now I don’t like to point out the negatives but the seats on this aircraft, they have seen better days and they look very worn and tatty, the leather has worn out on most of them. It’s not a good look, it makes you question is the safety of the planes is not good, that aside, the rest of the cabin was in good condition. The crew were friendly and spoke good English, I opted to purchase some food and drink for the menu, I got a sandwich, snack and drink got €9 which isn’t too bad. The flight was relatively smooth, unfortunately there was a lot of cloud cover as we flew over the alps so no good views today, however the skies cleared up as we flew over offering some nice views over Croatia Song: Waesto & AgusAlvarez - Kaila Music provided by Vlog No Copyright Music. Video Link: https://bit.ly/3LkVslQ FLIGHT INFORMATION: · Airline: Albawings · Airplane: Boeing B737-400 · Flight number: 2B 222 - Departure: London Stansted - STN - Arrival: Tirana - TIA · Seat: 4F · Registration: ZA-ALC · Recorded with IPhone pro 4K 60FPS Chapters Intro - 00:00 Flight route - 00:15 Views of the check in area - 00:20 Views of the departure lounge - 00:41 Views of the gate area - 01:02 Aircraft arriving on stand - 01:13 Boarding - 01:22 The seat and cabin views - 01:25 Pushback & Engine start - 01:57 Views as we taxi - 03:02 Take off - 03:24 Views as we climb - 04:45 Views of safety card & Magazine - 05:26 Onboard meal service - 05:51 Views as we fly to Tirana - 06:00 Views of Croatia - 06:23 Start of the descent - 06:40 Approach and Landing - 07:37 Views as we taxi to terminal - 09:55