Despite its (recent) bad reputation, Olympic is not
that bad. I would say it is mediocre. Indeed bellow BA, LH, SR etc, but at about the same level as Alitalia or Iberia. Hmm, probably better than Alitalia actually
. In any case, if you have the choice of a better carrier, it makes sense not to fly OA.
Where I
do recommend OA is for their business class between London-LHR or Paris-CDG and Athens: two (out of three) daily LHR-ATH and one (out of two) CDG-ATH flights are served with their
Airbus A300 planes, which have true, international business class (2x2x2, big seats, legroom, individual TV etc), as opposed to the pseudo-business class standard in Europe nowadays.
NickyD, as of April 15, 2001, there are no OA flights where smoking is permitted any more.
Originally posted by NickyD:
I was comepletely unprepared for my first flight on Olympic, was totally flabbergasted when I took a flight from Nairboi to Athens, and once in the air, everybody lit up cigarettes. (My BA plane was grounded for mechanical failures, and they had to put 300+ people on any flights they could to get them out of Kenya over the next two days.)
Do they still allow smoking on Olympic flights? That is one airline, I never want to experience again.