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Old Apr 11, 2008 | 7:45 am
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hauteboy
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For flight info, I posted a mini report in:
http://www.flyertalk.com/forum/showt...t=addis&page=5

The Ethiopian flights were fine, but only 1 of our 5 flights left on time. The flight from DC was on a 767, it departs from the D-terminal near the Admirals Club. Three meals are served enroute to Addis, dinner/lunch after takeoff, a snack before arriving in Rome, then breakfast before arriving in Addis. I have some pics of the meals on my flickr page. They offer a fasting food (vegetarian) menu. The Rome stopover is in the middle of the night and is for crew change only, all passengers stay in their seats. All econ seats had chair-back video (IFE), although mine was not working, so not able to comment on it. Seating is 2-3-2 in Economy class, pitch is rather tight, made more so by the video box under the seat, only gives 4-5" clearance so not much room to put things/legs under the seat. I had trouble stretching out. The seats themselves were blue+light green cloth. The exit row (30?) have the best legroom, several feet of space. This is a 2-class flight. Biz class is 2-2-2, followed by a mini econ-cabin maybe 4 rows, then the main econ cabin.

We had three internal flights, Addis to Lalibela, Lalibela to Bahar Dar and Bahar Dar to Addis. All these flights were on Fokker 50 turboprops, with open 2x2 seating (the boarding pass says differently, one of mine said 22K!) Unfortunately they collect the entire boarding pass so you don't get to keep the stub. They serve drinks and a piece of pound cake on these flights.

Our return flight to DC was on a different 767, this one did not have seat-back IFE, these seats were a blue leather. This flight was completely full, and there were probably 8-10 people adopting babies on our flight. One of the babies screamed the whole way back.
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