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I flew Gran Canaria to Frankfurt in October 2021 on the Eurowings Discover A330 in Economy, I wouldn’t have any issue travelling long haul in economy with this airline and found it very similar to other long haul economy set ups, even though the plane wasn’t new it was very well presented and didn’t look old. Service was very good especially considering it was a sub 4 hour flight.
Hi! Flying home from Panama City with this airline. We’re you served the same food as In the video or did you have options. Also we’re there more than one meal, or should we bring something to eat with us? Thanks, August
Eurowings Discover was erected in a very short time by Lufthansa and they hired mostly employes as crews who previously had lost their jobs at other airlines and became unemployed. Their Pilots are mainly former Lufthansa Pilots who they fired during the Pandemic and who they now reengaged for Eurowings Discover with a much lower salary. This Flight Attendant was probably a former Thomas Cook FA who lost her job when Thomas Cook filed for bankruptcy, who was probably then unemployed for two or three years and who got now a - definetely lower payed - second chance with Eurowings Discover.
Everyday I stray further from even bothering on Lufthansa group airlines. Intra europe I am Finnair all the way, the detour to Helsinki doesn’t even bother me because the flights are almost always better in terms of service/ quality. Great video!
@@matiasvaara1478 that explains why when I was looking on flight radar at AYs A350 some were doing Las Vegas and other secondary American cities from Frankfurt, I thought it was an odd fifth freedom flight, but that’s good to know. Is it Finnair soft and hard product just sold by euro wings? Or is it just Finnair hard product?
By direct you mean Nonstop. Ex-Airline staff I am and when an Airline says a direct flight, it means one or more stops like for example an Original Frontier Airlines flight that flew direct ATL-ICT-ATL. It was a direct FL flight Denver to Atlanta but stopped in Wichita. Nonstop Denver to Wichita KS. We had another direct flight from GRI-LNK-OMA-PHX-TUS. This was a direct flight from Grand Island NB to Tucson. Nonstop from Omaha to Phoenix. Love your channel. I correct you because I respect your channel. Calling a nonstop a direct flight is a common mistake. Alaska Airlines ad agency recently did it in SFO by calling a nonstop SFO-LAS a direct flight. Where does it stop? FAT.
That's a very American perspective :-) All non-stop flights are direct flights of course, but not all direct flights are non-stop. Flights with stops are very rare within Europe, so "nonstop" is simply not used here; even the airlines don't say this. "Direct" flights are ones with a single flight number (which MAY include a stop, but don't *have* to). You can see the European practice here: www.britishairways.com/en-gb/destinations/johannesburg/flights-to-johannesburg BA's flights to JNB are non stop and direct, but only the word direct is used. Same again here with Lufthansa: www.lufthansa.com/xx/en/flights/flight-denver-frankfurt ... "Non stop" has no real meaning in Europe and only has proper currency in North America which has a unique aviation market!
@@Paul_Lucas Few Airlines do any direct multi-stop flights today. Most Airlines have their Hubs and focus Cities. I wish you had been able to fly America’s best Airline that flew for about 10 years, that is VX. Sadly AS did away with anything Virgin America. Keep up your good work. Greetings from SFO.
Really hope you can do more budget and economy airlines/flights. I know they don't draw those hot views but for your returners, I think it's always a breath of fresh air amongst the deluge of business and first class videos.
I just flew from Fra to Mru yesterday with EWD! It was on one of the older LH A330's! The service though was even better than on LH flights! This cold food you were served is not the main meal on a long haul flight! It is the second before landing.
If it makes you feel any better, last week BA served me fried rice in Club LAS-LHR......Just fried rice, they ran out of the protein (chicken) after 4 rows, yeah 40 J passengers were served fried rice.......Thankfully, it was a full fare ticket so as soon as I landed I killed the return leg and booked a VS flight instead.
I just stick with BA across Europe in Club Europe (I know it’s not worth it on the A320s/A321s) but made the most of recent double tier points offers with BA holidays with the canaries and Greece offering 320 points return (double the usual 160). Regardless of inflated prices vs competitors, I won’t stop flying BA due to their service and Heathrow T5. Couldn’t imagine ever going back to the likes of easyJet etc now that I’m Gold
Never, ever had a problem with BA. Perhaps I’ve been uncommonly fortunate, but I’ve always had good service (on-ground and in-flight) and I think that their Business product is still one of best around👍🏻✈️
Dont forget, when flying LH on those routes you also can "enjoy" a blocked middle seat and no IFE. Food quality on LHs flights has dropped a lot within the las years. So not a big difference
What a contrast to when we were there in October and November. Check in rammed. Flew back on Tui 787-9 G-tuil in October. Airport bus driver pointed out several hornets coming into land as we were waiting for others to board the bus that took us to our plane. Love this place and I don’t mind the airport either.
The cascading down of older aircraft from a mainline fleet to a charter/low cost subsidiary is of course nothing new - one of my first flights was in a British Airtours 707 from Gatwick to Tangier. As you rightly say there are many question marks around this offering but properly done is this model how mainline airlines can compete against their lower cost brethren? After all the idea is only about 50 years old…
In winter 2023, they used these planes on the normal daily Lufthansa route from Vancouver to Frankfurt. I don’t know if the price was adjusted or not but I’m glad I avoided them
That's a bit of a shocker, i see most airlines now cut costs. I went to Cape Verde (just short of 6 hours without delays from LGW) in March and for the first time in 7 trips there was no food included in the fare (i didn't see that advertised on the TUI website when i booked and i'd have had a very hearty lounge breakfast if i'd known). They were however selling hot food on the plane which was God damn awful. The wing i sat next to on the 787-9 Dreamliner on the way back had so much gaffer tape on it, i can't see how it was safe to fly. Keep up the good work of exposing poor services and amenities Paul.
The one and only time I flew on an A330 was right after the acquisition of US Airways by American Airlines, and an A330 was being used on the flight from Orlando to Philadelphia. Seeing an A330 flying for American Airlines was very weird. They were outdated at the time and soon were retired. I guess I was lucky to be able to fly one of the few A330 operated by American Airlines.
The A330 is one of my personal favourite planes. I started to fly it very frequently when it was a backbone to Emirates’ young fleet in the early 2000’s, and in recent years I was flying it a lot with SAS to North America (with a lot better business class in a 1-2-1 configuration for quite some years).
Michael O’Leary makes a good point that Lufthansa thinks using lowercase letting on the livery makes an airline low-cost. That’s the problem with legacy airlines that set up low-cost subsidiaries, they still have the same operational costs as a full-service airline so they can’t offer truly low fares.
Hi Paul, keep in mind that when going to the canary islands, there is a lack of wifi on a bigger part of the flight path (this is common of most of the airlines). The lounge in Gran Canaria is an awesome spot to wait for your flight, specially if the gate area is crowded. The views as said are amazing. With regard to your flight, just take it this way, the seat was more comfortable than an A321 ;)
The assertion that the lack of WiFi is a common problem on this route for most airlines, is just false. I'm sorry. I've flown from here to MAD and MUN. Never had a problem.
Well next time I'd suggest you to read about the so called WiFi. It is an onboard cloud where you can download Magazines, play games etc. Also, as someone else said, what you had was the second meal, which is served before landing. Pretty picky aren't you? And those are the reasons to avoid flying 4Y? Really?
I found gran canaria airport to be a pretty decent airport when i flew there in march. Pretty logically layed out and the security was super quick! Much faster than Groningen-Eelde where we were the only flight of the day. That Tui plane was pretty cramped though.
Indeed.👍 From the Gate to the Bus Stop and the other way around - you will not have any problems to find your way - and mostly you´ve not much need for waiting while queueing up. And if you dislike Burger King - there´s also a McDonald...😀
as a person who has just got to try business class once i'll love to sit in that seat instead of economy on a long flight from europe to asia for example. Direct isle would be better though.
I fly the London To LPA Gran Canaria route every year and how I miss Norwegian out of Gatwick on this route....was the best experience everytime and prices were very rarely above £120 RTN but now it's so volatile price wise .....this year going with TAP via Lisbon.....was bit worried when you said they lost your luggage...only time will tell
Oh dear. Just before watching this video I watched Dennis Bunnik's Ryanair flight which was also awful. Haven't flown yet since the world opened up again and with the chaos at airports and the poor flight experiences people seem to be having I am still reluctant to get back on a plane. Thinking of resurrecting our Covid cancelled Canada trip next year but holding off booking it for another couple of months. At least there is one benefit from the Covid issue. Air Canada only operated their Rouge service from Manchester before the pandemic but now you can get the proper Signature service to Toronto. Hopefully it will still be available next year.
AD: Jetbrigdes and widebodies. It is one gate that have jetbrigde for widebodies. The gate most to the north. It can even use two brigdes one one plane.
The VIP Lounge wasn't that great when I went in 2019. Last year it was closed for renovation. Nice to see, what a great product resulted now. I defintetly check it out, when I am at Las Palmas Airport next time.
I have flown on four of those airl8nes. Ryanair, EasyJet, Jet2 and Norwegian. My favourite was Norwegian to Florida and Jet2 within Europe, the less said about Ryanair the better
To be fair: I saw a few EW Discover Flight reports from flights to Cancun. and the Produkt is much much better then this 4h flighI think the service in business class has improved a bit. And on short or medium-haul routes it's definitely not the best, but I've seen worse. I hope the airline as well as the mother Lufthansa develop for the better again. CS promised it ;). The debts due to Corona have now been largely repaid. Other aircraft may or may not say that about themselves.
Thanks for the video! Regarding the subtitels in the video: Remeber that "Eurowings Discover" and "Eurowings" are two different airlines! They operate independent and have nothing in common beside the little name "Eurowings" as part of their name ;-) So: Do not mixup.
Eurowings discover had a project name being Ocean. it was more intended that eurowings discover would be a long haul leisure airline. But the brand is a bit weird to me still.
My flight from Prague to Bristol was delayed also but didn't get notification until I was at the airport I could have done a walking tour of the city instead 😬
Flew EW Discover 2 months ago from Frankfurt to Tampa Bay Florida... Worst flight of my life... Decided to go with flights that have layovers rather than flying with them again...
Yeah, the fact that they don’t charge less isn’t good! If this was a genuinely cheaper product, it’d be great, but it just isn’t! At least the crew seemed nice!😸
Great video as always Paul and went through Gran Canaria airport beginning of April myself . A very long terminal but due to covid so many shops now gone. We are back out in September will be interesting to see if any others have opened. I also keep my eyes peeled in case an F18 hornet takes off as well😀
Hi Paul, I’ve been following you for years and really enjoy your vlogs(?). I’m writing because I would like to ask you to do I review of the food on Air France whenever you have the opportunity. We recently flew AF from JFK to CDG. Your review of the food on this flight reminded me of how bad the food was on AF. Another friend said that she had had the same experience. The food was almost awful. Is it us or is the food really not suitable for human consumption. Thanks!
I traveled with this airline last week, from FraNkfurt to Calgary, they lost my luggage. There isn't a phone number or person you can talk to. Very unorganized. Everything is online. Bad experience.
A low cost air line is more of a business model than a reflection of the prices the passenger pays?I think that it's roughly an airline which does most things online and if you forget anything you'll find it difficult to find staff for the airline to check in manually at the airport and if you do find any staff it'll be pricey but as you probably won't find them because there aren't any you won't need to worry about that so make sure you check and double check everything!A European hop? Mauritania brings home the fact that the Canary Islands are in fact an archipelago of the African continent rather than Europe.I was reading a claim recently that they are the only part of Europe that you can see the Southern Cross, just ,from,no they are not Europe!
They aren't on the European continent no, they are on the African continent but their classified as Europe because they are owned and governed by Spain, a European country.
The Canary Islands are part of Spain and therefore part of the European Union - and on a vacation that is important in a couple of things: which immigration rules are in place (the Rules of the European Union), in what currency you´ve to pay (in Euro), what Law is enforced (the Law of Spain), which language the natives are speaking (Spanish) and so on.
I´m very familiar with Gran Canaria and the airport there - very nice to see them again, even if only via RU-vid.😀❤❤❤👍 And beyond that I must smile: What do you expect from Eurowings/Discover - Lufthansa on a 4-hours-trip: Lufthansa would have putted a bottle of Mineral Water in front of you and that was it...😀 They need to safe money after the Pandemic.
brilliant awsome video paul im on a 8 yearold airbus a330-300 for virgin atlantic on monday oct 3rd flying back on the 18th landing in the uk on the 19th
That's a different company. Germanwings was integrated into Eurowings and the brand was dissolved. Discover however is a stand alone airline inside the Lufthansa Group with no attachment to the main Eurowings brand. They just use the term Eurowings Discover for marketing purposes since this brand-name is already known for the broad public
Not sure I see the difference between this and Lufthansa - at least this is a fully flatbed, Condor or Candor another subsidiary only offers angle flat
Condor is since a long time no longer a subsidiary of Lufthansa. Lufthansa sold Condor back in 2002 to Thomas Cook and they were a Thomas-Cook-Subsidiary until Thomas Cook filed for bankruptcy in 2019. They managed to survive this and are now an independent airline runned by a London Investment Fonds as Majority Owner.
The Lounge Access will be build up more and more in the near future as EW Discover is just flying since summer 2021, so no wonder not every airport they fly to provides lounge access yet. In addition to that, meal service differs from long haul to short haul flights, as this was a short haul the meal service wont be that extended as on longer routes.
Hi Paul, another great video. I may have asked this before but I notice that you always touch the aircraft as you board. Is this just for luck???, lol.
Sounds pretty average not good mate..- Ambiance of the cabin and the food mate.. Hope you got couple of Single malt whiskies onboard in your forthcoming flights. Cheers, Pradeep.
Maybe you shud adapt your palet to different type of food and specially vegetables, rather than junk food or the Worcestershire sauce 😂😂😂😂😂😂 coz it looks quite nice and decent for a 3hrs flight on a low cost …
Eurowings looks much much better that BA business class anyday! Considering the price you paid for the trip, you got yourself a real bargain. Trust me.
I took eurowing once only, in economy for a flight from Zurich to Hamburg. It was ok for a short 1h30 flight but for anything too long, I would not want to take them
I wont mind them to long haul destinations like DomRep Punta Cana and Fort Myers FL USA (to avoid domestic). But Gran Canaria I still have the option of others and IF I t must be EW then I will aim for their a320 flights
What i find disturbing is that you buy ticket on 5* Lufthansa airline, and end up flying Eurowings Discover, that's really shocking! Shame on you, LH! And Eurowings Discover fly also long-haul... LH is just low-cost airline...
Paul, Have you ever visited Lanzarote, this was my favorite airport to watch with a live stream because you had a side view of the runway and could see the planes taxi to and from the hanger. They changed the location and now it's a head-on view with foreshortening and little else to see except on occasion . MIght be a nice place to visit. Cheers, Rik Spector
Many people want to fly as cheaply as possible but expect Business class Service. Anyone who wants to fly cheaply has to suffer...that is the bitter Reality.
