Condor Trip Report flying from Frankfurt to Pointe-À-Pitre (in Guadalupe island) onboard one of the Condor Boeing 767-300W on a beautiful winter day. A nice flight on the Condor Beoing 767 from Frankfurt to Guadalupe island in the Caribbean. This is not a regular flight, but a charter one, in this case, organized by Costa Cruises, and only for the passengers of one of their cruises, in this case, the Costa Fascinosa. After a nice planespotting session at Frankfurt Terminal B, we boarded with almost 1h delay our Boeing 767 that would take us to Pointe-À-Pitre. From the very beginning, you could feel the atmosphere of a holiday flight: slow boarding, happy passengers, chilled cabin crew... We took off from runway 18 in Frankfurt and quickly made a right turn to start our route towards Guadeloupe. We over Luxembourg, north of Paris, and entered the Atlantic Ocean over the Brest area. From there we flew 8 hours over the sea. 8 hours without seeing a single point of ground. Water, water, and more water. This was a flight clearly marked by the turbulence we encountered several times as we crossed a couple of jetstreams over the Atlantic. This long route takes the Boeing 767 close to its limits in terms of range, meaning the fuel tanks were close to full. If we add a plane full of passengers, all of them with at least 2 pieces of baggage... we get a really heavy plane. That was the reason why our first cruise altitude was just 31.000 ft. As we could not climb very high during the first half of the flight, we couldn't avoid the turbulence. About the onboard service... well, I've seen them worse, but I've also seen much better services. There was only one meal option: pasta. It came with a cabbage salad, pudding and bread with butter. This time was not that I wanted to try another meal, but that I was really hungry after the quite small meal served... so I asked for another one. They brought me one that said was from the Premium Economy class. The service was sometimes interrupted by turbulence... but in any case, the crew just passed once more in 7h with a drink service. One hour and a half before landing, the crew offered the "dinner service", which wasn't more than a little snack. All in all a reasonably good experience taking into account the type of flight that it was: a pure holiday charter. For that I guess the service was ok, the crew was fine and in general, it was a good flight. However, on a 9h scheduled flight, there should be several drink services or a self-service on the galleys. At the end of the flight, I show you some glimpses of the cruise. Please let me know in the comments if you would be interested in a vlog just about a cruise trip. Now it's your turn! Have you ever flown with Condor? Which route? Which airplane model? How was the experience? Have you ever been in Guadalupe Island? Would you like to watch videos of cruise trips? Lots of things to talk about! Read you all in the comments! ✈ BECOME A MEMBER! Join the OnBoardHD crew and support your favorite channel! More info here: https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCGaHFbjx1cB0Q8IcM-DkPqA/join FLIGHT INFO: · Airline: CONDOR (for Costa Cruises) · Airplane: Boeing 767-300 · Flight number: DE3800 · AIRPORTS: - Departure: Frankfurt (FRA - EDDF) - Arrival: Pointe-à-Pitre (PTP - TFFR) · Departure Gate: B24 · Seat: 39K · Registration: D-ABUC · Date of Recording: March 2023 · Recorded with SAMSUNG GALAXY S21 Ultra (in UHD 4K). -------- ✈✈ TWITTER: twitter.com/OnBoardHD (@onboardhd) -------- * MUSIC: - Masked Raven by Vexento in NCS https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Nvc0hgt9I1g - Vlad Gluschenko - Overseas (Vlog No Copyright Music) Music promoted by Vlog No Copyright Music. Video Link: https://youtu.be/q4KE4eMhjqI - Hey! - Bensound https://www.bensound.com Support by RFM - NCM: https://bit.ly/2xGHypM ----- CHAPTERS ----- 00:00 Intro 00:28 Frankfurt Airport 01:50 Planespotting in Frankfurt 03:13 Boarding & Condor Cabin 04:40 Pushback in Frankfurt 05:45 Taxi & More Planes! 06:16 Takeoff from Frankfurt 07:55 Turbulent Climb 08:48 Views of Paris 09:20 Lunch Service 09:56 Northern France 11:10 Strong Turbulence over the Atlantic 12:30 Reaching the Caribbean 13:20 Descent to Guadeloupe Island 14:25 Approaching Pointe-à-Pitre 15:08 Landing in Pointre-à-Pitre 16:42 Taxi & Parking 18:18 Boeing 767 Cabin on Disembark 18:47 Welcome to Paradise! 20:08 Cruise on Costa Fascinosa © All rights reserved. This content may not be uploaded anywhere. You can share the Youtube link. Contact me on Twitter: @OnBoardHD #Condor #TripReport #Costa #Boeing767 #CostaCruises #CostaFascinosa
