My Aero Dili A320 flight from Dili to Bali was a comfortable ride with a good meal and plenty of privacy: I was the only passenger in the business class cabin.
Aero Dili A320 Business Class – My First Impressions
After the unique check-in and boarding process, I made my way outside the terminal to board my flight via airstairs.
The business class cabin on the Aero Dili A320 is eight seats in a 2-2 configuration. Seats include greater recline and a foot rest and are more akin to an international premium economy seat rather than a “domestic first class” seat in the USA.
The flight was about 3/4 full in the back, but I was the only passenger in business class!
During the flight, an engineer joined me in business class, sitting in the second row on the opposite side. Aero Dili (wisely) transports an engineer on flights, much like United does on its 737 Island Hopper service.
Before takeoff, a warm towel and beverage were offered:
After takeoff, a meal was offered with a choice between chicken or beef. The flight attendant recommended beef so I tried that and was glad I did…it was like a hamburger with a great combination of spices with rice and French Fries on the side. Bread, fruit, and some sort of gelatin dessert were served on the side along with a slice of processed cheese.
After the meal, I enjoyed a strong cup of coffee.
The crew was very lovely and attentive…I think there was a bit of awkwardness over me being the only passenger, but the crews on Aero Dili were excellent on both flights.
We landed early in Bali and I was soon on my way through immigration (yes, another $30 visa) and on my way to the domestic side of the airport.
I’ll have more pictures and details in my full review, but I was so thankful that I was not only able to visit Timor-Leste, but that I was able to try the flag carrier in both economy class and business class.
The flights were not cheap when you consider how short they were, but it’s always fun to fly on the flag carrier of another nation, and I do hope to return to Timor-Leste one day and maybe next time ride the A319 with lie-flat beds!
Next, I’ll share about my domestic transfer in Bali and then my flight over to Jakarta on a Garuda Indonesia A330.
I’m sharing about my whirlwind trip through Asia.
This is one of the best series of reviews since the Benin trip in 2020!
Anyone remember those Bud Light “dilly dilly” ad campaign?
Well that’s what I think of each time I read about AeroDili.
But where’s the Dill pickle with the Dili burger? Fries and rice – a luxury! Great review series.
This is why I often find European business nice. They don’t feel a need to move pax up from Y. Thus, I’ve been the only person in a 3 row, 2-2 E190 EB section. Extra seat width (for me) is unimportant if there is nobody else in the row. AF will now/soon (if I rember correctly) be blocking out some seats in the E series in EB. Even better.
Oof. Regional European Business class is not ‘nice’… it’s economy with a blocked middle and a meal, usually. Really should be classified as Economy Plus.
Dili has a real business class with recliners. Totally different.
Headline could have been “Rich white American flies in luxury in the 3rd world while local peasants sit in the back envious of him getting food”.
Or now you know how Rosa Parks felt.
The right thing to do would have been to find the saddest looking person in coach and offer to switch seats with them.
But hey, the grift has to keep rolling on while you enjoy your hobby as the family sits home. Maybe you should cry about the price of steel some more showing us how it’s “destroying” your life and business to make us feel bad for you.
Sounds harsh, but let’s face it, unless you aren’t discussing the required business aspects of this trip, it was totally selfish. You truly are a mystery wrapped in an enigma. And a man child that appears to never have grown up, not that there’s anything wrong with that.
I’ve been called worse.
Oh I’m sure, probably in German by your wife while you are out frolicking in the 3rd world while she’s holding the household down as both a parent and an employee. Ah, just the cost of marrying a rich American lawyer I guess.
Are you envy Edwards? You spew always these bitter comments. Looks like your wife holds you tight on the leash and this is the only space you allowed to get out of the doghouse 🙂
Nah, I just find it funny with all his accomplishments and living in the hot bed of DC for years he couldn’t find an American woman. Come on, as a lawyer working in the White House I’m guessing he had his pick of highly educated women but they all saw him as not husband or father material and moved on.
So he got older and ended up with a highly attractive foreigner and they both got what they needed, IE a marriage of convenience. Nothing wrong with that, he gets to travel the world on his dollars and she stays home working, managing the kids.
She’s his Melania.
He is so bitter he comes off as a sad lonely troll who has to visit website he seems to despise and an owner he seems to nothing but contempt for just to have some sort of interaction with anyone.
He couldn’t get a rise by going after Matthew in his opening comment so now his tactic is to go after Matthew’s wife. How sad.
Ain’t no peasants flying Aerodili. It’s expensive. 500-550$ RT in economy for 2 hours of flight each way. lol
Fare is matched on Citilink as well
“Headline could have been “Rich white American flies in luxury in the 3rd world while local peasants sit in the back envious of him getting food”
I know facts are meaningless to you but on Matthew’s previous flight on this same airline in economy he was served a meal.
Oh I’ll bet if you were on that flight, the men would have definitely got “serviced”.
Clip clop. Clip clop. Clip Clop.
What’s that sound? Why it’s the sound of one trick pony “Dave The Nazi Edwards!”
And my the way, I’ve been very clear over the years on the mixing of American and non Americans, especially when it comes to having kids. I don’t feel they are US citizens, even if born here. Obviously I don’t make the laws so my opinion doesn’t matter but I’ve been very honest about it here.
I actually like Matt, even if he doesn’t like me, and enjoy much of what he posts here, just not the 3rd world sh#thole stuff. And yes, I think it’s strange he leaves his wife and kids at home to travel on these follies.
Just like you are allowed to get 18+ year old men to stick their c#ck in your ass, I’m allowed to have an opinion. The difference is your people killed Ryan White with your lusts while I didn’t.
Lol you really are a dumb pile of bovine fecal matter, right? You do know that unless you are a native indigenous American, all your blood and dna comes from somewhere else, right?
Saying Matthew doesn’t like you is nice way to try and deflect from the clear behavior you have exhibited on here in terms of disliking Matthew and his site. All those follies of his help pay the bills. Ot’s what traveling workers do.
You might like them that young Davey boi but some uf prefer our men 40+.
And yes you are entitled to your opinions. Just like we are entitled to point out how BS most (if not all of them) are.
And my people didn’t kill Ryan White. But yours were definitely involved in a few lynchings I am sure.
I enjoy reading about Mathew’s experiences. It’s a travel blog. If it’s not for you, why read it and take time to respond? Thank you Mathew
The thirst trap pics continue…. I would have booked seat 1B! 😉
haha yes i was gonna comment cute pic so you didn’t have 2 meals???
I could have had both, but I had just had breakfast and then had lunch and I certainly didn’t need a third meal!
Douchebag Dave: re: “my opinion doesn’t matter” in all the worthless vile crap you post, that’s the only thing you got right. Unfortunately, there aren’t words in the English language to describe your infinitely low level of human behavior. The fact that you waste so much of your time posting here, where you have zero credibility, speaks volumes. You really should get the psychiatric or addiction therapy you so obviously and desperately need.
Douchebag Dave Edwards, proving with your every (too frequent) comment that your nickname is absolutely accurate and completely deserved and that you have nothing better to do with your pathetic waste-of-oxygen life than to post abhorrent and revolting comments here over and over again every single day. Thank you for confirming once again that you and other MAGAs are stupid hateful racist cretins. Trolling or not, the extent and frequency of your comments are indicative of severe psychiatric and/or addiction problems. Your insults, undoubtedly projection, speak much more to your lack of character than to anyone you attack. Hope you get deported back to whatever rock you crawled out from you SHPOS.
Douchebag Dave Edward’s, you f-cking Nazi, you deserve to suffer the same fate as your beloved Nazi leader. (Obviously you’re too stupid to know it but Adolf Hitler killed himself while hidden in an hole underground.)
Only Jew haters left are the LEFT. They have embraced Hamas and hate the Jewish people.
The left is filled with hate, just like you toward fhose you disagree with. Read what you post here and it’s obvious the one that needs help is you.
Very strange obsession you have with me. It’s right up there with Aaron’s infatuation with hairless men on their 18th birthday.
You really are dumber than a pile of bricks.
People on the left have not embraced Hamas, they are supportive of the Palestinian people. I know that is a bit more nunanced than you myopic brain is used to. Also the left isn’t the one full of hate, that’s your side, with the lynching and hate crimes and political violence…
Also you’re the one who seems to keep bringing up hairless men on their 18th birthday on here, not me, so clearly you’re the one who is obsessed with them, Davey boi.
I see Douchebag Dave has posted another comment. Since I don’t read 99% of what he writes, could someone else please let me know if he wrote anything of significance or anything that it’s actually true.