As the war in Ukraine grinds on and Russian carriers continue to face sanctions, it seems that the premium cabin experience is holding up just fine. Here’s an Aeroflot A350 business class trip report from an Aeroflot flight attendant.
Aeroflot A350 Business Class Trip Report From An Aeroflot Flight Attendant
I’ve long wanted to travel on this jet but Aeroflot has been suspended from SkyTeam and no longer flies to the United States or Europe. More importantly, I would not want to indirectly support the Russian regime by flying Aeroflot or stepping foot in Russia right now.
So that leaves me to watch and read the Aeroflot reports of others. Yesterday, an Aeroflot A350-900 business class review popped up in my Instagram feed from an Aeroflot flight attendant. She was on SU1703 from Vladivostok (VVO) to Moscow (SVO), a domestic flight in the Russian Federation of nearly nine hours.
Her short video showcases just about all aspects of the onboard product, including the seat, bedding, meals, IFE, lavatory, and other amenities onboard.
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On the one hand, her video certainly seems like an advertisement for Aeroflot:
So today I get a dose of dopamine from flying my beloved Aeroflot on the brand new A350. I’m not trained to fly this plane, so this was the first time I had the opportunity to fly this incredible bird🧡
From the moment I boarded, I was already pleasantly impressed, because everything was so beautiful, big and comfortable. I almost started squealing with delight😂
Took up my window seat and got to enjoy the full range of treats from a private cabin, to a book and a movie with a lovely lunch ☕️
Now I understand why passengers love this plane so much, I could only hear about it))
I can say responsibly, this is the best comfortable plane in our company🥰
But I still appreciated the chance to understand a bit more about what it is like to fly Aeroflot today. Quite honestly, it looks great.
And it’s a helpful reminder that while Russian men are being blown up on a foolish adventure in Ukraine, most of Russian life proceeds as if nothing is out of the ordinary.
Let the comments begin!
And then, she will check in in a decrepit motel in Moscow hahahaha
No Borscht for you!!!
Ah yes, I’m sure that the smokin hot Russian babe (who works for Aeroflot) is good for an objective and unbiased review. LOL! Nice eye candy, I’ll say that. Too bad her people are evil and will burn in hell.
Agitprop
I’d take this “review” with massive grains of salt. Sounds like classic Russian Propaganda. Back in the days of the USSR they used to have show stores etc where they would take westerners to show them how wonderful everything was in the workers paradise. Of course it was all a sham.
Did the plane have brakes?
LOL.
This is what eastern European flight attendants look like. US carriers unfortunately have no standards.
Well, the US stopped viewing flight attendants as sex objects long ago. For good reason. I don’t care what a person looks like when they are saving my life. I’m sure you would agree.
That’s because the unions in the 70s forced protectionism of a lifelong ‘career’ when there’s never a true shortage of young people with the limited initial skills needed to be a flight attendant and desire to handle tough schedules
Yeah, it’s sooooooooo much better now. Who needs pretty girls when you have middle aged obese lardballs and grandmothers?
I flew Singapore Airlines business class the other day, with their gorgeous and classy FAs and could not believe how much better the experience was than the lifers on United
…says the invisible person who hides behind an anonymous screen name to whine at strangers online about what they think is “beautiful” (not to mention your irrelevant political views). Bro, your juvenile ranting shtick wore out long ago.
And yet it seems to get a reaction out of you.
Correct. My reaction is laughing at how lame you are using someone’s personal travel blog to air your irrelevant grievances because you’re too lazy to start your own.
I’m laughing because it seems to offend you so much.
These aren’t mere “flight attendants” they’re real stewardesses. Something that cannot be said for our western equivalents.
Weird. I can’t understand why she is trying to showcase Aeroflot. It almost seems like a advertisement as you say but I wonder if it was also intended as a slap in the face at the West. In any case, the same won’t be said when the aircraft is not fit for operations. IF the sanctions work in the long term.
Don’t overthink it. Yes to the latter point, but her motive is probably just impressing her local friends.
@ T
” a slap in the face” is exactly what agitprop is intended to do. It’s a combination of the Russian word for agitation & propaganda. ( invented by the Russian for media and the arts mostly). I am pretty sure they have a department that funds such endeavors. And probably why Matthew received it. Ugh
So you hit the nail on the head with your take on this weird clip
Looks the same as it did in 2019, post the 2016 sanctions
Food using Russian sourced ingredients, rather limited in scope, but pleasant enough, same with the liquor
Now who is maintaining those Airbus parts…
We can only hope that it will end like this Ural Airlines flight a few days ago. Hopefully more efficiently – in terms of getting rid of fascists.
> Here’s an Aeroflot A350 business class trip report from an Aeroflot flight attendant…
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ED’S NOTE: Watch your disgusting language you foolish tool.
You people are losers, really. The amount of venom I see for the Russian people, most of whom have nothing to do with the war in Ukraine, is pathetic. You’re the real fascists. Get a life.
I feel bad for the Russian people and have no animosity toward them. After all, I blindly supported the Iraq War like an idiot in 2003. I just wish they would wake up and depose their dictator. But I speak from self-interest, of course.
A lot of us supported it because we were lied to and had no idea of the disaster it would turn into. By the logic of many of these commenters, we deserve to die for that.
The people in the comments need to know that Russian people are people first, Russians second.
I bear no ill will for the Russian people specifically.
But it can’t be ignored that they are going along with this war with its all too well-known results. You also can’t ignore that Russian Soldiers on a mass scale have been guilty of utterly atrocious war crimes. You also can’t ignore that this war is being driven by a single psychopath who continues to press forward even when it’s obvious he has failed.
There is a collective guilt in Germany about its Nazi past which is a good thing because that hopefully means it will never happen again. From what I’ve read this remains true today even amongst the generation that wasn’t even alive when the war ended. When the Ukrainian war ends hopefully it will also mean the end of Putin and the same kind of collective reckoning that changed Germany. Because the Russian people wouldn’t be where they are today if they hadn’t embraced Putin in the first place.
Calling people you disagree with “fascists” is what we would expect to hear from a 12 year old. *YAWN*
As Borat says… Very Nice!
At least the bubbly has plenty of fluid in it, unlike the hydraulics.
Mathew,
You should be ashamed to put article on Aeroflot. First it is promoting terrorist unlawful country. Second you don’t know quality of plane due to sanctions and missing spare parts.
I’m not “promoting” Aeroflot – I just found the review interesting.
You really did a review of this evil country’s airline? Douche.
Of course nobody lies to you now. The country where people support their president, because they believe in his values and moral principles must be evil. The country that has beautiful women must be ugly. Because only ugly flight attendants deserve to serve you. That is called inclusivity. You eat and have what you believe in. Russia just wants to protect Ukraine people from this garbage. It doesn’t need or want to impose it’s values on you. Sorry, too bad for you.
Lol. Share a trip report about a russian airline while calling out Air India for flying over Russia.
Unsurprisingly Matt doesn’t call out any of the other US owned companies which are still doing business in Mother Russia.
Typical Imperialist neo con hypocrisy.
Lol, one trick pony. Pathetic as usual.
@ Sergei
Good morning, I hope you you slept well. Are you the follow up to this little exercise in propaganda? Here to see if you can find some moron to believe your lies and stir up a bit of trouble? Oh and I am glad you think that skank “Flight Attendant” is beautiful. Because we prefer our flight attendants to be healthy enough not to need cheap ratty hair extensions. Maybe if she was fed properly (and over 16 years old) she wouldn’t need them? But of course we understand how important it is for you to protect Ukraine from itself, so maybe you forget to feed her. Anyway you stay in your playground and enjoy your wonderful life. That is until Putin decides you are expendable. I wish things were different, and I could help you, so I’ll pray for you instead.
Writing about SU A350 experience that is only available in Russia, is not something that has big influence in Western world. It is far from something that should add to “bucket list”. I understand those who consider it promoting current “we against us” KGB regime.
More important is to keep away, those “Stirlitz” from Western countries.
As example, the former Boardingarea Russian blogger( Igor Ermolaev, cariverga.com) is fundamental Western hater, pro war, pro current KGB regime, anti-Ukraine. He expresses that on his Telegram channel and in reviews. Yet, he lives in Hungary, travels around the world and lately started promoting Viruoso and other luxury hotel programs.
That kind of “””””” must be banned to live in EU and visit Western countries and added to sanctioned Z bloggers list.
And you guys worry about some SU flight attendant experience post in IG !? 🙂
Hey good V.V.P, thanks for checking in and let us know if there’s somebody else you want to throw under the bus. Always ready to listen.
Why are you comfortable supporting the U.S. regime right now? Hasn’t the U.S. government invaded multiple countries and killed millions in the Middle East over the last 22 years? What about European countries that criminalize speech and arrest christians for saying the Bible is the word of God?
Hello Matt. I can’t stop chuckling at the pleasant disposition of this Aeroflot FA and compare it to what happened when you took “unauthorized” photos years ago. 🙂 That being said, 2 cents observations about the sanctions and effects on life in Russia:
The Russians have adapted somewhat and McD’s and Ikea reopened somewhat with just rebranded Russian versions. They basically nationalized those operations and sold them off to cronies. The exodus of draft age men has meant an increase in wages for the ones that remain which in some ways is a good thing, but this is offset in inflation in food and other staples of life. We gripe about food prices in the states but it’s a much higher cost in Russia. In the states, we have a car shortage which is awful, but in Russia it’s incredible where access to quality foreign made cars is nearly at zero now. This leads to:
Like during the Soviet era, Russia has their own brands. LADAs are now harder to find, but at least available but… Russians will be patriotic but then flash all their western goods. They LOVE iPhones, Mercedes, and French branded cosmetics. Some of these brands even attempted to print out Russian versions of their brands but found that the Russians preferred the English/French/German versions because it showed quality.
My 88 year old father-in-law is doing well in Odessa and hasn’t shown an interest in permanently moving to the states (he enjoys his freedom) and his section of the town isn’t targeted. It’s strange that Russia bombs one of the most Russian language speaking cities in the country containing historical Russian sites. He uses the streetcar service (free for seniors). We want him to get paperwork in case he permanently stays with us but he’s old and putting it off. We hope maybe he’ll be here for the holidays. I want him to pack a few bags of all the family momentos for my wife for safe keeping (in general).
I visited Ukraine often during 2014-2022 when the war was technically still active in the east so we are considering visiting again, maybe as far as Lviv if only because I have a 7 year old daughter. There is friction here in the states: Our friend in Miami said that Ukrainians and Russians were getting into brawls at the supermarkets there so they moved to a less “conflict” region. One of the Klitschko’s lived in Miami himself a few years ago.
I miss Ukraine. They redid the Lviv and Odesa airports and were quite nice (although I like the charming Soviet airports in a way). Thank you for your kind sentiments.
Pretty arrogant conclusion considering American men were being blown up in Afghanistan for 20 years and continue being blown up on foolish adventures in Iraq, Syria (not to mention various Venezuelan and African missions) and of course most of US life proceeds as if nothing is out of the ordinary.
I think I made that very point in my comment above…so no, just because Russia is bad doesn’t mean the USA has made the same mistakes!
My wife often teared up when she saw the heartland American men dying in Afghanistan and Iraq. “What a waste!” she said.
Iraq and Afghanistan were about overthrowing dictators and theological extremists respectively and then giving those peoples’ an opportunity enjoy democracy where they could collectively decide what government they wanted. I don’t think Iraq has fallen but Afghanistan certainly has but it wasn’t “imperialism” on the USA’s part. If those wars were for oil, I didn’t see lower prices at the pump! They were sadly misguided attempts at democracy building or a political gripe by the Bush family, but not imperialism.
Now on the other hand… Ukrainians are defending their very cultural identity. Only a very small section (about 400 square miles or so) of Eastern Ukrainian were self-identifying “ethnic Russians” and the rest have identified as Ukrainian for more than 4 centuries. I invite folks reading this on their flight to bring along a copy of the Nobel prize winning novel “With Fire and Sword” about the Ukrainian national birth in the 17th century. It’s also a wonderful film and if you liked Conan the Barbarian, you’ll love it. HUGE non-CGI battle scenes! Matt, consider downloading it to your device and watching onboard if you have 3.5 hours to kill. It’s also a film your Germanic wife would enjoy in that it has a romance component. It has EVERYTHING for a date movie for a lady of taste!
Anyhoo, while there certainly are some Russian patriots who (believe) they are fighting to “liberate” “confused” Russians, the majority are economically disadvantaged ethnic Asians or miserable draftees. The actual patriots or even mercenary convicts have been used up for at least a half year. Ukraine’s counter-offensive is one of attrition looking to thin their lines rather than have a D-day style offensive that would cost tens of thousands of Ukrainian lives.
Ukraine’s best and brightest are fighting to (truly) liberate their occupied countrymen and it breaks our hearts. Matt, I hope when this is over you’ll accept our invitation for my father-in-law to show you around Odesa: The catacombs, the Potemkin stairs, and of course, Cheborik. Just let us know and he’ll meet you perhaps with an English speaking youngster and you’ll get the grand tour. Did you know the opera house is marble veneer since Catherine the Great’s money was wasted so they had to fool her? But it’s a lovely Opera House nonetheless. Also, my mother-in-law was attacked by a ghost that lived in a home nearby (true story.)
How can Russia maintain operative their airplanes? Thanks to some friendly nations, expecially UAE, where money is money, whatever it comes from. UAE has bought even the sukhoi superjet program, so they can build airplanes for Russia with “forbidden” European components
https://www.pravda.com.ua/eng/news/2023/09/12/7419552/
Am I the only one bored with the whole Russia-Ukraine thing,it’s their war,if they want it let them have it.P.S. to Poland ,country of my heritage,6 th biggest economy in the EU,you’re doing great,mind your own business.
Asa, aside from Russia having attacked Poland 3 times in the past century (today’s the 84th anniversary of Russia attacking Poland, and other Baltic states, claiming to be protecting “ethnic minorities”), Poland has a close ethnic kinship with Ukraine. Poland has moved on from seeing Lviv as a “Polish city” but nonetheless cares deeply for that city’s, and Western Ukrainian inhabitants. There are 1.5 million Ukrainian refugees in Poland.
Please either read the Nobel prize winning novel “With Fire and Sword” or watch the (excellent) movie to (begin to) understand Polish-Ukrainian relations going back 400 years.
Low is also the city where Ukrainians dress up in nazi garb and have medieval torchlit marches honoring Dtepam Bandera the Ukrainians hero who initiated that Wolyn genocide that claimed the lives of over 100,000 Polish civilians,mostly woman and children,still after billions in aid and humanitarian relief refusing any apology for the genocide.Lwow has monuments honoring Bandera and his goons while the ukrainian government issued Bandera commemorative stamps.Zelensky even lied about the misfired rockets that killed Polish civilians so Duda invites him to Belvedere palace and bestows Polands highest honour on him.Like wtf are you thinking!
Wrong.Polish are purely European whereas Ukrainians and Russians are Eurasians.We don’t understand their savagery and need to stop inserting our goodwill in their senseless battles.I personally knew Poles whose parents were axed to death at Wolyn by Ukrainians for the crime of being Polish.Nazi officers even complained about Ukrainian beastiality towards Polish woman and children. Being married to a Ukrainian doesn’t give you the right to whitewash history.Russia like Germany.isu no longer Polands enemy, Ukraine isnot my brother and I’m going to pretend Poland is Sweden,offer humanitarian aid only.