Aeroflot via Moscow and Amsterdam have come up cheapest on short-fuse travel itinerary for later this month. It's a code-share with KLM and the latter provides the planes to/from Amsterdam/Moscow. So how are Aeroflots A330's on the longer sector now they have been Skyteam members for a while? I read that SVO isn't the best of Moscow's two airports. Any valid opinions on that as a transit airport?

Thanks,

NL

PS I flew them last out of BKK in 1979 so no need for references based on similar era travel experiences... but it sounds like Delhi hasn't changed much!

In 2006 i flew ams-svo-bkk and b-s-a i remember the return flight i had to wait through the night 10 hours for my connection i slept on some newspapers on the floor. SVO airport aired very criminal and had axorbitant high priced food and drink. The only good thing about svo were the russian ladies selling high class goods for low class prices.

Well that was not a good thing but the girls surely looked good.

The price back then was E850 all in. It includes the fairly safe airbus 330 from amst to svo, sure.

BUT SVO-BKK you will get the in(famous) II.. let me check, coincidentally i have the aircraft emergency card from that paricular plane and i hung it on me wall. Yes an II-96-300.

Now that's an experience by itself.

China-Airlines/Eva air. Maybe pay more but once you flew with them you know for sure you get your money's worth.

I hope i could be of some assistance, yours..

Yeah China airlines are very good.

In 2006 i flew ams-svo-bkk and b-s-a i remember the return flight i had to wait through the night 10 hours for my connection i slept on some newspapers on the floor. SVO airport aired very criminal and had axorbitant high priced food and drink. The only good thing about svo were the russian ladies selling high class goods for low class prices.

Well that was not a good thing but the girls surely looked good.

The price back then was E850 all in. It includes the fairly safe airbus 330 from amst to svo, sure.

BUT SVO-BKK you will get the in(famous) II.. let me check, coincidentally i have the aircraft emergency card from that paricular plane and i hung it on me wall. Yes an II-96-300.

Now that's an experience by itself.

China-Airlines/Eva air. Maybe pay more but once you flew with them you know for sure you get your money's worth.

I hope i could be of some assistance, yours..

Thanks for that info. The SVO layovers are less than 3 hours and the websites confirm that there's no Ilyushin's on this route any more, all A330's.

read airlinequality.com

I wanted to travel using them but have an exceptionally long stop over from ZRH to BKK via SVO.

There long haul motors are extremely cramped in economy on the 2 times I used them although not recently.......that was on 777's so maybe the Airbus are configured differently.....

Nothing wrong with Delhi now......upgraded and very appealing and refurbished