Dear all,
Although the flight was very unspectacular and although that I have no pic´s I like to share my experience with you because it´s not what we call a often seen routing
Well, starting at Cornavin (Geneva Main Train station) I took the Regional Train to the airport which was a 7 minute hop directly into the terminal.
I had to go upstairs and then over the street to reach MY Terminal which I could find very easily also the Lufthansa quick Check-In Automates and first time after I putted into my FrequentFlyer Card a Canadair Regional Jet popped up and I could decide between to green seats one on aisle row 6 and another window seat row 11 which I choosed (11F). the automate gaves me back a paper return receipt and my boarding pass (LH 3707 Boarding Time 19:00 departure Time 19:30 11 A CRJ1) Afterwards I ran around a bit on the shopping mall, but didn´t buy anything and entered the passport controll, which seems to be the same for swiss and french sector because after there was a sign Terminal F French sector right side and left the swiss Sector with all other Terminals (my flight was B31).
Entered the duty free shop and bought some cigarettes and was looing for a restaurant to have a beer (1664 very tasteful but like always on airports overpriced).
The way from A to B was quite long but the whole airport seems to me very modern and friendly. In front of B31-B34 was the security control where only ONE Counter was opened so there was a huge queue and some guys asked if they could enter the queue in front because their flight with Virgin Express to Brussels was still boarding .... no prob ...
nothing happened during security control (no beep
) and I waited in the smokers area for boarding.Boarding was done 19:15 instead of 19:00 but it was VERY QUICK
our CRJ ACJG was waiting nearly under the roof of the terminal and we could enter it by out own (no finger, no bus boarding
).Hand luggage should be delivered at aircraft and the staff looked very careful that nobody took Trolley directly on board, but everybody who knows a CRJ knows why
Row 11 is the row without a window but I could see a bit out of the window before or behing so no prob
Captain Schaefer and his crew welcomed us onboard, anouncements were done in german, french and english from the F/A and not from tape - quite nice.
"Push back" was done on time and after a nice takeoff (over Geneva, where you could see the lights of the city very impressive) they began with the catering, in a ECO a chabiatta with cheese or ham (I took cheese and it was more tasteful then the usual LH sandwhiches) and one drink of your choice. OK for a 1hour and 10 minutes hop.
We flew over luxembourg where we had some turbulences (it´s very nice in a CRJ I like it a lot
) and finally after we began our descent to Dusseldorf. Landing was very smooth and early but during the taxi we lost most of the time we had won on the air, reached parking position at 20:46 instaed of arrival time in DUS of 20:50. I was number two on the passport control so I left the airport only ten minutes or so after we reached our final parking position - all at once a very nice experience Hope you enjoyed the report and feel free to ask questions
Jutta.
PS: it was too dark for good pic´s
