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well hello guys I am so tired to start
off this video I'm in the airport right
now it's about 8 p.m. my flight is
leaving an hour and a half and I thought
maybe like 5 or 6 hours of sleep last
night and it's gonna be a red-eye flight
to blood you must suck I'm gonna get
there like 6:00 a.m. but I really did
want to film this video because this is
actually going to be my second flight
with s7 Airlines I flew with them from
Astana to Novosibirsk to here and I mean
it was a good flight like it's so far a
good airline but since this is a longer
flight I kind of wanted to give this
airline a bit of a more in-depth review
because I actually didn't know that
Aeroflot which is probably most well
known in Russia as the main airline is
actually kind of on par with s7 I
thought Aeroflot was kind of like above
everybody else but a lot of locals have
actually told me that s7 is considered
to be a really good airline here in
Russia and one thing that I was reading
in my Lonely Planet guide book is that
if you come here you should actually be
very careful to not take these smaller
lesser-known sort of Airlines because
unfortunately there are quite a few
accidents that usually happen with these
types of companies because they really
don't have a lot of experience and you
know the prices are lower but you're
really putting your well life at risk
most likely so s7 is considered to be a
very good airline here in Russia so is
Aero fluff so those are probably the two
that I would recommend if you are gonna
be flying in Russia so today I want us
to do a review about s7 because I feel
like we really never hear about them and
one thing I just want to mention about
luggage with s7 especially for your
carry-on is that they are very
particular like I almost had to pay
extra my first time because I had a
backpack and this guy and that was just
not okay like your main piece of
carry-on has to for sure be under 10
kilograms and then your second piece
cannot be bigger than a purse because
they will give you trouble so today I
brought a purse I brought this bag and
they let me on fine and also if you are
checking baggage unless you have a
higher class rate you will have to pay
extra for baggage
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so bad news guys our flight got delayed
for basically three and a half hours it
is 12
my focused I don't even know I am so
tired it's like 12:30 right now and
apparently is gonna board around 1 a.m.
meaning that we're gonna get in at like
10 a.m. instead of 6 a.m. like we
thought and all of that technically
doesn't bother me but it's just I'm so
sleep-deprived it literally just want to
get on that plane and sleep so if we
could do that that'd be great and ask
for the review of s7 here like I know
that you can't really be angry at
Airlines for having delays like it's as
complicated of a system as you can
probably imagine to run an airline with
all the different things that go on but
this is my second flight of two with s7
and both have been delayed now and both
have been basically like three four-hour
delays so might be a coincidence but
literally two out of two
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well this review is definitely not off
to a good start we got some bad news
where we were supposed to leave at
basically 1:00 a.m. and all of a sudden
they just like stopped that and changed
it till 2:45 8:00 a.m. so that's
basically six hours later than we were
supposed to leave and the part that's
confusing is that they're saying that
the planes are here and like they're
fine but we just can't take off I
honestly like don't understand what's
happening there's constantly a huge
group of people talking to the people at
the counter about like changing their
flights so everything's just chaos the
whole airport is just like totally
packed there are so few places to sit
down and what's so annoying is that they
keep changing it literally before the
time that we think we're going to go so
like I'll go sit down at a cafe and then
I'll kind of finish up or you know we're
supposed to leave in 15-20 minutes and
then they change it I lose my spot in
the cafe and now once again I'm like
standing don't have a place to sit and
you know God knows if I'm going to get
out of here tonight
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you guys I feel like I just had an
international two-day sort of trip where
I did not get any sleep and feel just
like crap and the first thing you want
to do as soon as you get to your hotel
or hostel is take a shower which I just
did as you guys saw in the footage we
didn't get out until 2:30 a.m. so five
hours later than we were supposed to and
I was already five hours early to the
airport because like I had a checkout
time at my other hostel and just felt
like oh I'll just edit a video that'll
be fun that would be great and that
turned into half a day at the airport
and then after that it is about five and
a half hour flight from Novosibirsk
to Vladivostok like literally a red-eye
I had red eyes after this flight but to
summarize how I feel about the whole s7
Airlines experience I mean with the two
experiences that I've had so far
unfortunately maybe they just were the
luck of the draw
and we're not that positive both having
a three-hour delay and then the other
now having a five-hour delay and
unfortunately they don't even really
like compensate you in any way like all
they did last night was hand out water
and a couple little snacks you know for
people to eat because people were
getting like pissed and I feel like in
most other countries and I know you
can't compare country to country like
Russia obviously a very different
country than Canada and you know what
companies are willing to do for their
people and how much compensation they're
willing to give is quite different but I
feel like in Canada if you had something
like that happen and it was especially
like into the am sort of hours they for
sure would give you a travel credit or
they give you some actual meal vouchers
or they say they could reschedule you
and like give you a hotel or something
because nobody wants to you know sit at
the airport for five six hours when
they've already been there for so long
so that
didn't happen with s7 and I actually
didn't even film so much when we were on
the actual plane because I was so
exhausted and couldn't even really think
straight or function and it was kind of
dark so it was hard to film the food and
all that kind of stuff but I will just
say it's nothing special like for our
supper or breakfast I don't even know
what meal you want to call it at that
hour it kind of gave us this like
macaroni dish which was not the best and
some chicken in there that I did not
want to touch because it well I mean I
don't really like to eat me but it did
not look good and then they gave you
like two buns and the best part of it
was that they gave you a KitKat bar a
full size Kit Kat bar so that was like
the best part of the meal they don't
offer any kind of you know fancy drinks
like any kind of wine or specialty type
of stuff it's basically just like pop
water coffee and tea that's about it
there's also no entertainment system as
far as I saw I thought there actually
might be one because this was a longer
haul flight I assumed my first one that
was like an hour and a half maybe didn't
have one because most short-haul flights
are kind of limited in their
entertainment but since this was more of
a longer haul one I don't know they
didn't have that either so I'm not
trying to hate on them I understand I
can't really compare them and like
Emirates you know it's a very different
category of Airlines in a very different
category of service I think just for a
basic airline day you know they do as
good of a job as anyone and even though
there was all the delays the staff was
super nice you could see that they were
trying their best and asked somebody
who's worked in the service industry I
know how hard it is when things go wrong
and people are mad so it's definitely
not their fault but I wish that s7 as a
company would kind of compensate their
passengers more when they have these
kinds of big inconveniences because I
honestly don't even know why our flight
was as delayed as it was they never even
like told us they just give a quick
apology once we were already on the
plane and that's kind of it but if I did
have to give s7 a grade let's say
B C D F I think I would give them a C
because they do have like a passable
track record they are well known you
know they get the basics done they would
graduate so to say but as far as being a
B of like having some nice nicer
amenities you know kind of taking the
extra sort of step I don't think they
really can compete with other airlines
in that and then anybody that would get
an A would obviously be like exemplary
service going above and beyond like
being the game-changer in the sort of
industry so obviously they're not there
but they pass so if you are looking for
an airline s7 is fine it's okay it was
an overall good experience like maybe
I'd have a better one if I went with
them again so only time will tell but
yeah I hope you guys enjoyed this video
and it was helpful to you and gave you
an idea of what to make me expect if
you're going on airlines in Russia
already just walking from the bus to my
hostel I already get a really good
feeling about the city it looks like
there's a lot to do it's really unique
looking so I'm super excited stay tuned
there's gonna be so much good content
but until then I hope you guys are
having an amazing day keep being your
own kind of beautiful and I will see you
soon bye guys
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