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hello and welcome to another video today I am at Villa Campos Airport here in
Campinas next to Sao Paulo this is actually sound Paolo's third airport and
this is where Azul airlines have their main operating base that's why I'm
flying with today I'm flying with Azul back from South Paola can PS to Lisbon
and Portugal it's gonna be out nine to nine and a half hours in business class
I'm really looking forward to it this is a rather different airline for a few
reasons let's go check it out by Road vericose
is over an hour from Sao Paulo but as they lay on a free bus whether you're
traveling in business or economy class the bus drops you right outside the
terminal and your bags travel in a locked compartment underneath the seats
there's no need and in fact no way to book the bus you just turn up and get on
my bus was not particularly busy and I think there's a very low risk of you not
being able to get on board I was actually quite surprised to find that
Villa Capas Airport was historically the original main International Airport of
Sao Paulo the main airport now is at Guara and
that opened in 1985 one thing I should say if you're flying from here is to go
down to the basement the arrivals level because this is where most of the places
worth eating and drinking are it is not particularly well signposted
if you come in at street level check-in was completely painless and took only a
couple of minutes business class check-in was absolutely
deserted there's also an adult lounge which is located on the first floor
immediately after security I think it's important to stress before I get into
this trip report the Azal are not a legacy airline they're a relatively new
entrant to the market as such they pitch their product and their pricing a fair
bit below the competition in order to attract a different market so don't
expect any hot meals in the lounge or a particularly inspiring range of food and
drink in all honesty my flight was over nine hours long so I was planning to eat
on board anyway there's no compelling need for preflight dining here
so it's far from being the world's best business class lounge but to be honest
it's a perfectly adequate place to hang out for an hour before your flight
departs just heading down now to gate a zero eight for my flight to Lisbon now
walking around this international arm of the airport I can't help but notice
there are only three international flights departing this evening my one to
Lisbon one behind me to Pato and another one to Fort Lauderdale in Florida now
this Airport have as Google Inge vitako past airport and latest two things
firstly the reason this airport the International arm is so quiet is because
there's a recession on in Brazil that it's just working its way out of at the
moment and that means this air but hasn't been able to attract the traffic
then it was originally supposed to the second interesting thing that I found
out about this airport is the name of Erica post means to turn over glasses in
quick succession according to Wikipedia now Lucy translated that means to get
drunk or to consume a lot of alcohol at once and I think that's one of the best
names for an airport I've ever heard another one that really comes to mind is
the name of Sophia's Airport which is in of cours de Bona in Bulgaria just
outside Sofia Alvares Deb nur is a town and that basically means hostile which
is definitely the other end of the scale for airport names and that's a bit of
trivia for you just waiting for priority boarding to happen and yeah looking
forward to getting on board and finding out what this unique airline is all
about my flight today would be operated by this airbus a330 and a special blue
livery
a quick reminder that you can catch all of my trip reports in written format on
simple flying the link to the article is in the description below
okay thank you business-class occupies the front cabin and is in a staggered
one-to-one configuration true window seats like this one here for a are the
best ones to have because they offer optimum privacy however I was stuck in
5c which is one which adjoins the aisle
there was a pre-flight choice of wine water or orange juice and a small
chocolate serve before takeoff
takeoff was brisk and smooth and into a beautiful Brazilian sunset Lisbon is
four thousand nine hundred and eight miles from Vero coppice and the flying
time of this flight was nine hours and 25 minutes the type of seat used in
business class is called the serger mer solstice seat and you can find this on
various other airlines including Etihad it isn't the most up-to-date seat on the
market but what I do like about this seat is the fact that you can move your
seat forward to meet the table rather than the other way around there's also
in seat charging and this little device here is the remote control for
controlling the in-flight entertainment screen as all is a Brazilian airline
most of its market comprises the domestic Brazilian aviation market and
also in connecting Brazil with its cultural cousins in Portugal however it
does also operate some flights to the US and that means there's an extensive
english-language selection of film and TV shows however don't expect miracles
from the headphones my friend Jeb Brooks is probably the person you're going to
want to speak to if you want some decent ones sadly as all has yet to fit its
aircraft with Wi-Fi özil was founded by David Neil ermine the same person that
founded JetBlue in the US the commitment to enthusiastic and personal service was
obvious to see the cabin crew working mile gave me exactly the same kind of
enthusiastic service that I come to expect from JetBlue who are my favorite
US domestic carrier all of that being said I can't say that the food was a
particular highlight on board this flight if you followed my channel for a
while you'll know that this year I've flown quite a few international business
class products and I've been really impressed in general with the standard
of food there was I think particularly wrong with the food on board özil but it
didn't really live up to the heights offered by some of the main legacy
airlines that I've tried there was nothing in particular that was
wrong with the food but I have to say that I won't remember these dishes much
beyond making this video still I was pretty happy to see ice
cream as a dessert option because that is supposed to be something you can't
get wrong isn't that right Delta Airlines
as all handout amenity kits in business class on all of their long-haul flights
and the bag is reasonably attractive and pretty well stocked in fact with all of
the things that you would expect on a long-haul flight talking of toiletries
the toilet itself was very clean throughout the flight the little blue
light at the bottom of the console there is a little nod an inexpensive one -
towards the companies color scheme I spent the rest of the evening watching
this secret life of walter mitty starring Ben Stiller my advice for this
film is to avoid it like the plague soon it was time to turn in for the night and
one of the benefits of these solstice seats is a fact there's plenty of
storage so if you change into a pyjamas like I do there's plenty of room to
shove your clothes into one of the storage units in common with many
airlines now there's no turndown service in business class so you need to lie
your sleep fat yourself and pop out the bedding which is pretty easy to do
however there's no sheet or mattress topper provided I was a bit worried that
having an aisle seat I'd be disturbed during the night but thankfully this
didn't happen and the seat was really comfortable and perfectly wide enough
for me to get a solid six hours of sleep which is what I asked for on a long
flight
about an hour from Lisbon I was woken by the crew as I requested for my breakfast
the mood lighting was turned an attractive orange a pink to resemble the
dawn and to get at one's body clocks back in sync breakfast just like dinner
was fine and inoffensive but in equal measure
completely unmemorable with breakfasts I often used the same principle as ice
cream I try and pick the dish that I think is the least likely to go wrong in
this case it was an omelet so let me conclude this video with a summary I
paid nine hundred and 50 euros one way for this flight which was from Sao Paulo
there are coppers to Lisbon and then on to London with tap air Portugal a
codeshare partner of Azul now this is really really cheap it equates to around
eight hundred and fifty five pound sterling or about 1,050 US dollars that
price is extremely cheap in the grand scheme of things and so I'm perfectly
happy that my experience with özil was mostly okay there was nothing in
particular that was wrong with the experience and although the experience
itself didn't hit the heady heights of some of the business class products I've
tried this year that's fine because it was an awful lot cheaper
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