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Taken January 2005 from Manchester, England (Ringway International Airport) - MAN to Taba

We flew with Astraeus Airlines from Manchester to Taba, which is a 5.5 hour flight.

We checked with the Astraeus website first to follow advice before traveling. We did everything right, we arrived at the airport very early for check-in, requested emergency exit seats for the extra legroom, and were told that this was fine and that appropriate seats had been allocated to us. This is when the good bit ended.

We were taken to a Boeing 737 and our seats (26a/b) were not at an emergency exit, but were in fact the very last row at the rear of the plane against the bulkhead. The legroom was tiny and these seats, being against the bulkhead were bolt upright and would not recline at all, but the seats in front did recline, right into the already restricted passenger space of our seats.

The in-flight entertainment, which you would normally expect on a medium/long haul flight was non existent. There was no radio or tv facilities on board.

The in flight meal was average, and the cabin crew seemed insensitive to our needs/comfort.

This type and size of aircraft is, in my opinion inappropriately equipped for such a flight, and I would strongly urge people to consider this before booking the Manchester to Taba flight.

Our return flight to the UK was delayed by 10.5 hours with no compensation offered by Astraeus.

I will not fly with Astraeus again and would not recommend this airline to others.