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Flight to Sharm El Sheikh, Egypt on UIA charter, 2020

Самолет МАУ в Египет

I chose a direct flight from Kyiv to Sharm El Sheikh, which is only available by charter flights from tour operators. This time I bought a flight with UIA from Pegas Touristik due to the combination of price and departure time (arrival there early in the morning, departure back in the evening).

To reduce the number of contacts during the flight, I paid 18 euro per person to select a seat in the first row of the aircraft. I also hoped that in the 1st row it would be more convenient for me to sleep at least a little, because the flight was at night.

From Kyiv, online check-in for UIA charter flights is available on their website, and thanks to this we arrived at the airport with printed boarding passes.

Even despite the difficult viral time, nothing changes: people still line up in a huge, tight line to board the plane 🙂 This always surprised me, and now even more. What has changed is that there are now more buses taking passengers to the planes than before. There are now 2 times less people on the bus. Everyone has masks, but few wear them as it has to be, and even fewer people wear respirators.

There was also a queue at the entrance to the plane, because everyone measures the temperature.

Flight attendants now look completely ugly: wearing protective suits over their uniforms, a hair cap, masks and shields or goggles.

Бортпроводник рейса МАУ

We took off on schedule, take off was excellent and smooth. We flew quietly, in the first row it was comfortable and I was even going to sleep a little, but then some of the passengers felt bad and the light was turned on in the cabin. As a result, I could not sleep.

During the flight, all passengers were given a questionnaire that had to be filled out and shown upon arrival in Sharm el Sheikh (an innovation in connection with the fight against the virus). The questionnaire contains information about your name, hotel where you stay, passport number and health status.

Arrived on schedule, landing was excellent, which made everyone very happy.

Upon arrival, all passengers were again lined up in the Sharm el Sheikh terminal, where we were first checked health questionnaire and asked to fill out if something went wrong, and then we were measured the temperature with a device that hung on the wall. This line impressed us greatly: no distance and no problems 🙂

Аэропорт Шарм эль Шейха

Then, as usual, everyone with package tours lined up at the desks of tour operators, we immediately went to the border control, where we took and immediately filled out the usual visa application forms (name, passport, hotel of stay).

We did not wait for luggage for a long time and quickly went to our first hotel, which I have already started talking about.

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