DON'T FLY Eurowings Discover A330 - a cheap substitute you'll regret

Now there's nothing wrong with budget airlines. I should know; I weaned myself onto flying solo with Ryanair! What irks me is when a budget airline is a sub brand of a full service airline, which decided to pull its full service from the route, substitute it with the cheap nasty budget carrier, and kept the fares the same. This is not a good product, and that's even after I lucked out by taking the (unusual) A330 on this route, normally reserved for longer trips. Weird food, a big delay, tired, broken seats and cabin, rubbish IFE...yeah, I'd avoid this if I were you, especially as they run this exact aircraft and meal concept to far flung destinations like Windhoek and Mauritius! :-)

0:00 Intro
0:31 Check in and terminal
1:36 Fares stuff
2:43 VIP Lounge
5:01 AQRU integrated sponsor
6:37 Boarding Eurowings Discover A330
9:10 Taxi and take off
10:45 In the air
11:16 Seat tour
12:23 The weirdest meal I've been given for a while!
13:17 IFE woes
13:59 Loo (with no view)
14:24 Conclusions, landing, and thanks.

Date of Travel: 22 MARCH 2022
Airline: Eurowings Discover
Livery: Eurowings Discover standard
Route: LPA-FRA
Aircraft: Airbus A330-300
Flight Number: LH 4279 (as sold)
Miles: 1,979
Airborne time: 3h50m

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[philliphorsley]

I flew Gran Canaria to Frankfurt in October 2021 on the Eurowings Discover A330 in Economy, I wouldn’t have any issue travelling long haul in economy with this airline and found it very similar to other long haul economy set ups, even though the plane wasn’t new it was very well presented and didn’t look old. Service was very good especially considering it was a sub 4 hour flight.

[garyjeffries]

I loved your flight attendant you can tell her heart is on Thomas Cook

[billsfo]

By direct you mean Nonstop. Ex-Airline staff I am and when an Airline says a direct flight, it means one or more stops like for example an Original Frontier Airlines flight that flew direct ATL-ICT-ATL. It was a direct FL flight Denver to Atlanta but stopped in Wichita. Nonstop Denver to Wichita KS. We had another direct flight from GRI-LNK-OMA-PHX-TUS. This was a direct flight from Grand Island NB to Tucson. Nonstop from Omaha to Phoenix.

Love your channel. I correct you because I respect your channel. Calling a nonstop a direct flight is a common mistake. Alaska Airlines ad agency recently did it in SFO by calling a nonstop SFO-LAS a direct flight. Where does it stop? FAT.

[bricks]

Everyday I stray further from even bothering on Lufthansa group airlines. Intra europe I am Finnair all the way, the detour to Helsinki doesn’t even bother me because the flights are almost always better in terms of service/ quality. Great video!

[chakky]

Really hope you can do more budget and economy airlines/flights. I know they don't draw those hot views but for your returners, I think it's always a breath of fresh air amongst the deluge of business and first class videos.

[Superaviation]

I just flew from Fra to Mru yesterday with EWD! It was on one of the older LH A330's! The service though was even better than on LH flights! This cold food you were served is not the main meal on a long haul flight! It is the second before landing.

[mottyk]

A330s became the star attraction at SXM
It would be cool if attraction France and KLM flew 777 or 787 there
I miss the 747

[anjunakerry]

What a contrast to when we were there in October and November. Check in rammed. Flew back on Tui 787-9 G-tuil in October. Airport bus driver pointed out several hornets coming into land as we were waiting for others to board the bus that took us to our plane. Love this place and I don’t mind the airport either.

[jel]

That's a bit of a shocker, i see most airlines now cut costs. I went to Cape Verde (just short of 6 hours without delays from LGW) in March and for the first time in 7 trips there was no food included in the fare (i didn't see that advertised on the TUI website when i booked and i'd have had a very hearty lounge breakfast if i'd known). They were however selling hot food on the plane which was God damn awful. The wing i sat next to on the 787-9 Dreamliner on the way back had so much gaffer tape on it, i can't see how it was safe to fly.
Keep up the good work of exposing poor services and amenities Paul.

[truebrit]

The cascading down of older aircraft from a mainline fleet to a charter/low cost subsidiary is of course nothing new - one of my first flights was in a British Airtours 707 from Gatwick to Tangier. As you rightly say there are many question marks around this offering but properly done is this model how mainline airlines can compete against their lower cost brethren? After all the idea is only about 50 years old…

[karsnoordhuis]

I found gran canaria airport to be a pretty decent airport when i flew there in march. Pretty logically layed out and the security was super quick! Much faster than Groningen-Eelde where we were the only flight of the day. That Tui plane was pretty cramped though.

[lvthud]

If it makes you feel any better, last week BA served me fried rice in Club fried rice, they ran out of the protein (chicken) after 4 rows, yeah 40 J passengers were served fried it was a full fare ticket so as soon as I landed I killed the return leg and booked a VS flight instead.

[aitdirect]

I fly the London To LPA Gran Canaria route every year and how I miss Norwegian out of Gatwick on this route....was the best experience everytime and prices were very rarely above £120 RTN but now it's so volatile price wise year going with TAP via bit worried when you said they lost your luggage...only time will tell

[logicalthinking]

I just stick with BA across Europe in Club Europe (I know it’s not worth it on the A320s/A321s) but made the most of recent double tier points offers with BA holidays with the canaries and Greece offering 320 points return (double the usual 160). Regardless of inflated prices vs competitors, I won’t stop flying BA due to their service and Heathrow T5. Couldn’t imagine ever going back to the likes of easyJet etc now that I’m Gold

[countryside]

Paul you always make me pause when you touch the air plane ✈️ looking forward to Lufthansa 747❤️

[davidp]

Oh dear. Just before watching this video I watched Dennis Bunnik's Ryanair flight which was also awful. Haven't flown yet since the world opened up again and with the chaos at airports and the poor flight experiences people seem to be having I am still reluctant to get back on a plane. Thinking of resurrecting our Covid cancelled Canada trip next year but holding off booking it for another couple of months. At least there is one benefit from the Covid issue. Air Canada only operated their Rouge service from Manchester before the pandemic but now you can get the proper Signature service to Toronto. Hopefully it will still be available next year.

[dazlebluefrogify]

great honest video like always paul thank you, eurowings and lufthansa seem to be going like the big 3 in the states !!

[michasreisefieber]

The VIP Lounge wasn't that great when I went in 2019. Last year it was closed for renovation. Nice to see, what a great product resulted now. I defintetly check it out, when I am at Las Palmas Airport next time.

[mstrmren]

The whole concept of Eurowings discover is basically just taking over LH routes with staff that have cheaper contracts than the normal LH crew

[TheRareVideosXL]

I hope you have a better flight experience next time.
Great video as always though.
Keep it up.