MAD! Flying BOLIVIAN AIRLINES $40 Business Class across the Atlantic!

This is a comprehensive Flight Review of Bolivian Airlines.

Class: Business
Route: Madrid (MAD) to Santa Cruz de la Sierra (VVI)
Plane: Airbus A330-200

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[MileHighFlyer]

Nice! 40 Euros for an upgrade on an 11hrs flight is like winning a small lottery!!! The A330 business cabin looked nice too... ✈️✈️✈️

[GiovanniPietro]

>tells he is afraid of spiders
Dude, Qatar Airways is going to send you a shoe box full of tarantulas now 😂😂😂

[danif]

Bolivian subscriber here!🇧🇴
hope you enjoyed your stay:)

[mauritius]

Nice to see that Bolivia's national carrier is using Airbus again. In the 90's I, as a KLM Ground Engineer, was stationed in Santa Cruz to assist Lloyd Aereo Boliviano with their A310 operation.

[CosmeFulanito-kwny]

I´ve done many flights from Buanos Aires or Montevideo to Madrid. Boliviana gave me the best attention on board. A really excellent service. I still have over my bed the double size blanket they gave me for free when I asked if it was buyable. My purpose is to make future flights with them.

[filipino]

Happy you had a wonderful flight. And I love how honest you are with the food review.

[mariopoliti]

That is absolute mental, 40 euros for a business class upgrade, fantastic deal, another great vlog, really enjoyed it, thanks Josh 👍✈️

[ChineseKiwi]

3:10 - Wait, you moved to Melbourne, Australia where you first started blogging about aviation. You know we have BIG huntsman spiders just casually chilling in people’s houses right? 😂

[FalconX]

A week after me asking why no one of the big aviation youtubers does south America and everyone seems to focus on Asia we get this. Amazing! Want to see more of South America, there seems to be interesting aviations and planes there.

[nickpapagiorgio]

It’s like you said it’s in the little details especially when everything else is good and comfortable it’s those little things that will make you remember them when you’re ready to book another fare. Great review Josh!

[LetsgowithHyro]

Very interesting flight review! Living in the Caribbean I would love to see you travel and review more South American and Caribbean airlines. Keep it up Josh, love your videos!

[MarcusOS]

I've been toalmost all of the large countries in South America (lacking Boliva and Parguay). And. I've been in Ecuador for almost 10 years now.

One thing I really love is that while few people speak English, everyone is happy to work with you so that you can still communicate. Of course, my Spanish is now pretty good.

Latin America, in general, is very easy going, which means you will not have German efficiency, but you can really chill.

[jacobyalfa]

Welcome to Latín America! Que disfrutes tu estadía en cualquier país que visites 😅. Greetings from San Salvador. ❤

[ALTAJR-]

I have been to La Paz, Bolivia in the 1990s. Very interesting city with great restaurants and bars, My friends and I rented a car and we drove to Lake Titicaca. One place people should go see.
The only thing was the Altitude gave all of us massive headaches the first 2 days and it was hard to breath when walking even a block. We acclimated on the 3rd day.
I have read that the Glacier we saw there has all but melted away!!!

[lucaslikesaus]

Now this is what I call a proper flight review thank you Josh! and 40 Euros what a steal, also I was wandering were the virgin Australia a330 went thx:)

[goytabr]

Even if it were a daylight flight, you wouldn't see much of the Amazon rainforest. The flight path from Spain to Bolivia overflies mostly the Southern Amazon, which is the part of it that has been most extensively cleared for soybean plantations and cattle ranches. Besides, don't forget the "rain" part before "forest". The Amazon is an extremely rainy region, and when overflying it, you're more likely to see just a vast sea of clouds. You have to both be very lucky with the weather and be overflying a more intact part of the Amazon to have a glimpse of the rainforest.

Now, associating South America with the Amazon rainforest is like associating Europe with the fjords of Norway (which ARE in Europe, after all, just as the Amazon is in South America). There is nothing in Europe but glaciers and fjords. Paris is a nice Norwegian village on the Seinefjord. Berlin is right at the foot of majestic snow-covered mountains. Rome has a very old stadium built by vikings to quarrel with each other when drunk with acquavit (the only thing all Europeans drink). Spain has a nice way of preparing herring (the only thing all Europeans eat) called the paella, which they serve in banquets called "el esmorgasbordo" in the Norwegian dialect that all Spaniards speak. And so on...

Your idea of South America is something like that. South America is a HUGE continent with an immense variety of landscapes, climates, and cultures. And Spanish is NOT the language of half of South Americans because Brazil has about half of the continent's population, and Brazilians speak Portuguese, not Spanish (not to mention the small population of the three Guianas that speak English, Dutch, or French, and the millions of people in Paraguay and in the Andean countries who speak various indigenous languages like Guaraní, Quechua, Aymara and several others, all alive and well). You were later in chilly Punta Arenas in far southern Chile, and you saw how that couldn't more different from the Amazon rainforest in all respects (in fact, Punta Arenas is in an area of subpolar climate very similar to northern Norway, complete with fjords and glaciers).

Even in Brazil, the country with the largest portion of the Amazon region, which in turn is almost half of the country's land area as well, the Amazon has less than 10% of the country's population of over 200 million people. Given the enormous distances in this immense country (larger than the "Lower 48" contiguous United States), the vast majority of Brazilians have never seen the Amazon rainforest and never will, and the Amazon is something almost as mysterious, exotic, and alien to most Brazilians' experiences as it is to Europeans. Asking the average Brazilian about the Amazon rainforest is like asking the average New Yorker about the Grand Canyon — it's in the same country, but thousands of miles away, and they've most likely never seen it.

And spiders??? Josh, you live in Sri Lanka, a tropical country, and have lived in Australia, which is partly tropical as well. ALL tropical countries have a large variety of spiders, big and small, dangerous or not, but that hasn't prevented you from living there. Why would you be afraid of an entire continent (much of it too cold and inhospitable for spiders) because of them?

[OndrejS]

Josh sorry, but it's ridiculous to say you don't like South America because of spiders when you live in Sri Lanka. It's not that different. South America is amazing, I personally love it. You are missing out for no reason

[franksousek]

As a Bolivian myself.. I am glad your first South American destination was Bolivia I really hope you enjoyed it! As per BOA itself...as most monopolies around the world it is generally a load of crap I am glad your experience was acceptable !
Cheers Josh! Great work

[thijsdejong]

Nice one again Josh, great deal on the upgrade. Spanish is a fun language to learn 🎉

[Just_WilsonOfficial]

YAY! New video! Goodnight from Melbourne at 8:09pm!