I flew Lauda twice on their Helsinki - Vienna route last November. The return ticket price was just 50€ which is pretty great compared to Finnair’s 200€ for example. In my case the seats felt fine but my tray table was broken on both flights so thats what theyll need to get fixed lol. Apart from that the crew was nice and I left with a mostly positive impression 🤷🏻‍♂️ I also like the livery. Very retro and cool.

My, how things have changed at Lauda. I first flew on the original Lauda Air in business class LGW-VIE-SIN-SYD in 1997. LGW to VIE was on a 737 I think. The pilot that particular morning was Mr Niki Lauda. The flight from Vienna was a Boeing 767. This was before the introduction of lie flat seats but still very comfortable. Not at all like the Lauda of today.

@airedition

5 ай бұрын

Sounds amazing! A sad progression to what it is now.

I flew Lauda return this week. Apart from narrow galley. Flight was good aircraft clean and looked well maintained. Seats were hard bases though i agree. But mostly for me you could feel well piloted. Thats what counts. Id say 6/10 for a budget airlone.

@airedition

24 күн бұрын

Sounds like a good result! Thanks for sharing your experience.

5:12 I love the old Lauda liveries. Niki Lauda said his airplanes had to look a certain way like a good looking car. It was admirable how personal he took the Lauda004 767-300ER thrust reverser crash and was determined to find what happened, especially after having his crazy car crash.

@airedition

4 ай бұрын

They were really cool liveries yeah!

At least your kids took it in stride :) Great video!

@airedition

5 ай бұрын

Hehe yeah, luckily not too long a trip!

Always nice videos in mallorca😂

Niki Lauda was also a pilot. He had Boeing 767 and 777 type ratings at least

@airedition

8 ай бұрын

Fascinating guy!

@ShrekWasp

8 ай бұрын

It's well worth reading Maurice Hamilton's biography on Niki. Covers a lot of his life in aviation.

Great vid as always, hope your channel takes off like the flightradar24 channel! I'm curious, how are you a Swede? Are you an American naturalised Swede or American with Swedish parents?

@airedition

8 ай бұрын

Thanks! I got Swedish citizenship after living in the country for long enough.

😂😂 "and it was airworthy". So you got that going for you... which is nice

@airedition

8 ай бұрын

Yeah I mean that’s worth a few points right 😂

„G-Rate“ for great as high as they score. Gabe, I missed: - loo review - View on the Menu, what is the offering? Thanks and keep up!

@airedition

8 ай бұрын

True, the menu didn’t exist so I couldn’t see the options or show them!

You should have taken Luftansa and paid hundreds more in euros. Then they would tske you through Frankfurt with a layover and you would get to Spain about 7 houts later then on Lda.. and guess what - it would have been the same aircraft type A320 that even has the very same seats... oh yeah, the traytable would have been better... did you ever wonder why the difference in price? You really want the VIP treatment for 10 times less money? Not a realistic expectation...

@airedition

8 ай бұрын

Did I ask for VIP treatment at any point? What I expect on EVERY flight regardless of price is decent passenger-oriented policies and functional, not broken seats. That is actually very realistic and reasonable! Also, why are you so worked up about this?

@EN-oh7mz

8 ай бұрын

@@airedition i am just saying that you would have the same seat if you paid your ticket 10 times more with one of the legacy cariers. Ok, the tray table would probobly be fixed. I think you are being unrealistic in you expectation as if you are to do a video comparing the Tesla car with the Renault Zoe.. see no point in doing it.. as long as there is a price difference there will always be people buyin cheap and others wanting to be treated special.. and not addmiting it..

@airedition

8 ай бұрын

I didn’t compare anything though. Just evaluated the experience on its own merit.

@EN-oh7mz

8 ай бұрын

@@airedition if you evaluate it has to be done against a certain approved standard. What was your standard in evaluation? Low cost against dreamliner? Ok, maybe not but evaluation without the standard would be like saying:"I went to the moon and you know it was soo terrible there.. but I did not compare it to anything it is just terrible on it's own". As if you don't know Earth.. Ok, I will stop this back and forth thing now but I think if you can not accept some criticizm for the work you are doing on KZread maybe you should stop producing...

@airedition

8 ай бұрын

@@EN-oh7mz I'm happy to take criticism; what I won't stay quiet for is when someone talks down to me, uses sarcasm, and misrepresents or misunderstands what I'm doing/saying - all of which you did. The "standard in evaluation" is obviously other flights on low cost airlines; I never had expectations of "VIP treatment", any particular special perks, free things, nothing like that. Like I already said, I expected a working seat. And I found the experience lacking. And that's not even getting into the fact that I paid quite a bit for this flight (Lufthansa was not 10x more, no, not even 2x). What is this bizarre moon travel analogy you're trotting out!? You seem oddly invested in defending Lauda, and I can't really figure out why! Yes, probably best if you just stop.

Can you please do more vlogs at the places you fly too? I love the aviation videos, but i would also live som vlogs about what you are doing there

@airedition

8 ай бұрын

Yes I will! Tell me: would you prefer them attached to the flight video, or as separate videos about the place?

@mpbee78

8 ай бұрын

Both? The add on at the end of this video piqued my interest enough to wonder more about Mallorca. It makes me think about the video with Madeira Spotting-sure it was going around the airport but similar in that much of the video wasn’t about the flight

@mpbee78

8 ай бұрын

If anything, some of the comments you get provide more entertainment!

@airedition

8 ай бұрын

😂

@mrmysticman1954

8 ай бұрын

maybe saparate videos about the places @@airedition

Personally I quite like Lauda compared to some of the other LCCs like Wizz having had a few good flights now. However I have heard many horror stories and all of my flights have had at least 1 last-minute equipment change!

@airedition

7 ай бұрын

Interesting! Maybe I should give them another chance at some point. But I don’t really want to 😂

Not many people know you have your own channel, maybe you should bring that up in some Flightradar24 video.

@airedition

8 ай бұрын

True! I need everyone to help spread the word too! Thanks for watching and commenting.

I have a love and hate relationship with these planes. They are bad, nonetheless I fly quite often with Lauda A320s. I'm based in Austria and they already took me to Lithuania, Germany, Spain und Latvia for crazy low prices. Next flight to Zadar, Croatia this summer. Was also having a short flight from Vienna to Bucharest with Austrian last year...no difference in service except they could speak German, but at a much higher price.

@airedition

2 ай бұрын

Fair point, if you can get the crazy low prices then it's easier to put up with the bad experience!

Gabriel's Grade.

I just came home from a trip to malta and back with Lauda. I have to say i will probably never ever in my life seat on any boeing because flying with A320 was absolutely amazing. Last year i was flying with 737-800 and it was terrible experience. Never ever ryanair and their shitbox boeing. If ryanair than Lauda. Not to mention that boeing land like a fricking cow and airbus lands so soft that you hardly notice you are on the ground.

@airedition

Ай бұрын

Haha I’ve had hard landings in both! But I’m glad you enjoyed your A320!

Seriously how can you compare the two different flights ? That's like me comparing Emirates to Dubai 🇦🇪 & Ryanair to Bulgaria 🇧🇬 no comparison 😳 a tad harsh on Lauda air you pay for what you get & of course it's airworthy 🤣

@airedition

8 ай бұрын

Which comparison are you talking about? I love how everyone always says “you get what you pay for” as if low cost airlines should be exempt from criticism because they’re cheap. Nope, I think we should still call them out.

@stuartball4639

8 ай бұрын

Last time you did it was Swiss Air in business class you said or your previous flight on a Dreamliner that's the comparison. Lauda is ok for a low cost European flight I've flown with them a few times & it's typical Ryanair cheap & cheerful. I bet you would of paid double if not more on another carrier. I found the seats very comfortable compared with the 737- 800's, Ryanair's Max 8's are the most comfortable tho. 👍😊

@airedition

8 ай бұрын

Right but I never said I was comparing them. I just said that’s what I did last time, to set up that this was a totally different type of trip. I’m glad you had good flights with them.

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