As we were planning this vacation, I received the prospect
of flying to Russia on Aeroflot with a 90:10 blend of excitement and
nervousness. On the one hand, I was
pretty pumped to check out a new airline I’d never flown before, and having
been an air show geek as a kid, I remember Aeroflot as a cold war equivalent of
Air Canada. Only I remember thinking
that Aeroflot’s stewardesses, while highly skilled and coached to work as a
highly coordinated unit, just didn’t have the same intangibles that our Canadian
stewardesses had <translation note: that’s a Canadian hockey joke
for you non-Canadian readers…>.
But on the other hand, Aeroflot doesn’t exactly get the same
kind of positive press that, say, Singapore Airlines, or Emirates does. There was another itinerary on SAS that
wasn’t very different in terms of scheduling or price, and seeing as how I love
all things Scandinavian, I was tempted to go with the Swedes. In the end however, Aeroflot got the nod, so
away we went.
