Forget cuddly Jeremy - this is the real Aeroflot! (Aeroflot)

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Product:	Aeroflot
Date:	20/06/00 (92 review reads)
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Advantages: cheap

Disadvantages: In view of the libel laws, I do not want to elaborate!

Witty Jeremy Spake's camp antics on the BBC's "Airport" programme must have done more to raise the profile of Aeroflot than an expensive advertising campaign, but under the surface little has changed since the bad old days of the hardline communists.

I felt reasonably comfortable flying in a european built airbus, but the internal flights within Russia are an entirely diffrent ball game.

On one overbooked flight from Moscow to Siberia, the cabin crew were taking bribes from desperate passengers to get on the plane at any cost, and there were more people than seats - we actually took off with people strap hanging from the luggage racks!

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