JFC Travel Blog

KLM’s CEO Peter Hartman talks about the inconvenience caused to passengers due to the changes in airport security. As far as I know he’s the first airline CEO to speak out about recent security measures.

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The final leg of the trip to Cairo featured an upgrade to World Business Class on the 747 after a few hassles with airport security. A relaxing end to an interesting couple of weeks.

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After the disaster of the second day my initial thoughts were that Egypt was not a place I wanted to visit again, however the next few days changed my opinion on the matter. In the end it turned out to be an interesting and enjoyable trip.

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The second day gave an example of Egyptian scams at work. I thought that the taxi being organised by the hotel concierge would have given us a trustworthy driver but how wrong I was.

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Arriving in Cairo presented me with my first experience with Egyptian immigration officers and I was not impressed. First of all we were supposed to have been met at arrival by a driver from the hotel. The driver is supposed to meet you before passport control and help you with the immigration procedures.

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My first flight on KLM intercontinental. The flight was relatively short so it was a good candidate to be booked in economy. Managed to reserve seats in row 10 which is a 2-3-2 configuration rather than a 3-3-3 configuration in the rest of the cabin.

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April 30th is Queens Day in The Netherlands, a time when Amsterdam turns in to one large street party. The past few years I have been in Amsterdam around the time of Queens Day but with flight connections it was impossible to spend the whole day in Amsterdam this time.

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