After leaving the airport lounge in Trieste, it was time to go through to passport control. This was very much a positioning journey to get me back to the UK, I spent some time in Tirana earlier in the year and I would only be there overnight.
After getting through into the gate area, it was apparent that the airport authorities had forgotten to put many seats in there. As this was a non-Schengen flight, it meant we had to be segregated, so annoyingly there were lots of seats the other side of that glass wall.
Walking outside to the aircraft, the whole process was ordered as usual.
The aircraft was HA-LTB, seemingly another aircraft that I haven’t been on before. I think I might need to get on more Wizz Air flights…. It’s quite rare for this to happen, but the seating Gods gave me a middle seat, but the flight didn’t take much longer than an hour, so this was all very tolerable.
This seems much more common on flights to and from Albania, but there was far too much excitement on landing with some passengers applauding and screeching with delight. I can’t be doing with this level of raucous and the crew members struggled to get control of the passengers who were bored of waiting and started standing up whilst the flight was still taxiing around.
I was walking to the hotel, which was just a ten minute walk, after I established how to get out of the aircraft as they’ve got fences everywhere. I did plan to pop into KFC, but the prices were completely out of any sensible level which did explain why it was nearly empty. The prices were around five times higher than their central Tirana location and I’m not going to engage with that nonsense.
Excuse the wire fence that I couldn’t poke my phone through, but here’s the exterior of the rather attractive looking airport. Although I think they’ve added this cladding type arrangement as the airport actually isn’t very attractive.
This flight cost me just under £9 and once again, the crew were friendly, personable and the aircraft was clean. There was a quick trolley run, but there weren’t many takers, but apart from the unnecessary applause it was another of those flights that nothing exciting took place and that’s just how I like it.