Neos Air is actually owned by Italian tour operator Alpitour. They mostly fly to destinations where they have their own resorts or have deals with others. In fact most of their destinations are once weekly as they sell complete packages (flight+hotel) for one/two weeks. I'm mostly impressed they serve food in real plates, with real cutlery and that they have a good and free IFE. Good job on them.
I have an answer to the meals. Yes they are made prior and fly the route down to then be served on the return. But a lot of the time they will load the galley carts into cargo containers with dry ice to keep it cool.
Tahiti Airport has the same issue and 30 degrees with high humidity. No air conditioning and open areas, only with fans in the ceiling. That's a very hot experience to go through
Neos is not a Unknow airlines, is the airlines of Alpitour the biggest holiday group in Italy he mainly operates charter flight to the maldives, sharm el sheik, Zanzibar and the caribbean sea, bringing tourist to the resorts of the alpitour group, also operates some scheduled flight between Palermo and NYC and between Milano and NYC
Neos Air is for sure an excellent carrier but out of Italy is pretty unknown, impossible to be compared to the main european travel groups airlines. Italy does't have a true national airline anymore but its small companies, Neos Air and Air Dolomiti are top notch from any point of view
Fun fact: Neos’ livery is very similar to the TUI one because, from its foundation in 2002 until 2005, Neos was fully owned by the TUI Group. It later became independent. On the internet you can find some images of the airline’s Boeing 737s with the TUI logo on the tail and the typical font of the livery
I landed in Nose-be one month ago on my journey to Mauricius from Milan (Neos has a weekly route Milan-nose be-Mauricius, serving 2 Alpitour’s destinations with a single plane): we stay 2 hours until the takeoff for Mauritius: there was our 787 and…. A Cessna! No other planes…! I heard one of the pilots talks to a passenger-friend that the nose bee runway is quite short for the wide-bodies jet… I’d like to visit Madagascar, in the future…
The food for the return flight is actually brought out on the outbound flight and just heated up. Hence, the Italian brands...can't get that In Madagascar.
6:43 Notice how the fire engines (possibly for the whole island, not just the airport) are standing by on the tarmac in case there is an emergency during takeoff. This is reminiscent of the situation in some remote Pacific islands where United Airlines operates and which Simply Aviation covered before :)
Lemme answer some of the question you have about operating such a flight outta such a remote location. Everything that isn’t perishable or refillable, will be double stocked on board. Meals are prepared from the main hub and crews are instructed to keep them untouched and frozen until it’s time to have them reheated on the return leg. Although this is only if the plane is going back directly after arriving. Milk products are usually replenished on sight, as are toiletries and other sanitary products. Everything else required for service is double catered. I’m a flight attendant and my full service legacy carrier does this for most of its overseas flights.
Catering is a funny one. Location plays a big factor in catering. Many long-haul carriers will land and get fresh catering (meals, top-up on drinks/new bars) on turnaround away from the base. Sometimes airlines will stock extra drinks and snacks, which means only meals and trays are required down route. This often differs from airport to airport, not even country to country. If the airport is smaller and doesn't have catering facilities, they will have it driven over from a nearby major airport with catering facilities. Finally, some routes (and probably likely in this case) food is loaded in the hold in chillers. The aircraft will have extra drink trolleys to allow for top-ups usually sorted by the outbound crew. Once the aircraft has landed, the food is taken from the hold and placed into the ovens on the aircraft. The trolleys with trays are then swapped for the used trolleys and placed into the hold. I've seen this happen in Liberia on TUI flights and in the Bahamas. Sometimes the food has been known to spoil which has led to flight cancellations, and airport vouchers issued for snacks.
I was told by a friend Nosey Bey is beautiful. Italians love going there. Neos also flys to Mersa Matruh in Egypt near the Libyan border in the summer. Italians like going there too. It's beautiful there. Legroom quite OK. Nice meal.
I work at the Hamburg Airport in Germany and we have Neos with there 787 here too but ONLY when there is a cruise ship coming to the port of Hamburg. No cruise ship with italians on it= No Neos flight this week 😅 same with AirEuropa. They fly with the 787 to madrid IF there is a cruise ship with spanish people coming to the port of Hamburg
@@cocazade7703 Nearly all Italian airplanes are Irish registered, as for ITA (and Alitalia), and most of Italian carriers (with Air Dolomiti as the notable exception). It has to do with a question of insurance and leased plates. Now it seems like some Italian airlines have started registering their planes in Malta (e.g. AeroItalia).
Great flight. Before I watching this, I didn't know there's place called Nosy Be. The plane livery is definitely TUI but with Neos branding. Great seat even though no pillow and blanket, Great food even though it's cooked and stored with dry ice from Italy for return flight, Great IFE, and there's WiFi.
Was this the same airline chartered to transport cruise ship passengers from Marseille, France to US Atlanta at the beginning of COVID pandemic due to Covid cases on the Costa cruise ship? There was a TH-cam video for that COVID flight. There were quite a few passengers died of COVID after the flight.
I flown Neos during covid period，it was the only vector flying from Italy to china (tianjin) during that time . Flight organized by the Italian commerce chamber. -3000 euro one way, of course no meal served.
Ho viaggiato spesso con Neos.... Madagascar...Kenya.... Maldive... Spagna... Mi sono sempre trovata bene....anche in economy....economy Estra plus.... E Premium..... cibo sempre buono e tutto italiano....personale sempre molto gentile.... Neos for ever😊
From Nosy Be you can reach beautiful places by boat like Nosy Iranja, Nosy Tanikely and Nosy Komba. Put this destination on your travel list. Date of the flight?
Kindly David, I can tell you my experience with Neos Air, as an Italian I can tell you that you haven't tried the medium range, that I took a 7 hour flight from Milan to Cape Verde/green and the seats were narrow and the food was horrendous
Very impressive all around with Neos. That airplane and catering must be down and back on the same day. The airport 'terminal' was nothing more than an open sided barn.
Those are infra-red sensors. The light they emit cannot be perceived by the human eye, but cameras can make it visible. If you have a remote control at home (like for your TV), if you hold the sensor at the top into your phone camera and press a button on the remote, you'll see the same effect. :)
This video is reported by Felix right .... because I can some reflection coming his screen entertainment and I recognized his face also. Thanks and Regards, Anamitro Dasgupta (from India)
During Covid, I flew with Neos multiple times to China since China required direct flights from country of departure and Neos was the only one with direct flights from Italy organized by the Italian Chamber of Commerce in Shanghai, let’s say Neos didn’t give me a good experience
for a moment my instinct thought about the refreshing towels in the lavatory was that they were condoms.... I was like wow, did the crew encourage mile high club activity? lol
I hate that flight attendants can "lock" the window dimming. Especially because on a daylight flight like this it is NOT good to sleep, as sleeping can upset your biological and circadian rhythm. They probably do this because they don't want to be bothered during the flight, but it's not good for the passengers !
Just watching those passengers walking out to the aircraft with their cases terrifies the bejesus out of me. WHO in their right mind thought that the size of these cases was an appropriate size to be loaded into overhead lockers? I have not flown in a passenger aircraft for some considerable time and watching these passengers with their, in my view, oversized cases boarding the aircraft will ensure that I will not be flying anywhere any time soon. Having seen photographs from inside the recent Singapore airlines from London Heathrow it makes me deeply concerned about the safety on board aircraft should they encounter heavy turbulence when cases such as those seen here are placed in the overhead lockers.
Neos Air is actually owned by Italian tour operator Alpitour. They mostly fly to destinations where they have their own resorts or have deals with others. In fact most of their destinations are once weekly as they sell complete packages (flight+hotel) for one/two weeks.
I'm mostly impressed they serve food in real plates, with real cutlery and that they have a good and free IFE. Good job on them.
thougt they were italian TUI.
@@skylineXpert yes, in the beginning they were part of TUI, Italian division..on the older aircraft the tail reported TUI logo
Its Not From Italy The Original Neos's Hometown Is Ireland
I have an answer to the meals. Yes they are made prior and fly the route down to then be served on the return. But a lot of the time they will load the galley carts into cargo containers with dry ice to keep it cool.
Return catering comes in deepfrozen''' the hotmeals are heated and the tray setup are in trolleys in the hold.
What about fuel? I don’t know if any aircraft has the range to do this route twice on one tank
For a budget/holiday carrier, not bad at all!
What airline is Jet2?
Tahiti Airport has the same issue and 30 degrees with high humidity. No air conditioning and open areas, only with fans in the ceiling. That's a very hot experience to go through
Neos is not a Unknow airlines, is the airlines of Alpitour the biggest holiday group in Italy he mainly operates charter flight to the maldives, sharm el sheik, Zanzibar and the caribbean sea, bringing tourist to the resorts of the alpitour group, also operates some scheduled flight between Palermo and NYC and between Milano and NYC
Neos Air is for sure an excellent carrier but out of Italy is pretty unknown, impossible to be compared to the main european travel groups airlines. Italy does't have a true national airline anymore but its small companies, Neos Air and Air Dolomiti are top notch from any point of view
@@d8889Italy have ita airways
Fun fact: Neos’ livery is very similar to the TUI one because, from its foundation in 2002 until 2005, Neos was fully owned by the TUI Group. It later became independent. On the internet you can find some images of the airline’s Boeing 737s with the TUI logo on the tail and the typical font of the livery
è vero, che belle le livree ibride
You got me there.
I thought it was TUI at first 😅
Such a large aircraft at such a small airport, interesting
I landed in Nose-be one month ago on my journey to Mauricius from Milan (Neos has a weekly route Milan-nose be-Mauricius, serving 2 Alpitour’s destinations with a single plane): we stay 2 hours until the takeoff for Mauritius: there was our 787 and…. A Cessna! No other planes…! I heard one of the pilots talks to a passenger-friend that the nose bee runway is quite short for the wide-bodies jet…
I’d like to visit Madagascar, in the future…
The food for the return flight is actually brought out on the outbound flight and just heated up. Hence, the Italian brands...can't get that In Madagascar.
I flew the same route in January! The food was fantastic! Migliore compagnia aerea❤
Classmate named Be: Where did you go for the holidays
“Nosy Be”
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Thanks for posting another great trip report David. 😊🛩
6:43 Notice how the fire engines (possibly for the whole island, not just the airport) are standing by on the tarmac in case there is an emergency during takeoff. This is reminiscent of the situation in some remote Pacific islands where United Airlines operates and which Simply Aviation covered before :)
Pretty sure the actual capital will have some fire engines too, Madagascar is quite big :p
@@waytoomanysquids614Nosy be is on a small separate island a few Miles of the mainland so it may actually be the only fire engines for the island.
nice flight, i love the italian airlines thank you🇮🇹
Lemme answer some of the question you have about operating such a flight outta such a remote location. Everything that isn’t perishable or refillable, will be double stocked on board. Meals are prepared from the main hub and crews are instructed to keep them untouched and frozen until it’s time to have them reheated on the return leg. Although this is only if the plane is going back directly after arriving. Milk products are usually replenished on sight, as are toiletries and other sanitary products. Everything else required for service is double catered. I’m a flight attendant and my full service legacy carrier does this for most of its overseas flights.
The new intro in your trip report videos are more better than the old ones.
I love the old ones❤
I love the 787 it’s just so comfortable and quite in the way you think ❤️
Look's like you guys been pumping out more videos, nice!
Catering is a funny one. Location plays a big factor in catering. Many long-haul carriers will land and get fresh catering (meals, top-up on drinks/new bars) on turnaround away from the base. Sometimes airlines will stock extra drinks and snacks, which means only meals and trays are required down route. This often differs from airport to airport, not even country to country. If the airport is smaller and doesn't have catering facilities, they will have it driven over from a nearby major airport with catering facilities. Finally, some routes (and probably likely in this case) food is loaded in the hold in chillers. The aircraft will have extra drink trolleys to allow for top-ups usually sorted by the outbound crew. Once the aircraft has landed, the food is taken from the hold and placed into the ovens on the aircraft. The trolleys with trays are then swapped for the used trolleys and placed into the hold. I've seen this happen in Liberia on TUI flights and in the Bahamas. Sometimes the food has been known to spoil which has led to flight cancellations, and airport vouchers issued for snacks.
Beautiful video as always
The Italians certainly don't mess with their food
Yep I like it
Nosy Be is a hilarious name
I misread it as "Noisy Bee" 😂
I read nosy bee
It means "big island" in Malagasy. It's pronounced "noo-see beh"
@@cheune6677 « nuus bé »
@@cheune6677who cares
Great trip report video as always! Madagascar looks like a beautiful country!
I miss the old jingle! 😢 it was so soothing
Very beautiful video!
Nosy be is such an amusing name! Amazing video as always!
It’s video like these that make simply aviation an amazing channel 😊
Nice flight simply aviation 👍
I was told by a friend Nosey Bey is beautiful. Italians love going there. Neos also flys to Mersa Matruh in Egypt near the Libyan border in the summer. Italians like going there too. It's beautiful there. Legroom quite OK. Nice meal.
Excellent trip report Felix!😸
Did you sleep on the plane, even though it's a daytime flight?
Nosy Be, what a uniquely hilarious name for a town!
Fantastic video! As always :). (I haven't watched it yet but it looks fire)
why does nosy be remind me of a bare essentials airport that Ryanair would enjoy?
I would love to fly to Madagascar, it seems to be only something true AVgeeks do (like this channel lol)
Looks very impressive for a very unknown airline, perhaps I should fly with them one day!
How can an airport with only 2200 meters can accomodate Widebody plane to Rome (9hrs) and no transit in somewhere tp refuel??
Full thrust and no obstacles on the departure route.
That’s one very smooth landing. Buttery.
Please consider trying T'Way's new Zagreb-Bishkek-Seoul route!!
That's the most random route I ever heard of, even more than Shanghai Airlines Budapest-Ningbo.
Hii, Incredible vid like always
I wonder if the widebody aircraft could fit in the smaller airports like Caticlan in the Philippines (gateway to Boracay)
I work at the Hamburg Airport in Germany and we have Neos with there 787 here too but ONLY when there is a cruise ship coming to the port of Hamburg. No cruise ship with italians on it= No Neos flight this week 😅 same with AirEuropa. They fly with the 787 to madrid IF there is a cruise ship with spanish people coming to the port of Hamburg
It's nice to see Felix back again(Or am I mistaken?), and great video as always. What happended to the sign that tells who made the report btw?
Good thing you tried this airline!
When are you going to try Garuda again?
lol, I never thought there would be a place called Nosy Be 😂 thanks for the awesome review David ❤
1:36 Classic Italian situation with an (obv) Irish registered plane! 😂
Why is it Irish registered?
@@cocazade7703 Nearly all Italian airplanes are Irish registered, as for ITA (and Alitalia), and most of Italian carriers (with Air Dolomiti as the notable exception). It has to do with a question of insurance and leased plates. Now it seems like some Italian airlines have started registering their planes in Malta (e.g. AeroItalia).
Great flight. Before I watching this, I didn't know there's place called Nosy Be. The plane livery is definitely TUI but with Neos branding. Great seat even though no pillow and blanket, Great food even though it's cooked and stored with dry ice from Italy for return flight, Great IFE, and there's WiFi.
😅Great video, 🎉 can you plz do a tripreport on scoots new e190 E2 to krabi
My favourite airline❤
Was this the same airline chartered to transport cruise ship passengers from Marseille, France to US Atlanta at the beginning of COVID pandemic due to Covid cases on the Costa cruise ship? There was a TH-cam video for that COVID flight. There were quite a few passengers died of COVID after the flight.
I flown Neos during covid period，it was the only vector flying from Italy to china (tianjin) during that time . Flight organized by the Italian commerce chamber. -3000 euro one way, of course no meal served.
I will report Tui airlines on my channel. Good report!
love the new intro.
Ho viaggiato spesso con Neos.... Madagascar...Kenya.... Maldive... Spagna... Mi sono sempre trovata bene....anche in economy....economy Estra plus.... E Premium..... cibo sempre buono e tutto italiano....personale sempre molto gentile.... Neos for ever😊
From Nosy Be you can reach beautiful places by boat like Nosy Iranja, Nosy Tanikely and Nosy Komba. Put this destination on your travel list. Date of the flight?
Kindly David, I can tell you my experience with Neos Air, as an Italian I can tell you that you haven't tried the medium range, that I took a 7 hour flight from Milan to Cape Verde/green and the seats were narrow and the food was horrendous
Very impressive all around with Neos. That airplane and catering must be down and back on the same day. The airport 'terminal' was nothing more than an open sided barn.
Hey, did you know that austrian airlines got their new B787-9 dreamliner?
It seems that there was constantly some background conversation going on throughout the flight. It must have been exhausting.
I would never describe an apricot tart for dessert as "perfect".
4:54 can anyone please tell me what are those blinking lights at the bottom of IFE Screen (they suspiciously blink like iPhone’s FaceID LoL)
Those are infra-red sensors. The light they emit cannot be perceived by the human eye, but cameras can make it visible. If you have a remote control at home (like for your TV), if you hold the sensor at the top into your phone camera and press a button on the remote, you'll see the same effect. :)
Butter landing 👌
Have you meet vincanzo cassano in itly ???
This video is reported by Felix right .... because I can some reflection coming his screen entertainment and I recognized his face also.
Thanks and Regards,
Anamitro Dasgupta (from India)
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The hot meal served at 11:27 its Called "Calzone al Forno"
Do an Aeroitalia tripreport! Maybe from PEG airport would be cool!
flying from smaller known locations to a bigger on is always interesting lol
why neos airlines is in ireland?
Next week I’m flying Lufthansa😮 to Munich
Is that Tui ?
Fichissima la sigla 🤩
During Covid, I flew with Neos multiple times to China since China required direct flights from country of departure and Neos was the only one with direct flights from Italy organized by the Italian Chamber of Commerce in Shanghai, let’s say Neos didn’t give me a good experience
I ALSO FLEW ON NEOS! TO MILAN
for a moment my instinct thought about the refreshing towels in the lavatory was that they were condoms.... I was like wow, did the crew encourage mile high club activity? lol
Finally neos...
The subtitle is wrong. Not "it's perfect", but "perfecto!!!!" hahaha~ Thanks for sharing!!
Can you go with air Algérie pls❤
🎉
4 euros for a seat reservation- I'm sold
Mini airport big plane 😊
i was surprised how old is the safety video XD
Awesome❤❤❤
I think David should put brutally honest about 75%, cause i got Brutally honest intro in my mind again💀💀
I hate that flight attendants can "lock" the window dimming. Especially because on a daylight flight like this it is NOT good to sleep, as sleeping can upset your biological and circadian rhythm.
They probably do this because they don't want to be bothered during the flight, but it's not good for the passengers !
The windows were dimmed and locked by the crew, so.....definitely not my airline to fly!
Just watching those passengers walking out to the aircraft with their cases terrifies the bejesus out of me.
WHO in their right mind thought that the size of these cases was an appropriate size to be loaded into overhead lockers?
I have not flown in a passenger aircraft for some considerable time and watching these passengers with their, in my view, oversized cases boarding the aircraft will ensure that I will not be flying anywhere any time soon.
Having seen photographs from inside the recent Singapore airlines from London Heathrow it makes me deeply concerned about the safety on board aircraft should they encounter heavy turbulence when cases such as those seen here are placed in the overhead lockers.
Try malawian airlines but their is a boing 737-800 max8😊😅
I have an idea why not make the intro showing the seat type and aircraft sit pan into a poster and buying it
I never knew there was a place called: Be Noisy, oh sorry, Be Nosy, sorry again Nosy Be
you should fly air India's new a350 and indigo's new 777
Veloma ✈️😊
I'm sorry but was never been an unknown airline . As you said . I'm not Italian tho
Kuwait Airways Please
Nosy Be is a hilarious name for a city 😂
Can you do a Tripreport on Lao Airlines 🇱🇦 from Savannakhet/Vientiane 🇱🇦 to Bangkok Suvarnabhumi 🇹🇭?
What was that laugh at 04:41? 😅
Can you do Brutally Honest on Air Serbia 🇷🇸 Belgrade 🇷🇸 to Tianjin 🇨🇳
13:31
Wide Body Aircraft on tiny airport
It's unusual to be able to understand anything that the crowd says in an english-speaker video (I'm Italian)