Review of AeroGal flight from Bogota to Quito in Economy

Hello everyone! As I've already covered all recent flights, I plan to do FR from past trips. So welcome to this retro-FR, for the Throwback Thursday's sake.
This was a trip I did to Quito during my last year of school. It was exciting as it was one of many first: first time to Ecuador, first time on a then dodgy airline, AeroGal and first, and probably only, time on a 737-200, fondly called chanchos (pigs) in South America.
We arrived early to to the Airport, then still served by the 1950's terminal. Check in was a breeze, had our boarding passes filled by hand (Really retro). Said goodbye to my dad and off to the McDonalds to have breakfast with my friends. Emigration was quick for most of us, except for a friend who has three citizenships, the migration officer thought his passports were fake, and then hell broke lose. Calls, visits to supervisor, etc. Since we were travelling with a teacher he intervened to have him out. Eventually the issue got fixed.
Then police check (at the time you had 2 security checks at BOG, 3 if you were going to the US), the same guy with the passport deal got busted with his bag filled with Aguardiente (Colombia's signature alcohol), our teacher made a fuzz, but not about taking booze to school activity, but for wasting the guaro since it got confiscated.
We got to the Gate, and there our piggy was waiting for us

Besides, a (then) omnipresent maddog was being prepared to a trip to Caracas or Quito too…

The cabin was well kept, but the plane clearly showed its age.

While we were sorted out and OK to leave, FAs passed around offering OJ and Champagne…fancy detail.
Drinks done with, we were off to the runway.
At the time, AeroRepública (before being Copa Airlines Colombia) had the new and novel Embraers. Avianca didn't even had defined to buy either 737NGs or A320s

757s were also commonplace at the time, Deltaflot present!

Avianca's biggest at the time 767-300

We took off from RWY 13R…

The old terminal…check the difference with the present one.

The Puente Aéreo hasn't changed in these 7 years, bummer.

No IFE but the views…but there wasn't much to see.

If I'm not wrong this is Nevado del Huila, Colombia's highest Andean mountain.

We were handed breakfast…no pic (sorry, I wasn't a hardcore geek at the time)
Fastly enough we were over Ecuador
This must be Tulcan

The scenery was stunning.

Arriving into Quito's old Mariscal Sucre Airport was an awesome approach was over the valley east of the city, surrounded by snow peaked mountains up to 6000m and then you dropped into Quito's valley, floating over the city's buildings.

The Pichincha volcano guarding Quito

The only bad deal about it, is that the coolest part of the flight happens so fast.

The terminal building, deserted…but for a TAME Embraer

And a brother chanchito.

We descended through stairs, then into a bus that left us in the migration zone. Even if smaller, and unpopular with locals, UIOs terminal was in a much better shape than BOG at the time. At the time of that trip, diplomatic relations between Colombia and Ecuador were really tense…so imagine our surprise when you hear at full volume Vallenato (Colombian typical music) being played at the hall, it came from one of the policewoman's mobile phone, the place was so empty the sound just echoed all around.
Passports asked for along with our Pasado Judicial, a document produced by the Colombian equivalent of the FBI or CIA in which you proved that you had no judicial records,they were just checked without much care, I felt a bit ripped off thinking of the ordeal that it was to acquire that piece of paper.
Bags were picked and then we were picked by the guys who had invited us, and so one of the most fun weeks in my life begun…