Review of Royal Jordanian flight from Athens to Amman in Economy

RJ132 / ATH-AMM

 Today's journey begins from Athens Eleftherios Int'l Airport. This was the third flight of my journey in July 2025.
Today I was flying on Royal Jordanian for the first time, over the Mediterranean to Amman.

I arrived at the airport quite early, around 10 a.m. Annoyingly, check-in and bag drop opened quite late at around 11:30, so I had to wait for a little while in the terminal.  
After dropping my bags and getting my boarding pass, it was time to head to security.
Athens Airport was incredibly busy that day, and I ended up waiting in line for just over an hour to reach passport control.
Combined with the Greek summer heat, passengers were understandably not too happy. Due to the long lines, airport staff began fast-tracking passengers with soon-departing flights. After about an hour, I finally reached passport control and passed through without issue. Security took only a few minutes, thankfully.

After security, I ran through duty-free as my flight was already boarding and the gate was about to close. Fortunately, many other passengers were still stuck in the queues, so the aircraft remained at the gate a little longer.

Flight 132

Boarding was smooth and quick. We boarded the Royal Jordanian Airbus A320, registered JY-AZC. This aircraft was delivered in 2015 to SaudiGulf Airlines and still featured its original green and brown seats. The seats were equipped with Thales TopSeries i5000 IFE screens, though all were unfortunately disabled or broken on this flight.

We taxied to runway 03R at Athens Eleftherios Venizelos. Takeoff was smooth and uneventful, climbing to 32,000 ft and making a right turn to head southeast over the Mediterranean, passing over Santorini and Rhodes.

After reaching cruising altitude, the crew came around with a meal of meatballs, which was quite good. This was the option other than vegetarian rice I believe. 

The rest of the flight was calm and uneventful. We began our descent to Amman over the Mediterranean, crossing Israel before flying over the Jordan River and entering Jordanian airspace.

As we approached Amman, we flew directly over the city before making a right turn to line up with runway 26L.

After disembarking, it was a short walk to passport control. The separate lanes for visa-free passengers and tourist visas were helpful and well-organized. The airport itself was beautiful,  a refreshing change of architecture compared to Athens.

Overall, it was a pleasant flight with few complaints, aside from the inconsistency of aircraft on this route. Sometimes it’s operated by newer A320neos or Embraer E190-E2s, but that day it was one of the older, second-hand A320s.