Avis du vol entre Calvi et Nice en classe Economique avec Air Corsica

first trip to napoleon's island!

Hello everyone and welcome to this second flight report of this series of a holiday with family in Corsica island.

I first joined my parents in Nice, where we stayed a few days, before crossing the med towards Bastia with our car… We went around the island clockwise up until Calvi and the wonderful Ile Rousse, where I left to fly back to London.

at calvi - sainte catherine airport

The airport is very small, probably one of the smallest I have been to but fairly organised and all the minimum of services are present. It just features a big hall split into two parties: check in and airside!

I remember the lady at checkin was really friendly, she asked me what we visited on the island and whilst we were having a discussion she printed off my boarding pass.

First for me, she also tagged this label to my cabin luggage - I wasn't much used to fly with small aircrafts back then.

And boarding was launched, I can't remember if priorities were respected, I wasn't having that many miles, just enough not to loose them!!

onboard the atr72

Aircraft: ATR72-212
Registration: F-GRPI
Engines: 2x PW127G
Age: 16 Years
Layout: Y70
Observation: Started its carrier as a CCM aircraft (Air France operated by) then Air Corsica, then was sold to Airlinair and since 2015 went back to be an Air Corsica asset. 

I remember we were walking to the plane to board, which is always nicer than being on a paxbus.

It really was some time ago so I apoligise I don't remember how nice or not the crew was. I was seating next to the props and it was very impressive at engine start, almost scary!!

I had someone next to me but nobody on the saime row but on the right hand side so i moved there just before take off.

I think it must be one of my shortest flights to this day so the service started almost straight away after take off - which was nice. Some other airlines would use the excuse of a short flight not to serve any kind of drinks.

During the very short cruise..

And the inflight magazine of Air Corsica

with a lot of articles on the islands beaches, musuems…

and a small page on the fleet side with a word of the boss

at nice - côte d'azur airport

for once we landed from the east side of the runway

And a last picture of the cabin before I left the plane