Continued from here ...
photos of this post are from two different flights made by me and David, it is always the flight AZ0782, but I have taken 18 September 2010, while David has taken a few weeks later, the October 7, 2010. The planes are identical, but Boeing 777-243/ER are two different specimens, one taken from me was I-inequality, while David was taken by EI-DDH. You can consider two planes twins, their only difference is the color scheme. It 's interesting to compare some aspects of these two twins flights taken within a few days of each other: the same route, same times, same catering (this aspect that will be analyzed in Part Three) , same places (although several rows, they were both "L", that windows on the right).
photos of this post are from two different flights made by me and David, it is always the flight AZ0782, but I have taken 18 September 2010, while David has taken a few weeks later, the October 7, 2010. The planes are identical, but Boeing 777-243/ER are two different specimens, one taken from me was I-inequality, while David was taken by EI-DDH. You can consider two planes twins, their only difference is the color scheme. It 's interesting to compare some aspects of these two twins flights taken within a few days of each other: the same route, same times, same catering (this aspect that will be analyzed in Part Three) , same places (although several rows, they were both "L", that windows on the right).
( Picture by John Richard Thomson , Airliners.net ) We are about to take flight AZ0782, an Alitalia Boeing 777-243/ER with brands I-inequality that Rome Fiumicino (LIRF / FCO) in approximately 12 hours will lead us directly to the 成 田 国际 空港 ( Narita Kokusai Kuko - Narita International Airport ) or as it was known until 2004 (and as he was called by the speaker in the splendid and unforgettable sequence Initial Lost In Translation ) 新 东京 国际 空港 成 田 ( Shin -Tokyo Kokusai Kuko Narita - New airport international Tokyo Narita ) (RJAA / NRT), which is located in 千叶 県 ( Chiba-ken - Chiba prefecture ). 
( Photo by David Cassanelli ) output My flight was assigned to the G05 , that the flight of David (pictured above) was the G09. We are in the satellite terminal (T5) 's airport Leonardo Da Vinci Fiumicino of . Q his year boarding is done a little differently than last year . The gate area was partially enclosed by columns of Tendiflex , passengers awaiting boarding sitting in chairs waiting inside the fenced area at the time of boarding the beginning of Alitalia's ground operators have closed the boarding area evicting all the passengers waiting inside the fenced area, and they did a first control documents (boarding pass and ID) the same after having them come inside the fenced control, then began boarding, with a new documentary and the withdrawal of boarding passes ... 
(Picture from here ) past the gate, you go down these stairs and furniture reaches the lower floor where there is the entrance to the dock boarding (finger) telescope to the entrance of the aircraft ... 
( Picture by Darren Koch , Airliners.net ) Above is an overview of the satellite terminal Fiumicino: the first was called "C", now called "T5 ". The finger that I used for this flight is shown by the red square ... 
If you are one of the jocks who are traveling in Magnifica class, pass the first entry and enter the second ... 
( Map from SeatGuru.com ) My place was 18L. The place "L" is on the right side window: 777 economy class of Alitalia is furnished with 30 rows of seats arranged in nine columns : There are two corridors that divide the columns into groups of three (3/3/3 ). 
( Picture by Matthew Lee , Airliners.net ) Here is the cabin of an Alitalia 777. One of the down of seating compared to the full availability of the Alitalia 777 of 747 seats in Economy Class on JAL (which also has a higher population density organized in 10 columns with two aisles, according to the scheme 3/4/3, see the map on here ) is that there are no divisions and the entire economy cabin is divided in two areas separated by a long block service. The block is also the main service center with four separate lavatory rooms, and so this involves a perennial crowding of the central area of \u200b\u200bthe economy to the detriment of those whose seats are assigned in that area: the most unlucky to this point of view are those of the file 29 and 30 fact, if you have the misfortune to sit there, as well as attend a perpetual procession of incontinence, the backs your seats will be used as support from incontinence who will govern you while waiting for the cabinet in case of turbulence (but even if there is none) or in the case of stretching exercises against "economy class thrombosis. 
( Photo by David Cassanelli ) This photo taken by David on a seat "L" specimen EI-DDH is explanatory of the conditions in which I find to spend the next twelve hours of my life. Space is very limited, and more under the seat is placed side-window box PTV system hardware of the previous row : questo implica che ci sia un minor spazio a disposizione (circa il 60%) per alloggiare il bagaglio a mano lì sotto e soprattutto s olo la gamba destra si può allungare liberamente sotto il sedile . 
( Contact me to claim the copyright for this picture ) Dal punto di vista dell'ergonomicità e della comodità i sedili del 777 Alitalia, marchiati Recaro e rivestiti in pelle nel poggia-testa, surclassano quelli del 747 JAL , più grezzi e rivestiti in nylon. Innanzitutto già dalla forma, when compared with those of JAL ( look here and here ) appear larger and more solid , and have a separate leather pillow for the head. U na the blessings of these seats is the retractable footrest (highlighted by the square in the photo above): JAL absolutely absent in 747, to vary relative position of the legs. Another point in favor of these seats is that are deeper and softer than the 747 JAL, recline up to a maximum angle and the movement of upper slide reclining the seat slightly forward, making the position a bit 'more convenient . The PTV, personal multimedia entertainment system when it works (I remember a Tokyo-Rome with PTV AZ broken, damn ...) does it very well and is more advanced systems MAGIC-1 and MAGIC-2 installed in the economy class of 747 JAL: films are in Italian (clear option not available on JAL) and viewable on demand, as if watching a DVD (which is why they call AVOD , Audio Video On-Demand ), while systems JAL films are screened in a loop of dedicated channels, so if you decide to beginning your watching a film that has already started, wait the end and wait to begin again, very bad. shields Alitalia systems are slightly larger than those systems JAL, and there are some nice options such as phone system, namely the ability to call a friend in a place far from our entering the number of its place in telephone handset that is in the back of the remote control system. 
Here we are at our place: when m'imbarco in an intercontinental flight I always hope that the empty seats next to me are not employed by anyone to even dare to have more space and a bed high altitude, but this only happened once in a total of 8 crossings between Italy and Japan (see here ) ... 
( Photo by David Cassanelli ) Our beloved ground operators load the pallets full of luggage in the hold of the 777 ... and we're ready for takeoff. .. (More. ..) (Here the first and third party ...)
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