My seat: 7E. An aisle seat. Not a heap of legroom.
Fellow passengers: A few Brits, but mainly Swedes heading to London. Plus me and a London-based Kiwi pal.
How full: Seemed to be 100 per cent. This is a busy route for an airline that is the third-largest budget carrier in Europe.
Entertainment: There's free WiFi. The inflight magazine features a travel story about Almhult, the hometown of Ikea. The safety instruction card features a picture of the emergency door with flames outside the window - you don't often see safety info on planes that acknowledges the reality of what happens in a crash.
The service: The staff are a mixture of Scandinavians and Brits. A nice young fella from East London brings us food and drink and strikes up a go-nowhere conversation about New Zealand. He's heard it's very nice.
Food and drink: Two cans of fizzy drink cost $6.50. A pretty average BLT costs another $10.50. We were starving.
The toilets: Clean as a Scandinavian whistle.
Luggage: We paid extra to store one big bag (it can be up to 20kg) in the hold and we loaded up more of our kit in the carry-on bags.
The airport experience: At Arlanda, just outside Stockholm, you can vote on a touchscreen to show how clean you think the toilets are. It's Scandinavia, they're immaculate. The city's fast and reliable rail service links to the airport. "But," my mate points out, "it's f***ing expensive."
Would I fly this again?: Yes. This flight came with a great price and compared with the garish horrors of one or two other European budget airlines, it was a pleasure to fly.
