TRIPREPORT | Rutaca Airlines (ECONOMY) | Caracas - Maracaibo | Boeing 737-300

[@dpvisser]

Rutaca sure has come a long way since my youth in the 1970s / 1980s! Thanks for sharing this; seeing CCS / Maiquetía again sure brought back *a lot* of memories!!

[@mohamedthariq6629]

Welcome to srilanka

[@maxart3392]

One of the few 733 fitted with winglets.

[@Cagataytt]

I miss your old intro music🙁🙁

[@lp3ligr0l]

It has not change but this music is usually used for the brutality honest series and the intro it's also different

[@RjPlayZ_YT]

Same

[@lionheart.5983]

It definately changed. When was the last time they used the old intro? ​@@lp3ligr0l

[@Onboard_flyer]

Rutaca airlines! Amazing you’re back in Venezuela. Thanks for the video.

[@mohamedthariq6629]

Welcome to srilanka

[@cesarjccs]

6:38 You said a little commun mistake; that's not the view of Caracas. That's the view of Maiquetia City, which belongs to Vargas State. Maiquetia Airport serves Caracas DC as its principal airport.

[@Snakeguy340]

I flew on a 737-300 in 2019 from Reus to Leeds, reg G-CELE. Thing was built in 1988!

[@andersonyu9607]

Cool, I live here and I´ve never had flight with Rutaca. I often fly with Conviasa or Laser. Thanks for the video !

[@tedbernstein3809]

Great Post! That you ventured into a really dangerous place to give us this review makes your efforts meaningful and well appreciated by those of us who so comfortably watch these goings on with armchair access. I will never forget the Cubre Libre drink I enjoyed on a Viasa DC10 from Miami decades ago... and even way back then... Venezuela was an adventure!

[@freeculture]

Viasa was a whole different thing, it was sold and dismantled completely in the 90ies. A decade later a now deceased president wanted to have a State airline again, and made Conviasa from scratch but its not even a shadow of what Viasa used to have. Honestly, i think Rutaca its pretty much ok, Venezolana is scary and i used to flight with them because it was the cheapest way to go from CCS to POS and back... They would always put their round sticker in the back of your passport so its impossible to forget.

[@DevBoyjonauth]

Great trip report and thanks for posting.The cabin interior looked very nice as well as clean and comfortable. 😊✈️

[@Avian811]

This is the best person to give us information on airlines ❤

[@Shorts88898]

Hello everyone ❤

[@dodoubleg2356]

@2:40 you said Conviasa had a single A340-600, however the A340 in the clip appears to be a -300 variant. Just curious.

[@gerardoynciarte2351]

I haven't been back to Venezuela and my hometown of Maracaibo y many, many years and this video brought pleasant memories. Thank you!

[@nurrizadjatmiko21]

I flew onboard the Boeing 737-300 Classic 3 times in my life. In fact, the 737-300 is the first aircraft that i've flown on my first ever flying onboard an airplane i think 16 years ago. Truely a classic airliner👍

[@fercho4x4]

Flight is the vintage airplane ✈️ holy cow

[@WorldHistorian1845]

Amazing video as usual! I love your channel!

[@aviavik]

Very interesting situation in Maracaibo with jetbridges. Looks like they are very outdated and in a bad condition to the point when they are not operational anymore?

[@freeculture]

A few years back, Venezolana's 2 planes were doing Caracas (Simon Bolivar) Port of Spain (Piarco), i did that route a few times. As you may know, they have an MD-80 and 737-200, that Boeing is straight from the 80ies... In the last flight there was a weird high pitch noise in the cabin during the entire flight. As far as i know, currently Venezolana is mostly doing Caracas - Santo Domingo. I'm honestly surprised you learned about that minuscule airline, unless you somehow learned about their web site venezolana dot aero. That MD-80 punches you to your seat during take off, or the pilot loves to show off, which might not be necessarily safe. Last time he didn't bother centering and throttle down when entering the runway, we went from zero in the taxiway into the runway at full throttle already that was very unnerving, tho i guess the chance of asymmetric thrust due to sudden failure of one of those tail engines wouldn't affect as much. If you want to know, that flight takes about 1 hour, roughly the same as going to Maracaibo, very rarely you could even get some snack inflight. The ticket used to be about 200 USD in 2018 or so.

[@ryanfrisby7389]

Excellent video Felix!

[@bahaviation2070]

How do you know it's felix?

[@vanessainthesky]

@@bahaviation2070you could see his reflection while he was still at the airport

[@ryanfrisby7389]

@@bahaviation2070 Simon doesn’t tend to visit South America or fly on smaller airlines and David has been doing voice overs in all of his videos lately

[@petrocha]

Gracias por grabar un video en mi pais. 👏👏👏

[@hectorcruz127]

Nice video never heard about them memories when I use to work the 733❤❤

[@AlexanderAO]

Welcome to MARACAIBO!!!

[@asdrubalivan18]

I've flown Maracaibo a few times. Small airport, not too much to see. That being said I loved your video, I saw a Rutaca a few days ago when I was flying from Barquisimeto to Panama, the livery is gorgeous

[@freeculture]

None of the airports in Venezuela is "big", the "biggest" one is that one in CCS, just couple of runways parallel to the terminal, an old design from many decades ago. Even the Concorde landed there in the 70ies, back when Venezuela was much more wealthy...

[@rezaalan3991]

Great flight. First thing came in my mind about this country is Copa America 2007, and one venue I remembered is Maracaibo. Unfortunately you got flight replacement many times in this country, one of the reason is few passengers.

[@aviationazzurraita1486]

can you do the flight caracas-porlamar with the md83 of laser airlines?

[@sintoniadx]

Muy bueno el video. 👍

[@Aviones654]

Hehehe I know that’s normal in Venezuela in vacations I normally fly in a MD-80

[@be1ofthem]

On Friday evenin' there is a Conviasa flight that goes from Caracas to Porlamar on the A340-200, it is a domestic and a regular flight with that aircraft, I invite you to take it one day and document it for the channel, greetings

[@Nelkson]

Welcome to Maracaibo.

[@supman4523]

I would love it if you guys review cebu pacific next, what they're doing with the a330 neo is really cool

[@MigeruSama1991]

My last flight in Venezuela was precisely in one of the Estelar's 732.

[@sushi777300]

I love flying on classic birds ❤

[@mohamedthariq6629]

Welcome to srilanka

[@fifaseed]

amazing work!

[@Cheemsdavenezuelanbarcafan]

Ah, venezuela, my home country.

[@JustIsaac134]

I flew a 737-400 and -300 on TAC From PNR-BVZ u should make a vid on them

[@pabloaristobulorodriguezro6123]

Ese aeropuerto está deteriorado y las mangas de abordaje oxidadas. Increíble que una ciudad como Maracaibo con su importancia regional, tenga un aeropuerto en ese estado, el cual en los años 90's era modelo de arquitectura y desarrollo.

[@akhilmr1743]

That music which introduce your video earlier was soo good and i misses that😊😊

[@nilswijnands662]

South African Airways has also a 737-300 but without winglets i flew it from Durban to Johannesburg.

[@NonoBelune]

the 737-200 of venezolana is one of the oldest commercial planes still active in the world ..... CRAZY!

[@lukelee6421]

New intro!

[@julioc4978]

Great video, Not many videos from Aviation in Venezuela lately. I always wondered how they get parts for those planes as the country is sanctioned. It is more expensive to operate those flights below capacity. I prefer the E190 than the A340 lol Cheers

[@colincofield3747]

Was thinking the same thing.

[@herbertcourtesie2459]

These airlines aren't under sanctions, so parts are available if they can earn enough. As you notice occupancy is low. No idea how they manage to survive.

[@XBarajasX]

Old Boeing 737 parts are the most easy to find in the world. Venezuelan fleet is usually old but there has not been an acccident due to mainteinance in decades. Plane tickets are expensive, that route one way costs at least 80$-90$ for a 1 hour trip. Fuel is the only thing subsidized for private airlines

[@Aviation_of_Houston]

I flew on a 24 Years old American Airlines B737-800 from MIA to IAH on July 1, 2024!

[@largezo7567]

Were there any blackouts or other issues at the Venezuelan side?

[@freeculture]

In one of my POS - CCS return trips (with Venezolana), there was a blackout and that meant, no xray, pass quickly, yay!

[@FastMan10]

How much was the ticket and baggage limits?

[@NazhanMahmud]

So Good Flight

[@reymondescano9520]

Fly on Arajet 🇩🇴🙌🏻🔥

[@alexismaitan3395]

Que bueno vinieron a mi país bienvenidos 🇻🇪🇻🇪

[@alexismaitan3395]

Graben videos de varias aerolíneas

[@AkseliTurkka]

nice video

[@siddharth0803]

We need more tripreports

[@tommycast8382]

don’t they lose money with only 16 passengers?

[@rinotilde2699]

Same question

[@nh19x07]

less than not flying at all

[@lnnthl]

Domestic air travel in Venezuela is highly subsidized by the government.

[@XBarajasX]

State airline is subsidized, private ones only get cheap fuel. Tickets are expensive for the lenght and the old plane it is. However planes are all owned, not leased.

[@dodoubleg2356]

How amazing it’d be to fly on that other carrier using that 737-200!! Content idea 💡 maybe?? 🤔 🛩️✌️

[@Grupocondorrfs]

Conviasa when?

[@RayDrayson]

Big fan

[@jonathanfurtado2191]

Super smooth landing from the looks of it. Just a personal opinion, i would've preferred a bit more than just the subtitles as it would probably give a slightly better and more personalized touch to your amazing content..😊 peace from 🇮🇳 safe travels..

[@sebastianhabeichauch3254]

Mhmm the 340 in the beginning was A343 or 342 , what was the meaning of a 346 ???

[@zaz5190]

There're only 16 passengers and they put you in the back half of the plane, what's logic here?

[@dermann439]

maybe weight balancing?

[@sathveekp.s9873]

Nice air Indias a350

[@emilionoto7079]

❤❤❤❤❤❤❤❤❤❤

[@herbertcourtesie2459]

Welcome to Maracaibo, a city that is trying to lift itself from ruin.

[@leakalley4992]

You triped to the city of my dads

[@AmericaAviations]

Pls do Latam BSB-MCZ

[@crazybytesve]

La mayoría de los vuelos nacionales trabajan a pérdida o con bajas ganancias... Si van casi vacíos.

[@adekcollystyan8677]

Hello🎉🎉🎉🎉

[@Pinn8]

Can you bring back the old intro song please.

[@StatisticsRepublic]

Can you do a Brutally Honest on Air Serbia Belgrade 🇷🇸 - Tianjin 🇨🇳

[@Mesh_potato]

No voice over?

[@AndreiTupolev]

It needs a lot of faith in the maintenance programs of these obscure airlines with elderly equipment, particularly ones in countries that, for political reasons, may not find it easy to obtain spare parts

[@XBarajasX]

This is not the case, these planes are not sanctioned and spare parts come regularly from US.

[@jesus16789]

You came to my home country and traveled one of my favourite Airlines here!! ❤❤❤❤

[@lrg3834]

Good pilots. Too bad the load factor was so low.

[@harrischrisanthidis1007]

We want the old intro back😢

[@mohamedthariq6629]

Welcome to srilanka

[@Ayden_562abc]

Hi

[@HarshVaradAdiraj]

Hi Guys, I am Varad. If you want david or Felix or any other simply aviation flight reviewer to come to India and try the new phenomenal flagship AIR INDIA AIRBUS A350 from Delhi to London. Then Like this comment so much that they have to try it lets do it together. Thank you, Till Then Happy Flying.✈️

[@yoshimanmariokart4572]

I prefer the old intro because I loved the map and music there better.

[@mrkhan2983]

737-300s are over powered airliners !

[@claudioc.sanchezl.8506]

venezuelan descent w spoilers...

[@ejbg96]

Where are all the people? Suffering extreme poverty, maybe

[@mohamedthariq6629]

Welcome to srilanka

[@BestieBearLover]

first

[@sintjagolwicianolwindomar6911]

Hi