Review: Aegean Airlines business class Athens to Dublin on the A320neo

Breakfast time when flying business class is not my favourite. However, I was looking forward to seeing what Aegean Airlines offered on Athens to Dublin, as I found their inflight meals in business class to be very good indeed.

Since I was on a status run, I flew in to Athens in economy class and cooled my heels in the main terminal for a bit. As soon as the Aegean Airlines extra-Schengen lounge opened, I hot footed it in there and chilled out for a couple of hours.

Boarding

For some reason boarding with Aegean is always a bit chaotic. Apart from London Heathrow, every other place seems to be a bit of a free for all, negating any kind of priority. I’m also quite miffed a business class ticket gets you Group 3!

Anyway, once I had navigated the scrum around the boarding gate, a friendly agent scanned my boarding pass. From there, I did the usual walk down the aerobridge to the plane.

A3630 – Athens to Dublin (ATH-DUB)
12 December 2025
Airbus A320neo – SX-NER
Seat: Business Class 1A
Departure: 08:45 Arrival: 11:20

A cheery “Yassas!” greeted me from the crew, and the basket with sweets was offered. I took one and made the very short walk to my seat in the front row.

Aegean’s A320neo Cabin

As you can see on the AeroLOPA seat map, the front row has more room than all the other rows. I like the feeling of spaciousness, and the nice tray in the middle seat.

While all the other passengers were boarding, I took the time to have a little look at the safety card. This is a full four pager, covering everything you need to know. Once the foot traffic had abated a little bit, the crew came around with the welcome drinks. These are orange juice, water and Greek sparkling wine. The only thing stingy about Aegean is the pour of the sparkling wine. On every flight, the water and juice and near full and the sparkling wine is a finger width in the glass. It looks cheap!

Lets fly from Dublin to Athens!

Eventually everyone was on board and we had the safety demonstration. This is given in Greek and then in English, which makes sense since the plane was going to Ireland. We took off and climbed into the clear morning air.

I perused the menu and soon the crew came by with the hot towel service. Once done, tablecloths were laid on the seat trays and it was almost time for breakfast.

Toilet Time

However, I decided it was time for a pit stop, so I flipped my tray over and popped into the forward toilet. As it was the beginning of the flight all was spic and span.

Since virtually all aircraft toilets are the same, there is nothing much to report. Liked the branded wipes of course, that’s not something you see every day.

Breakfast Time

I selected the Crepe with Scrambled Eggs, Turkey Fouantré, Graviera Cheese, Mushrooms, Spinach Bechamel, and Feta Cheese. I thought that sounded nicer than the Croque Monsieur, which is often a go to on Aer Lingus. This came with a seasonal fruit platter, yoghurt, bread and jam.

Devoured it all with relish. Seriously, one of the better airline breakfasts out there. I asked for and received an extra croissant as I wanted to use up all the jam. After that I basically chilled out for the rest of the flight until we landed in Dublin.

Overall Thoughts

I would choose Aegean Airlines business class for a flight from Athens to Dublin over the competition every day of the week and twice on Sundays. It’s just a very good product, with all the bells and whistles, such as inflight Wi-Fi, great food, friendly crew and so on.

Naturally I was particularly pleased to have no-one sitting next to me, which made the flight even nicer. I’m quite happy with Aegean and see why the airline is so well regarded amongst European frequent flyers.

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