I’ve flown Aeroflot from Delhi to Singapore, Kabul to Tashkent, Tashkent to Alma Ata, Alma Ata to Moscow, and Moscow to Helsinki, all a LONG time ago, on Russian aircraft.
The only one of these that was “scary” was the flight from Tashkent to Alma Ata in a plane that looked and felt like a bomber conversion. The thing had seats made of aluminum frames and nylon mesh, fer cryin’ out loud, and the pilot flew the thing like it was a fighter jet. Passenger comfort was the LAST thing on his mind.
But, the flight was a successful one, as my present typing attests.
Wow, that’s quite a flight itinerary! Very interesting places to land....
I still remember my flight from New York’s JFK to Helsinki on Finnair.... the 3-letter code for Helsinki was HEL, so my friends and I were joking that “We’re going to HEL!” The train ride from Helsinki to Moscow was frightening, though. It was nearly the end of the Cold War, but military personnel boarded the train halfway to Moscow to check our baggage.... we were 20-year-old American students who were in the Soviet Studies program, so for us it was intriguing and exciting — not so much for our teachers & chaperones....