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Best/Worst airline you have travelled with?

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Best/Worst airline you have travelled with?

Postby Ludito » 13 Mar 2009, 21:56

The best customer service, confort and food must have been Air France. I could feel the seriousness, refinement and experiece/friendliness of the people.

The worst must be Air Comet (from Argentina/Spain): I was on an 11 hour flight between South America and Europe: The plane looked unsafe, they would give us a really restricted amount of food and one drink, and you'd need to pay for more. They would search bags and take food away before people got on the plane, the seats were damaged and of course they would not be friendly at all!
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Re: Best/Worst airline you have travelled with?

Postby Lee » 13 Mar 2009, 23:03

I've flown with so many that they've blended into one. I remember Malaysian being good.

Iberia lost my bags for 3 or 4 days so I didn't like them! Easyjet are great considering how cheap they are. I flew to Sydney on China Eastern and considering they have no TVs it was quite hard and the planes are quite old and shakey.
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Re: Best/Worst airline you have travelled with?

Postby Flutey » 13 Mar 2009, 23:12

I flew with Thompson to Egypt and I hated it! Not a big fan of EasyJet though!

I love flying with BA and TAP
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Re: Best/Worst airline you have travelled with?

Postby spice_angel » 13 Mar 2009, 23:22

Best : British Airways.
Worst: United Airlines.

I have flown with so many airlines, and I usually like them all. As long as they get me to my final destination, I am happy. But United Airlines is certainly the worst airline ever. I remember on a flight from Mexico to Los Angeles, the seat where I was supposed to sit on was covered in vomit!
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Re: Best/Worst airline you have travelled with?

Postby krtkkarphillmuk » 15 Mar 2009, 08:48

Aloha Airlines:
WAS my favorite, but they went out of business :( (Warm chocolate chip cookies with ice cold milk and free mai tais!)

Southwest Airlines: I love them but I also don't really like them...
I don't like that they have a 'cattle call', non-assigned seating process.
There is sometimes an advantage to the 'cattle call', non-assigned seating process.
The attendants are sometimes in shorts and VERY casually dressed (personally don't have a problem with that, but they aren't really taken 'professionally').
One of the few airlines that still has peanuts as their snacks ;)

United Airlines:
Is awesome when you're in Business/First class! :) Economy and even Economy Plus is okay.
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Re: Best/Worst airline you have travelled with?

Postby Carl » 15 Mar 2009, 14:27

Flutey wrote:I flew with Thompson to Egypt and I hated it! Not a big fan of EasyJet though!

I love flying with BA and TAP

It was awful! And coming back was even worse, seemed to take ages and the seats were so hard :x
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Re: Best/Worst airline you have travelled with?

Postby EmmaChisholm » 15 Mar 2009, 15:57

Tiger Airways (a domestic Australian airline) was the worst ever...

I think Thai Airways is quite good and also Air Pacific was quite good.

I have heard that Singapore Airlines has won awards as the best airline though!
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Re: Best/Worst airline you have travelled with?

Postby VivaMGMVE » 15 Mar 2009, 21:06

Worst: United Airlines
Best: AeroMexico

I've never been on a flight with United that I felt was clean...or on time.
Aeromexico has the best customer service I've had to deal with yet. They are always really helpful and nice, I just wish they would fly more places!
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Re: Best/Worst airline you have travelled with?

Postby DigitalWombat » 20 Mar 2009, 21:51

Best: Hard to choose! Royal Brunei/QANTAS
Worst: Cubana de Aviación
Feeling Australia in the blood...
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Re: Best/Worst airline you have travelled with?

Postby Brandamn » 20 Mar 2009, 22:03

Best: WestJet. Friendly staff each time I've flown with them, the snacks are tasty, comfortable seats, never felt unsafe. Flew with them from Calgary to Hamilton, ON and back several times.

Worst: Jazz Air. Tiny planes, understaffed, not very comfortable. Flew with them from Calgary to Seattle.
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Re: Best/Worst airline you have travelled with?

Postby Vitalina » 02 Apr 2009, 23:25

I fly with KLM quite often, and I like them a lot. Especially when your plane is late, and your connecting one is about to depart without you, you don't have to worry. KLM is good about waiting up.
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Re: Best/Worst airline you have travelled with?

Postby Flutey » 03 Apr 2009, 01:08

Funny enough, I had to stay a couple of hours in Amsterdam when flying with KLM because someone died on board... But they gave us toiletry bags and a 4* hotel to sleep in ;)
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Re: Best/Worst airline you have travelled with?

Postby VivaMGMVE » 03 Apr 2009, 22:01

FrozenGhost wrote:Best: WestJet. Friendly staff each time I've flown with them, the snacks are tasty, comfortable seats, never felt unsafe. Flew with them from Calgary to Hamilton, ON and back several times.

Worst: Jazz Air. Tiny planes, understaffed, not very comfortable. Flew with them from Calgary to Seattle.


What you don't like Jazz?! *shock horror....its like an adventure every flight, I always feel like the stressed out staff is about to knife someone. :D but it may just be the Calgary/Seattle route, not a fan.
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Re: Best/Worst airline you have travelled with?

Postby Brandamn » 03 Apr 2009, 22:25

VivaMGMVE wrote:What you don't like Jazz?! *shock horror....its like an adventure every flight, I always feel like the stressed out staff is about to knife someone. :D but it may just be the Calgary/Seattle route, not a fan.


Well, you do have a point. The knifings did make the flight very interesting. The loss of blood wasn't too fun, but I guess I'm just not looking at the bright side. lol.
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Re: Best/Worst airline you have travelled with?

Postby [Tyler] » 04 Apr 2009, 02:25

Best: Jet Blue; always had great expierences with them. Big comfy chairs, good snacks/food, and TV's for everyone.
I've flown with Continental a million times too, there always great.

TBH, i don't have any bad expierences
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Re: Best/Worst airline you have travelled with?

Postby Vitalina » 08 Apr 2009, 22:05

Flutey wrote:Funny enough, I had to stay a couple of hours in Amsterdam when flying with KLM because someone died on board... But they gave us toiletry bags and a 4* hotel to sleep in ;)

My! Thank God it never happened with me (touches wood). I am stressed out about flying without that additional entertainment.
By the way, th best food I have ever eaten on plane was on Siberian airlines S7. I take this route back home to Tomsk in Russia, and their food is the best ever (and I am not talking about business class). So, if you want to eat something nice on board, take a flight to Sibria :hunny:
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Re: Best/Worst airline you have travelled with?

Postby The_Master » 03 May 2009, 16:03

Ba are the best... but I ain't biased!

Worst airline ever, not just from a customer but an employees POV has to be ryanair. PUKE!
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Re: Best/Worst airline you have travelled with?

Postby CharDudett » 19 May 2009, 02:14

best:
virgin america - brand new planes, each seat has its own tv with direct tv satellite, free video games is a big plus as well... plus you get wifi for a very reasonable price! wouldnt want to fly anyone else
cathay pacific - so roomie, the food is SOO GOOD! and service is wonderful
dragon air - same as cathay, the food is just AMAZING!

worst:
united airlines. ive had the same stewardesses everytime i fly from SF to Shanghai, and they are the meanest bitches in the world! argh! plus its an older plane you cant see the tv screens and their toilets always smell :|

honorable mention:
korean air - best honey roasted peanuts
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Re: Best/Worst airline you have travelled with?

Postby Andie » 20 May 2009, 05:31

Best: Virgin... woah I felt like I was flying first class, they couldn't do enough for you and piled you up with non stop goodies, food and drink, and don't even get me started on the amazing TV games console thing they had!

Worst: Air Berlin... they hated us English and pretty much pretended they only knew German when we needed to speak to them! The time in Berlin was the same too.
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Re: Best/Worst airline you have travelled with?

Postby Jer » 22 Jun 2009, 20:57

Best: Korean Air
Worst: United Airlines
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Re: Best/Worst airline you have travelled with?

Postby CrystleSpice » 26 Jun 2009, 19:20

I really like Aeromexico and British Airways. They give you free booze, free headphones, comfy seats, free food, and free movies, shows, and music during the flight! British Airways also gave me a little pack with slipper socks, a toothbrush and toothpaste, a new, clean blanket, and an eye cover- and I was in coach! Aeromexico is super inexpensive, too!

Worst airline would have to be Alaska- I have never been on an airline that cancels or delays flights as often as they do, even short two-hour flights are always behind. They also charge for pretty much everything!
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Re: Best/Worst airline you have travelled with?

Postby Foxy » 31 Jul 2009, 01:01

Air France is the BEST! :love:
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Re: Best/Worst airline you have travelled with?

Postby IER » 16 Aug 2009, 23:15

Best: Iberia. I've never had any problems with them and have always been quite nice. I went to New York (from Madrid) with them and the flight was fantastic (when we came back the flight was terrible but due to turbulences).

Worst: Air Europa. Not that it was bad at all, but I don't have good memories either.
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Re: Best/Worst airline you have travelled with?

Postby [ben] » 21 Aug 2009, 00:23

best: virgin / continental
worst: varig
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Re: Best/Worst airline you have travelled with?

Postby Galore » 24 Aug 2009, 06:59

I actually really love flying Air Canada overseas... I know alot of ppl hate Air Canada (and normally, so do I, and always take West Jet for domestic, Canadian flights), but when I've flown to Europe with AC, I really loved it. They give you free booze, and have a great entertainment system.

Worst is any American Airline, like United or American Air. Awful.
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