Which Is Your Choice Of Airline?

Nick-H

The inflight movie?

Well, I'm not a film person, but one has to do something during a ten-hour flight. BA has quite a choice, even in economy. I can usually find one film I can watch among them. One film, one MP3 radio play, some reading, some newspaper, some eating... one gets through it somehow!

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brownboy66

Air New Zealand - Exellent
Qantas - Excellent (great wine with dinner)
Thai - Excellent
Singapore - Sets the pace
Cathy - Excellent
BA - Excellent
Emirates - Fantastic
Ansett - good
Virgin Airlines - good
Continental - good
United - good
Northwest - good
Southwest - cheap, no frills
jet - good

now we start to descend....

Air India - ok
Vietnam Airlines - scary (especially in the early days when they had Tupolov's - much better now).
Aeroflot (so this is who supplied Vietnam airlines)
Camodian airways -
Lao Avaiation - I'll walk thanks.

One of the things I've found about flying is the more you fly - the less easy it becomes. I never worried about it in the early days - but over the course of 10-15 years - enough incidents happen to make flying a bit more of a concern.

For novelty value - Vietnam airlines was my favourite before they joined with Air France. Meals (consisting of a hunk of something in curry) served in an army issue aluminium container. If you were in a tupolev located midway in the plane - you could be next to the escape hatch just below the escape rope (yes that's right - in case of an emergency, open the door marked escape rope - unravel it out the escape hatch and gently lower yourself onto the delta wing). Also - you know when your line up to take off - the pilots puts on full power and your forced back into your seat? Well, on an tupolev you start rolling down the runway waiting for that to happen - and it never does. That's when you realise the planes going as fast as it will go!

Aishah

Most scary airline for me was a small charter plane company running to Lord Howe Island - so long ago I forget the name. They had a fire in one, a crash in another, the journey there we just managed to land and then all planes were grounded for checking because of poor safety standards. When we left we took the first plane to fly after the grounding - there was a terrible hissing sound, as if the door was not fixed properly (I was sitting beside it) and any minute i thought it would break away and I would be sucked out. A week later government Aviation body closed the company's operations totally.

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rikko

Air-India - OK ????

You are being very generous to Air-India, needs to be shut down or privatised.....

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vpsingh

Swiss and Alitalia - horrible food, even that in such small portion. Fly Air France and they will make sure you start hating French. Biman - will prefer Russian roullette.
Among Indian airlines - Air Deccan is not known as Air Dhakkan (can-lid) for nothing.

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kidsan

Yes, i think i might have got a bit of a raw deal...but then it was very cheap (£310 return to delhi) and so maybe they were cutting back as much as they could.
But i did forget to mention that the stewardesses were really quite pretty...definately a real bonus when the only other thing to watch was Robin Williams

Mickey S

On a recent Air India flight between London and Delhi (my first and last with that airline), approximately half the seats either had no functioning reading light, or no functioning video screen, or did not recline. The seat I was assigned actually had no reading light and no video screen - but luckily there were only about 40 people on the entire plane so I could move to a seat that had those things.

The crew also showed the main movie on cabin screens, but it was of very poor quality (think fourth-generation VHS copy on a 20-year-old projector) and the English/Hindi subtitles were unfortunately off the bottom of the screen.

The food was simply unspeakable, as were the toilets.

People were wandering around the cabin even on the approach into Delhi in a violent thunderstorm - some with babies in their arms - but the cabin crew were already strapped into their seats for landing and seemed not to care.

Yes, Air India was cheap - about £250, I think, which was £150 less than BA on those dates, but it was not worth the saving in cost. Next month, three of us are shelling out almost £700 each to fly to Delhi with BA, and have no regrets whatsoever.

Aishah

I posted in another Thread about my friend's experience with Air India from UK to here - she was seated near the toilets which were overflowing out onto the carpet and the stench was horrendous. No one attempted to do anything about it. She said the food was appalling. She is faced with her return trip back with them in December and is bracing herself for it!

Mickey S

British Airways may have their off-days, and a pretty militant union to deal with, but when they deliver they certainly deliver.

London to New York for £29 plus tax each way? Eat your heart out, Ryanair.

atala

An Air India ticket is an excellent choice if you are not travelling from Paris, Frankfurt or London, because then it is a code-share ticket which can be used on almost any European Airline (Austrian, Swiss, Alitalia etc). The advantage of this is that if you need to get an emergency return date you have the option of so many airlines, albeit in the booked sub-class only.

I am not sure whether you also have this option when you have an Air India ticket from Paris, Frankfurt or London, but probably it is the case.

ISN

Singapore Airlines has the best service. I have flown British, Lufthansa and KLM nothing comes close to Singapore Airlines service.

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If you want to hear more horror stories from passenger’s checkout this link

http://www.epinions.com/trvl-Airline...nion_list#list

rachelinindia

jet airways for the amazing selection of bollywood movies, masala filmi!

however they are addictive and the rest of your life will be spent pondering why exactly SRK is a huge star when he has only three facial expressions: suprised, suprised with extra eyebrow action and suprised while looking over his shoulder..

capt_mahajan

That one over his shoulder must be shock, for variety.

Range of emotions from A to B. With due apologies to any fans out here.

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the opoponax

But Rachel, you forgot weepy!

Maybe that one only appears in Kabhi Khushie Khabi Gam, Kal Ho Na Ho, and Devdas, though. Those were the first SRK films I ever saw, so they have a big influence in my opinion of his "range".

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* over shoulder*