Emirates; fantastic planes, more comfy economy, and smoking hot stewardesses. I'm also a big fan of KLM (partly because it goes straight to AMS) and Lufthansa.

Low cost: FlyDubai - cheap, decently comfortable and pretty good-looking stewardesses.

Pegasus is probably the worst in terms of comfort but they have some really good prices and are pretty reliable so I have no problem flying with them.

I avoid any US-based airlines whenever possible; the experience is sub-par compared to Gulf Arab and European airlines. The staff is usually made up of middle-aged uptight she-men who have no idea what hospitality is about.

Quote: (03-29-2018 12:35 AM)Tail Gunner Wrote:  

Quote: (03-02-2018 10:34 PM)Rossi Wrote:  

I noticed something in United States.

Why do most of airlines in United States have dinosaur female flight attendants?

In the U.S. another disturbing trend, if you sit in an aisle seat, are the overweight flight attendants with wide hips that slam into you as they stampede down the aisle. U.S. airlines would rather pander to political correctness than do their best to provide even a barely competent flight experience for their customers.

Asians in general, but the Chinese in particular, find such thinking completely absurd. They do not care about gender rights, inclusiveness, hurt feelings of the ugly or overweight, or anything else. Guilt is not something you will find in their vocabulary.

Meanwhile, Western civilization continues to castrate itself by evolving into one big clueless egalitarian clusterf*ck. The airlines are simply one symptom.

The airlines will get sued to hell if they go back to the old ways of hiring hot young stewardesses. It's a microcosm rather than a symptom IMO.

I just had a shitty experience with TAME Ecuador. They are a piece of shit.

I booked a flight to Galapagos on their website in January and flew there mid-February for a couple weeks. It's a great place and you should check it out.

20 hours before leaving Galapagos to go back home I get an e-mail that the flight is cancelled and rescheduled one day later.

The next day, when I got to the airport they refused to check me in unless I paid $100 because they said I fraudulently represented myself as an Ecuadorian citizen when I booked the flight back in January in order to get a lower airfare.

Completely untrue, but they had me by the balls and I paid, but I disputed the charge with my credit card and got the money back.

Stay away from TAME Ecuador!!

I've been fortunate that while extensively traveling the most I've had is a 30 minute delay a couple of times.

So, therefore, I love (at this current time):

Easyjet
Ryanair
Loganair
Flybe
British Airways
Jet 2
Lufthansa
KLM
Air France
Norwegian
TAP
Iberia
Air Baltic
Blue Air
Corsair
Wizz Air
Alitalia
Croatian Airlines
SAS
Luxair
Aer Lingus

Its easy to hate all the low budget airlines. That being said if your flying on the cheap you get what you pay for. So no reason to hate them (then rebook).

Though personal favorite are some of the foreign carriers. Such as Interjet and Qatar Airways.

I was recently on Alaska and thought I had thrown my phone charger away accidentally. I asked the flight attendant if she could look for it. She did. Then I found it on my own anyway. I apologized. After this experience, Alaska definitely goes on my list of good airlines.

I like JetBlue, Southwest, Alaska, and Frontier.

I hate American.

I'm okay with United, Delta, LATAM Perú, Interjet, and Aeromar.

I sort of hate AeroMexico, but will give them another chance.

i fly swiss for 90% of my european flights. the perks with miles and more are lounges and sometimes upgrades. swiss is punctual like their watches.
i fly delta when i go to the states (as they are one hop away). no issues with them even though the hostesses are old and big, they are very friendly.
i flew tap a few times, and its true...porra girls are hot!

Domestic US - Alaska/Jet Blue/Virgin are the best by far. Alaska recently bought Virgin and it and Jet Blue are basically mirror images of one another--both fly cross country and have some limited international flights (mostly to Mexico/the Caribbean) but Alaska doesn't have any routes within the eastern half of the country nor does JB within the western half. Of the major carriers, Delta and American usually beat United and Southwest (everyone loves SW but I can't stand it, maybe if I flew it more than once every 2-3 years I'd have high enough priority to avoid getting stuck in a middle seat every time I'm on it).

International - Singapore, JAL, Cathay Pacific in that order. Air Asia is pretty great too for what it is (the spicy Thai chicken dish they have is the best meal I've ever had on an airplane, including Singapore business class). Don't have any recent experience with the European carriers and I won't give my money to the Gulf carriers unless I absolutely have to (so far never had to).

I really don't like Delta. They have too air crafts that should have been retired by now. Complete with tube TVs.
Passengers often suffer severe engine noise and cabin pressure issues on Delta.

Jet Blue is generally nice, and have good deals quite often.
I've flown on most US airlines, but nothing noteworthy for the most part.

For anyone considering a recon mission to Ethiopia without fully committing to it, I'd recommend Ethiopian Airlines for an international trip.

This way, you can have a layover in Addis Ababa and explore the city for a day. I have done this twice.
They have 23-hour layover options, so you can spend nearly a full day in the city, at almost zero cost to you.
They're perhaps one of the only low-cost airlines that offer hotel and meal vouchers for all layovers over eight hours.

So, you arrive Addis Ababa at 8 pm for instance, they give you a hotel voucher, and direct you to their provided hotel shuttle bus.
You get free meals at the hotel. If your next flight is at 3:30 pm the next day (like mine was), then all meals are included. Dinner, breakfast and lunch.
Next day, the shuttle bus picks you from the hotel back to the airport.

Hit the city, and if you know what you're doing, you might even get you a nice Habesha girl to come enjoy your free lodging with you.

I really hate Ukraine International Air between JFK and KBP (Kiev). Old 767s that are really crowded. Gate agents that excel at "service with a snarl". A waiting area (Gate 12) that is far too small for the number of people on the flight, has terrible air conditioning and the passengers waiting were obnoxious. The flight attendants were obnoxious, the food was absolutely the worst I have ever had on a plane and it was painfully cramped. Never again.

I will say that the 737-800s they fly in Europe are in decent shape and I would be willing to fly on one of them again.

Love: Turkish Airlines

Hate: Ukraine International

I also hate Ukraine international Airlines.

The worst is the low class uneducated rude passengers (a good reflection of Ukraine's population).

Last time I took it, I had a fight with a few aggressive drunk guys and there was absolutely no security in the plane. Only female useless air hostesses who didn't give a shit.

So flew Wizzair again and honestly it might have been worse than last time.

Paid extra for the "VIP" package mostly because I needed the extra luggage and it worked out to like $5 to pick your seat, get priority boarding and have them check you in so was a whatever decision... the problem of course being what they deem "priority", I thought it meant what it means but apparently all it means is you get to go and stand on the bus longer than anyone else, which has a priority section that they pack as full as the rest of the bus and then is the last section they let off the bus effectively meaning that you're the last person to actually board the plane.

Was fuming as genuinely have paid extra for a service that ends up being the complete opposite.

Also have to throw in Viva and Wingo from Colombia as both take the budget airline and go to extremes. I did online check in but they require you to actually print your online boarding pass out for them or they try and fine you for not doing it which is just rubbish. They also have no baggage drop off or online check-in service so you have to do their job for them only for them to then do the job again and make you stand in the absurd lines, luckily I was there for the Viva flight 5 hours early because I was only connecting but it took 3.5 hours in the line for them to check in ONE flight. That they want to charge you after you've done their job for them for not wanting to kill a tree really rustled my jimmies.

On a positive for both airlines, they don't like being confronted on their BS so if you cause enough of a shitstorm they eventually become a reasonable business, Wingo went and printed my ticket for me because they literally can't work from a phone (da fuck) and Viva just gave up on trying to charge me extra on everything and just processed it and said they'd get me at the plane but I backed in that they weren't competent enough to actually send that message and was right.

Will say that TUI were actually quite good which was nice as my expectations were super low on that one and they were legitimately good instead.

Quote: (07-24-2018 09:36 PM)TruePro Wrote:  

Love: Turkish Airlines

Hate: Ukraine International

I think best airlines in Europe is easily Turkish Airlines but I think Norwegian is also very good.

Worst ones, Wizz Air, Air Baltic, KLM and British Airways.

Recent new airlines for me:

Aeromexico - I really liked the flight, cabin of their fleet is sleek, great legroom, food is outstanding, fresh papaya and melons for breakfast. The customers are all stuck up Mexicans though. Downside is you have to pay for luggage but it's only around $20 per luggage.

Norwegian: Amazing prices from Europe to USA, dreamliner has the best cabin, good service but you have to pay for blankets and pillows, only £5 or something but still.

Thomas Cook: Not bad service and comfort but entertainment sucks, maybe 5 movies available. The crowd is terrible especially if you fly from Orlando, all chav brits on board.

Jetblue: For a budget American airline I expected much worse, instead everything was great for the price. Legroom is good and so is service but the stewardesses were so fat they bumped into my shoulder every time.

Quote: (07-28-2018 07:38 AM)Mikestar Wrote:  

Jetblue: For a budget American airline I expected much worse, instead everything was great for the price. Legroom is good and so is service but the stewardesses were so fat they bumped into my shoulder every time.

That is a growing pet peeve of mine on U.S. airlines. I always sit on an aisle seat because I like to get up and stretch. All these oversize stewardesses with wide hips smash into everyone as they walk down the aisle. It is absolutely absurd that airlines hire people with this body type to walk down narrow aisles. The U.S. has become a PC cesspool devoid of common sense.

I don't really understand why so many people complain about leg space, service, etc. on airlines.

Big deal, we have limited leg space for a few hours. I could care less if the food is shitty - it's something to eat. I'm okay with sub-par service and comfortability for a few hours

I find it ironic how we are literally flying thousands of feet in the air, at rapid speeds - an idea that was not even existent a few hundred years ago when humans only could travel by foot/train - and yet people have the guts to complain about things like spotty wi-fi, subpar food, and not enough leg space

Quote: (07-28-2018 09:19 PM)Crash_Bandicoot Wrote:  

I don't really understand why so many people complain about leg space, service, etc. on airlines.

Big deal, we have limited leg space for a few hours. I could care less if the food is shitty - it's something to eat. I'm okay with sub-par service and comfortability for a few hours

I find it ironic how we are literally flying thousands of feet in the air, at rapid speeds - an idea that was not even existent a few hundred years ago when humans only could travel by foot/train - and yet people have the guts to complain about things like spotty wi-fi, subpar food, and not enough leg space

I don’t understand this comment at all

You must be short
You must not fly a lot
Is this how you live your life? Not caring about customer service and quality of food?

Flying is suppose to be a pleasant experience. Every year US legacy airlines are finding ways to nickel and dime us, cram more seats into an airplane, and generally not care about how they treat a paying customer.

Quote: (07-28-2018 09:19 PM)Crash_Bandicoot Wrote:  

I don't really understand why so many people complain about leg space, service, etc. on airlines.

Big deal, we have limited leg space for a few hours. I could care less if the food is shitty - it's something to eat. I'm okay with sub-par service and comfortability for a few hours

I find it ironic how we are literally flying thousands of feet in the air, at rapid speeds - an idea that was not even existent a few hundred years ago when humans only could travel by foot/train - and yet people have the guts to complain about things like spotty wi-fi, subpar food, and not enough leg space

I cannot believe that people are complaining about gang members, illegal immigrants, and other thugs murdering thousands of people in the U.S., when only 600 years ago the Bubonic plague wiped out upwards of fifty percent of Europe's population. Come on people, get a grip.

Quote: (07-28-2018 11:08 PM)Mentavious Wrote:  

Quote: (07-28-2018 09:19 PM)Crash_Bandicoot Wrote:  

I don't really understand why so many people complain about leg space, service, etc. on airlines.

Big deal, we have limited leg space for a few hours. I could care less if the food is shitty - it's something to eat. I'm okay with sub-par service and comfortability for a few hours

I find it ironic how we are literally flying thousands of feet in the air, at rapid speeds - an idea that was not even existent a few hundred years ago when humans only could travel by foot/train - and yet people have the guts to complain about things like spotty wi-fi, subpar food, and not enough leg space

I don’t understand this comment at all

You must be short
You must not fly a lot
Is this how you live your life? Not caring about customer service and quality of food?

Flying is suppose to be a pleasant experience. Every year US legacy airlines are finding ways to nickel and dime us, cram more seats into an airplane, and generally not care about how they treat a paying customer.

1) I'm more than 6 feet. Heck, I'm probably taller than you.
2) I fly more than you
3) I live my life in style, but I don't complain like a faggot like you do. If you can't stand one shitty meal in your life, you must be a complete snob
4) "Flying is supposed to be a pleasant experience?". Are you some European? Some French/Dutch snob?

I've noticed that Europeans always want high quality without judging the amount of work or cost/revenue breakdown that went into high inventions like flying. Especially the French and the Western European. You guys have no fucking idea how taxes work in the USA and the volatility of oil prices, especially when it comes to imports/exports, FX volatility, and so on. You are are great at complaining, but when it comes to real logic and math, you guys love sitting on the bench and drinking your tea. Trust me, I know, I lived in the EU for many years.

I personally have experience in the financials of the flying industry and I laugh when I read about posts like yours (I'm American). I would love for you to break down for me what you have about flying specifically. Be real specific. I will respond with specifics too. The problem is that all you travelers think you have all your shit figured out when you really don't know anything about oil costs, flight costs, etc.

Quote: (07-28-2018 09:19 PM)Crash_Bandicoot Wrote:  

I don't really understand why so many people complain about leg space, service, etc. on airlines.

Big deal, we have limited leg space for a few hours. I could care less if the food is shitty - it's something to eat. I'm okay with sub-par service and comfortability for a few hours

Just wait until you get a bad back and the sciatic nerve starts throbbing down your leg while you're mid-route to another continent, stuck in a middle seat, beside one an old fuckhead sleep-apnea fatty snoring and a kid playing candy crush without earphones.

That's why all the big-boys worth their salt travel with oxycotin, ambien, ear plugs, and we try not to drink anything a few hours before the flight because we have the prostates of 80 year olds.

Quote: (07-28-2018 11:08 PM)Mentavious Wrote:  

Quote: (07-28-2018 09:19 PM)Crash_Bandicoot Wrote:  

I don't really understand why so many people complain about leg space, service, etc. on airlines.

Big deal, we have limited leg space for a few hours. I could care less if the food is shitty - it's something to eat. I'm okay with sub-par service and comfortability for a few hours

I find it ironic how we are literally flying thousands of feet in the air, at rapid speeds - an idea that was not even existent a few hundred years ago when humans only could travel by foot/train - and yet people have the guts to complain about things like spotty wi-fi, subpar food, and not enough leg space

I don’t understand this comment at all

You must be short
You must not fly a lot
Is this how you live your life? Not caring about customer service and quality of food?

Flying is suppose to be a pleasant experience. Every year US legacy airlines are finding ways to nickel and dime us, cram more seats into an airplane, and generally not care about how they treat a paying customer.

I can appreciate aspects of Crash Bandicoot's perspective & your perspective lol. I totally stand by Crash's viewpoint, but to your credit, there was a supposed heyday / glamorous era of air travel a few decades ago. Times where the hostesses were hot & you were escorted to the jet via a red carpet lol. But certain things are drastically better now than those old times (important things such as safety). As a business guy myself, I understand that it all comes down to the bottom line in the end (while maintaining safety & efficiency).

Don't like British Airways as most of the crew are faggots or middle aged women

Quote: (07-28-2018 11:39 PM)Crash_Bandicoot Wrote:  

Quote: (07-28-2018 11:08 PM)Mentavious Wrote:  

Quote: (07-28-2018 09:19 PM)Crash_Bandicoot Wrote:  

I don't really understand why so many people complain about leg space, service, etc. on airlines.

Big deal, we have limited leg space for a few hours. I could care less if the food is shitty - it's something to eat. I'm okay with sub-par service and comfortability for a few hours

I find it ironic how we are literally flying thousands of feet in the air, at rapid speeds - an idea that was not even existent a few hundred years ago when humans only could travel by foot/train - and yet people have the guts to complain about things like spotty wi-fi, subpar food, and not enough leg space

I don’t understand this comment at all

You must be short
You must not fly a lot
Is this how you live your life? Not caring about customer service and quality of food?

Flying is suppose to be a pleasant experience. Every year US legacy airlines are finding ways to nickel and dime us, cram more seats into an airplane, and generally not care about how they treat a paying customer.

1) I'm more than 6 feet. Heck, I'm probably taller than you.
2) I fly more than you
3) I live my life in style, but I don't complain like a faggot like you do. If you can't stand one shitty meal in your life, you must be a complete snob
4) "Flying is supposed to be a pleasant experience?". Are you some European? Some French/Dutch snob?

I've noticed that Europeans always want high quality without judging the amount of work or cost/revenue breakdown that went into high inventions like flying. Especially the French and the Western European. You guys have no fucking idea how taxes work in the USA and the volatility of oil prices, especially when it comes to imports/exports, FX volatility, and so on. You are are great at complaining, but when it comes to real logic and math, you guys love sitting on the bench and drinking your tea. Trust me, I know, I lived in the EU for many years.

I personally have experience in the financials of the flying industry and I laugh when I read about posts like yours (I'm American). I would love for you to break down for me what you have about flying specifically. Be real specific. I will respond with specifics too. The problem is that all you travelers think you have all your shit figured out when you really don't know anything about oil costs, flight costs, etc.

Your original post was a complaint to begin with. It’s like calling a person a faggot while they themselves are a faggot as well.

You claim to fly more than I do but you’re okay with the decreasing standards in the airline industry? We can talk about business and numbers all day but as a consumer I want the product to not get worse year after year. This has to do specifically with US legacy carriers.

Singapore Airlines for the win. Curious to see if there are any haters. Second place goes to A380s with 2 seat economy on the upper deck window seats and big storage bins. Certain rows give 2 bins.

Avianca customer service sucks. Asiania is a flying pizza oven. BA business class doesn’t impress much. I’m always in a geopolitical war with a Slav of my same large build for the armrest on Aeroflot. Never fails.

Will be testing a few others in this next year. Premium economy Singapore and American to/from Asia. Norwegian, LOT and WOW economy.