Best airline

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Theres now a new airline,Fly Europa.Its in the old air Europa colours and operates a 737-200.It applied to fly schedule services between manchester and stansted to gibraltar.Has a website here but doesn’t seem to be up yet.
http://www.flyeuropa.co.uk/

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Airtours

Not only because my Dad flies for them but people critisize them !!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

They treat me like royality ..

I have been on 34 of their flights and all great!

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Air Europa were very good!

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I always heard the food was very tasty and nice on board Air Cananda,is this true???
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I would say my “Best Airline” would be Air Canada!! I have always found their aircraft clean, new, and comfortable. I like the fact that you can have a flight deck visit for take off and landing or even the entire flight.

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I have been treated to a number of long and short-haul airlines, and my opininion is:

Short-haul:
Premiar (Danish charter airline): Been a while, but I DO have to say that their A320’s weren’t the best as the inflight movies were shown on a tiny screen, which was lowered from the ceiling. I think it was 8-10 rows who had to share a mini-TV each. However, the food was always ok.
SAS: On a EDDF-EKCH flight with their MD90 (I think), there was no in-flight entertainment, except for free edition os assorted Danish & German newspapers. The food was mainly Danish traditional. But now my main critic point: The seats! The seats were, in economy, EXTREMELY small. Being a rather large person, 185 cm, 110 kg’s (I know, I’m trying to quit eating), I had large trouble getting to sit properly in the seat. It wouldn’t had been so annoying if it hadn’t been for the fact that the armrest between the chairs couldn’t be moved. A friend of mine (even larger) also found this extremely annoying.
BA: Not so much. On a A320 (I believe) from EKCH to EGLL, we were treated to a free drink. But that was it.

Long Haul:
I’ve had 4 long haul trips, in order: LHR-Seoul / Seoul-Sydney / Sydney-Seoul / Seoul-Frankfurt. All of them were onboard a Korean Air 744, except for the Seoul-Sydney part, which was onboard a Korean Air 777.
Good:
Free Drinks. Some 20 music channels, split in a ‘western’, a Korean, and a Japanese (or Nippon) music area. 2 different meals available for Dinner (though one was Korean & Spicy, read: algae soup with pepper-paste. This was the same on all occasions). Danish beer on the Seoul-Frankfurt flight (highly appreciated after 5 months in Australia). The flight attendants capability to handle difficult passengers (some guy got drunk & high on the Seoul-Sydney leg, and had to be restrained. Unfortunantly for me, he was placed in the rear area of the plane, and I was sitting on the last row. He cried. All night.) Inflight entertainment (They showed some different sports programs as well as some 30 minutes of CNN, quite interesting). Oh, and let’s not forget their will to let passengers get a free upgrade (as my friend got.. *sigh*)
Bad:
The flight attendants couldn’t understand a descent word of English (Took me 20 minutes to explain what a beer is). Inflight movies (half is Korean, with _no_ subtitles, at least not on my flight. There was english speak, but it was rather questionable. The english movies (such as Mission to Mars) was only showed in half, then it was stopped, never to return).

And a last note: Due to some different matters, my return flight had to be rebooked on the day of my flight. To my appreciation, I could be rebooked from Sydney to Frankfurt via Seoul, BUT they wouldn’t fix the last leg (Frankfurt-Copenhagen) since it was a different airline. But when I arrived, I still had to talk to the local Korean Air office to have my flight rebooked. That was a bit annoying as it gave me some trouble with my parents who were going to pick me up in Copenhage. I was approx. 2 hours delayed because of it.

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Just got back from flying BMI (EMA-PMI-EMA). The drinks were free on the flight but I’d have to agree that the meals were poor. OK on the way out (breakfast) but the return was poor, chicken or pork (we’re still not sure now) with a kind of gravy with a horrible taste, served with rice and cabbage.

I think on flights where there is no choice they should feature a common dish that most people will like instead of these specialist dishes.

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On airlines where the drinks are ‘free’ or complimentary, you are probably paying for them in your flight ticket.

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I don’t think much of BMI’s in flight sevice ever.On my trip from LGW-MIR,we were given a horrible dry chicken dish,some pasta,a hard role,some kind of cheese and crumbled biscuits and a disgusting strawberry moose!Also i don’t see the point of paying for your drinks on board?when most airlines such as Virgin’s are free.

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BD doesn´t offer good food any more, at least in European flights. I have flown a couple of times and the only thing I got, paying a high fare a single salad…..and a horrible Mousse. The worst inflight service ever.

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In my opinion the best short haul company have got to be British Midland,comfortable,good food , and good service,I cant comment on long haul companys as I’ve never flown long haul ,yet

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My favourites are (in no particular order) Air France for their polite, friendly cabin crew. Finnair for their polite crews and comfortable aircraft (pity the MD82s will soon be replaced) and SABENA – simply incomparable with their ace cabin crews, Belgian beer and the fact that they are based in Belgium.

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The best airline which i have travelled with has to be Palmair on a BAe 146 from JER-AGP.A very good service from the cabin crew who were very polite and helpful,the plane and food was nice and comfortable.I have have normally had bad experiences with chater airlines,especially Brittannia but this service was very good.My local airline Aurigny and British European are also very good.I have to say my worse airlines have to be BA and BD as there cabin crew are not that helpful and are very rude.

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If they were still in the skies I would have to say that it was DanAir. Now adays I dont really know…. probably Air 2000

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I have to say that entertainment is also a very critical factor, especially on long haul flights. Virgin Atlantic would have to be my favourite, 12 movie channels, computer games and the really cool skymap on their A340’s and 747-400’s. Plus good service to match. BA were poor last time I flew with them as there was one TV screen for about 30 rows and as everyone had to watch, all of the films and other programmes were edited, something that I really hate.

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agreed, its quite hard to say about the best airline. Every airline in my opinion is good for something. Its very hard to name one airline, but i like Lufthansa, Jet Airways, SIA and the best business class i have encountered is that of Ansett Australia’s.

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Well it´s hard to say. Some are puntual, some reliable, some with a nice livery or impressive inflight service…..but lacks in other aspects. But which offers a global good quality. My bet is Lufthansa. Not the best in many aspects, but quite effective in general terms.

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I would have to say Monarch Airlines and British European. They both offer punctual flights, clean aircraft and excellent customer service.

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I haven’t flown on too many, but I like Northwest the best. I guess I could say KLM too since they are partners. I liked American as well, but NWA is my favorite.