Best British Airlines.

Best Regional: Eastern Airways.

Why? Well, mirroring the comments of others in earlier posts its jsut really good to see a small, independent airline do well and prosper. I know of people who have flown one of their services and they have found them nothing less than highly superior. Had they still been around I’d have said Gill Airways, purely because of their old nativeness to Newcastle.

Best Flag Carrier: British Airways.

Why? Everyone considers BA to be the British flag carrier, lets be honest here! I doubt whether anyone flying from somewhere abroad will have as greater knowledge on the likes of Virgin – British Airways = British. lol.

Best Charter Airline: Thomas Cook Airlines.

Why? Their service has been alot more superior than other charter airlines! They beat the socks off my 6 odd Air 2000 experience, my poor Britannia 767-200 experience and they are a hell of a lot better than the likes of the old 90’s charter carriers like Sabre and IEA. Meals were great, seats were good for the industry standard pitch and the crew were smart and pleasant. Monarch came really close though, the A300 ride was kewl!

Best low-cost Airline: Ryanair.

Why? After some thinking I chose Ryanair because of my experiences with them – punctual, pleasant and cheap, everything I look for. easyJet is an extremely close second though because of their new range of services from my local airport Newcastle. Fly.be actually ranks close as well.

cheers,

LGKR

Difficullt to choose, considering I’ve not experienced many British airlines, more frequently flying my destination’s flag carrier. But anyway, here’s my choices and reasons:

REGIONAL CARRIER – I’d certainly say British Airways and it’s smaller airlines such as Loganair. An extremely large airline with flights to just about every airport in the country.

FLAG CARRIER – A rather pricey airline I’d say. Had a quote from them today for our next holiday. Since Thai was not available, we were forced to “consider” British Airways at a supplement of £300 per person on top of the Thai price. Although my 2 flights with them have been good ones, they’re certainly expensive for what they are, but they offer more routes than any other UK airline still in operation.

CHARTER AIRLINE – I’ve tried Monarch Airlines, JMC Air, Britannia Airways, Airtours International. On long haul, Airtours International with their A330s and PTVs were great, they did after all introduce them before any other charter airline.

LOW COST – I’d say Ryanair. That programme I watched 2 or so months ago was interesting, explaining how Ryanair really dominate the low cost airline industry and how they sneakily make their profits, sometimes deceiving passengers. The future looks bright for them, easyJet also.

regional: Flybe
Flag: BA
Charter: (yeah, whatever)
Low Cost: GO (if they still existed)

Regional – Flybe
Flag – Virgin
Charter – Air 2000
Low Cost – Easyjet

Eastern Airways must be the most expensive airline per average seat!! I somehow guess that since bmi tapped into the ABZ/NWI market, that Eastern have probably dropped their prices. If not, they’ll be dropping the route soon!!

I don’t particulatly like the aircraft that Eastern operate (although I understand why they do on the routes that they serve), I also don’t like their boring colour scheme.

Not an airline I could rate as special from the outside, but, I have never flown with them (and won’t be either if their fares remain so high!!).

The only ones i know much about are BA, Virgin, Easyjet and British Midland

1. Best Regional – bmi
2. Best Flag Carrier – Virgin Atlantic
3. Best Charter – Monarch
4. Best Low Cost – Monarch Scheduled (call me biased, but it’s true!!)

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Regional Airline – Eastern Airways
Flag Carrier – Virgin Atlantic
Charter – Britannia
Low Cost – Easyjet

Originally posted by LBARULES
Wys is a 757 f/o i think..

Correct

Wys is a 757 f/o i think..

The holiday was spotted on Thomas Cook tv on Sky we paid 391each( all inc 4 star hotel in Larnaca )instead of 990 each and a week before we flew we had a letter changingthe horrid night flight to 0700 departureand 1700 retn which was great.The extra leg room seatsthat we booked a few days before were well worththe money also!Will definately go with them again!
Wysiwyg —-are you a pilot for TCX?Do love the new livery,but miss the nice green 757 engines as they climb out overhead on a Seaford departure from LGW!!

I have to agree with Charley, Thomas Cook were great when I came back from Malaga in February much better than anything ive had for years.

I have to say the best service and fun I had on a UK airline was with Monarch on my recent Malaga trip.

1)FLYBE
2)BA
3)JMC(THOS COOK) BY FAR
40EASYJET
we flew to Larnaca with JMC last Oct and were well impressed!

They do seem to have caused some inconvenience for the regions, here to the point where they no longer operate services, but British Airways Citiexpress still offers a standard service. The airline has extremely competent and professional crew along with a modern series of aircraft and the ability of reliable connections through major airports. Although I always preferred franchise carriers of British Airways who I think offered a more regional minded service, Citiexpress still does have a good reputation. Sadly though I cannot travel on them any more.

The reason I am curious about Eastern is that 3 years ago they had a frankly apalling reputation within the industry. Obviously they have gone through massive change in the last year or so, so perhaps they are now a good little operator. I must say their rate of expansion has been highly impressive!

Come on, Eastern are tiny compared to the others. How can they be “great”, even if you like them?

nope, but I’ve gone for the only real independent regional that seems to be going anywhere fast. Lets hope it stays that way and that the likes of Air Wales and Eastern continue to operate independently! 😀

No… but from reports I have heard from relatives and friends who have, I chose them over the others.

Just out of curiosity, 5 people have so far voted for Eastern Airways as their favourite regional. Have all 5 of you flown on Eastern Airways?