RE: Hate particular Airline/ Aircraft?

Of course price isn’t the only means of comparison. I addressed the legroom/teabag/security issue in my very long last post as well.

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RE: Hate particular Airline/ Aircraft?

Other than the occassional sounds from the flightdeck, I never listen to the onboard audio, anyhow. I always bring my own form of entertainment(magazine, CD player, tetris, etc.). Even on 14 hour flights to Sydney, I’ll watch only 1 out of the 4 movies, sometimes 2(or a fraction thereof). As long as the Johnny Blacklabel is free, I’m good to go! I was merely making a comparative point. It’s all good BigBen!

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RE: Hate particular Airline/ Aircraft?

UA’s domestic service is just as good as their international service. A recent UK travel publication that I read, voted United as the best airline for international business travel, whatever that means. I’ve flown on a couple of European airlines(not to mention any names or anything) within Europe, where the aircraft didn’t even have audio! And these weren’t classics, I’m talking about A319/320/321’s. One thing about United, is if you’re not getting video, you’re at least getting audio on every flight, and they’re the only airline in the U.S. that offers audio from the flight deck. The only exception to this was their 737-200’s, and they’ve pretty much been phased out by now, I believe. Those were pretty much in use on the east coast, so I never flew on them. The food is just as good on domestic as it is on international. Furthermore, I once flew Mexicana from CUN to LAX, roughly a 5 hour flight on an A320, and there was no audio there, either.

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RE: Hate particular Airline/ Aircraft?

Keltic, you didn’t disturb me at all, don’t worry. I was just kidding. I agree that on board service on most U.S. carriers isn’t up to par with certain other carriers in the industry, per se. As far as what customers in the U.S. expect when they fly, I do believe that it differs than what say, Europeans expect when they do. Southwest Airlines is a very successful company, and they haven’t served a meal on board one of their flights in over 25 years, or however long they have been around. When people purchase a ticket on Southwest, they know what they are getting, basically nothing, other than transportation from point A to point B. I’ll be the first to admit that on segments lasting around 2-3 hours on European carriers, you get more than you would on segments lasting 2-3 on most american carriers. I’ve flown on Lufthansa, KLM, and Austrian Airlines within Europe, no flight lasting more than 2 1/2 hours. Most recently I few on Austrian and LH shortly before that, and I was very pleased with the service, especially on Austrian which I have touted as being the best airline I’ve flown to date. I’ve flown on numerous U.S. carriers but for the most part, I fly United as I am a Premier Executive member with them. Believe it or not, contrary to popular believe, UA’s service is actually pretty good. They even serve above-average meals in Economy class. I can’t say much about Continental, as I’ve never flown them, but I’ve flown business class on United, the service was tremendous, and the food was outstanding. As far as the crews not smiling, I’ve run into good ones, and a few bad ones, mostly good. That will happen on most any airline, I think.

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RE: ‘Swiss’ could leave OneWorld alliance

Qualiflyer was the lamest alliance ever. Weren’t all the airlines in that all from Europe? Also, was the Austrian Group in Qualiflyer or Oneworld before they wised up and joined Star?

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RE: ‘Swiss’ could leave OneWorld alliance

Swiss leaving Oneworld? When were they ever in?!!!

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RE: AIRBUS or BOEING

[updated:LAST EDITED ON 08-06-02 AT 05:54 PM (GMT)]What makes them more uncomfortable than the A340/A330 and A300’s, which are also configured in a 2-4-2 economy class layout? Do those have more room somewhere that the A310 lacks? Obviously it has a shorter fuselage, but fewer seats should solve that problem. I’ve flown on A310’s of KLM, Lufthansa and AirJamaica, and they were just fine.

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