Whats the worst airline you've ever flown?
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The one thats stands out to mind was American Airlines. Would never use them again. Flew from Gatwick to New York - New York to Jamaica, and on return flight Jamaica to Miami and connected back to Gatwick.
The first leg to New York was brilliant, but the flight to Jamaica, the toilets smelt like a cesspit and was rank you could smell the staleness throughout the plane when the door opened, the cabin crew were abrupt and rude (I don't know if it was because the place was full of Jamaicans or working in the stench):D On the flight back to Gatwick the customer service was non existent. I asked for a travel-cot for my baby (which they had provided first flight) they went away and never came back asked about three times, and then after asking again said they didnt have one. The crew behaved has if they were doing you a favour. I don't know if it is an American thing where has a foreigner you should be grateful to enter their country. Swore I would never fly them again.
The first leg to New York was brilliant, but the flight to Jamaica, the toilets smelt like a cesspit and was rank you could smell the staleness throughout the plane when the door opened, the cabin crew were abrupt and rude (I don't know if it was because the place was full of Jamaicans or working in the stench):D On the flight back to Gatwick the customer service was non existent. I asked for a travel-cot for my baby (which they had provided first flight) they went away and never came back asked about three times, and then after asking again said they didnt have one. The crew behaved has if they were doing you a favour. I don't know if it is an American thing where has a foreigner you should be grateful to enter their country. Swore I would never fly them again.
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We had to have a whip round to land, and trust me it was worth every penny just to be able to get off.
Won't book with them again!:(
Yip American Airlines for me too Cabin crew very abrupt and wearing civvy clothes instead of uniforms, you couldnt tell who was staff and who were customers. Heathrow to New York .
To calm them down the owners put down hay.
After a while the goats started to pee and crap in the aisles too.
Also, anybody else old enough to remember DanAir?
I'm surprised none of the staff or passengers have taken them to court as surely it's psychological warfare and against H+S rules.
Please, Jet2, bin the musak, otherwise you're superb. It spoils it.
I hate Ryanair as well, I'd rather walk to my destination than fly with them. Sometimes we've had to use them though if there was no other airline.
Big bummed people should travel with Thomson and Monarch - Monarch especially as they seem to have a bit of extra leg room too
We flew Delta once - an internal flight in the US - they were dreadfully disorganised. At the time we were a family of five and they allocated us 5 seats separated all over the plane - two together and three single seats all spread out. So that was useful - should one adult sit with the two year old or the disabled seven year old ?
However for us Ryan Air really took the biscuit - despite having ample notice they didn't organise a lift to get our wheelchair bound son on board. Instead they strapped him to a board and bounced him up the steps like a piece of meat.
When we landed the other end again they had no lift but we refused to inflict anymore bruises on him and another passenger was very kind and helped my husband to carry him off the plane which was a bit more dignified but still not ideal.
Did we get any apology when we complained? Did we heck they said that their flights weren't really intended for families with special needs and perhaps they were not the right airline for us.
Needless to say we have never used them again.
Load of RAF pilots on board said they were going to 'have a word' with the the pilot!.:D
For shorthaul, Thomson Airways were awful. Just could not move.
They are our airline of choice - we have always been looked after very well by them and they have always been on the ball with our "special needs" as have British Airways when we've flown with them.
The only slight issue we ever had with Virgin was when one of their cabin crew asked me if my son could understand them and he, sitting next to me, answered "My legs don't work but my hearing and brain are fine thank you".
Soon put her in her place
Jet2 are excellent! I was expecting an awful RyanAir/EasyJet experience, but Jet2 is basically like British Airways economy in 1990.
Brilliant for the money.
Mainly due to an engine catching fire on take off.:D
Brittania - purely because they kept us waiting at Mahon airport for 26 hours. Everyone drank their duty free so the virtually the whole passenger list was paralytic and somewhat fractious. To alleviate things when we finally got on board the pilot announced that all drinks would be free during the flight because of the inconvenience- we could have flown on the fumes if we had run out of fuel. It must have been an amazing sight as 300 of us staggered into Gatwick arrivals laughing and singing at 6 in the morning.
Bahamian Airways - f*** me is all I can say.
American Airlines - cheap, cheap, cheap. Ugly stews too.
Tiny seats, crap service, massive delays due to unserviceable aircraft and lies from the staff about what was happening.