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Of all the airlines in the world, the people of Norway like KLM best.

They're not a bad airline, but my gripe with them is that they always had a penchant for "losing" my luggage. This was only when going to the US to visit my parents. I always enjoyed the money I got for buying clothes each day I didn't have my luggage ;-)

The airlines I've had the most favorable experiences with are British Air, SAS, and Finnair. Braathens and Norwegian aren't too bad for flights within Norway. A local flight from Bangkok to Chiang Mai with Thai Airways wasn't too bad either.

Aeroflot was my least favorite...

How about the rest of you? Likes? Dislikes?

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  • Lufthansa is quite nice with lovely first class meals and nice wines. I've only flown them once but the experience was nice. Quantas has to come in at a tie because the quality of service is extraordinarily good. Charming flight crews who absolutely go out of their way for you both domestically in Australia and especially Internationally.

    Delta is just OK, but convenient for me and I have racked up more than a few miles with them, but I must say there have been a couple of very nice flights with excellen
    • I agree with tuxette about SAS. I have only flown with them once, on a trip to Oslo, but their service was very good and the food was also decent. The planes also seemed to be well maintained, and even the turboprop plane I was on for one leg of the trip had a decent ride.

      I generally have had good experiences with British Airways, except in recent years they have started having many passengers transfer from Heathrow to Gatwick or reverse, which is a royal PITA (about an hour coach ride). Truly a pity, bec

    • I would agree that QANTAS are good - only really flown them and a couple of others within Australia (QANTAS has no U because it is an acronym)... Very nice crew and reasonable food...
  • is pretty cheap and all their transatlantic flights have a short stop at Keflavik which breaks up the flight nicely. I like being able to walk around and stretch my legs for a bit after 4 or 5 hours.

    My only beef with them is that in the last year or so they've started charging for all beverages except water. I just think it's petty to charge a buck for a Coke when I'm paying them about $1500 to fly the family somewhere. Plus it's a huge hassle for the steward(esse)s to have to juggle all the different curr

    • Great minds think alike. :-)

      I also praised Icelandair in the thread above. My only complaint was their food -- a couple of times I've felt a bit queasy after eating their food -- and Reykjavik/Keflavik is one of the dullest airports known to mankind. Still, the service is good, they're cheap and it's nice to have that break in the middle of the North Atlantic...

      Cheers,

      Ethelred

      • Reykjavik/Keflavik is one of the dullest airports known to mankind

        It's been too long since the last time I was at Keflavik (1975, I think), when I was about 6 years old, so I don't have a clear memory about that airport :-) In any case, the worst airport I have been at must be post-Soviet Murmansk airport (around 1993) - dull, boring architecture, highly improvised handling of international arrival/departure, lack of maintenance, dirty, etc. Newark is on a definitive second place - the tax free shops su

        • It's been too long since the last time I was at Keflavik (1975, I think), when I was about 6 years old, so I don't have a clear memory about that airport :-)

          It used to be much worse -- they recently expanded it and the modern part isn't so bad. Still dreary and boring, but at least it's stylish, clean, dreary and boring. ;-)

          Their handling of international passengers was also strangely (even refreshingly) haphazard. There didn't seem to be much in the way of security or passport controls -- you just sort

    • I flew quite a bit with them in the past. They had good vegetarian food.
  • Just a random fact about me: I've never been on board of a plane in my life. So i don't even know if i'm afraid of flying or not. I tend to think that not.

    And i do wonder what you have against Aeroflot* :p

    * Come to think of it, the fact that one of their planes once crashed because the captain's kids were playing with the controls should be enough a clue that something's (still) not quite right with that company.

    • I went on a study tour to Russia and Latvia in 1992. We were to fly from Copenhagen to Moscow. As we were going to our gate, we saw lots of lovely, shiny modern planes. And then we saw what we were going to travel in...

      The flight itself was also pretty scary. Several times, it sounded like the engines had been shut off, for a long enough duration that some people on board started screaming, which annoyed the already testy flight attendants. Hmmf.

      The flight back from St. Petersberg to Copenhagen was bett

      • I would hope that the Aeroflot of today is different from what it was 12 years ago (i.e. withbetter service, newer planes, etc), but unfortunately, i don't have much faith in it. They might have changed in appearance (Boeings instead of Tu's), but on the inside, they're still the Soviet airfleet.
  • is what the company sends us out on most often, Its OK, although US Air still uses mainly Turbo-Props out of the local airport here,
    United is ok
    American is ok, unless you are on one of their aging turboprop routes
    Jet Blue is alright
    Delta/ComAir Sucks and is in my opinion the worst!
    Northwest gets my current vote for my best Flying Experiences to date.
  • A local flight from Bangkok to Chiang Mai with Thai Airways wasn't too bad either.

    Chiang Mai is too cosmopolitan for this, but my favorite feature of the Mae Hong Son airport (near the Burma border) is the "Pistol Clearing Booth". Apparently you are (were?) allowed to carry loaded guns on the plane as long as a round isn't chambered. They helpfully provide a barrel of sand so passengers can pull the clip out, point the gun into the barrel and pull the trigger to make sure the gun is clear. There's a big "S

  • ...is Qantas! I've never seen a more competent and well organized service than Qantas.
  • SAS is the only airline I have a frequent flyer card with. It's also the only airline that I've ditched in favour of a more expensive trainride. I like SAS, I really do, but their Internet booking system sucks whale balls through drinking straws!

    Imagine this. You fire up your friendly vulpine type browser and go to scandinavian.net. After waiting for two minutes for the page to load, you discover that their form manipulation javascript is written by braindead monkey-zombies from outer space (and not the go
  • I have used SAS and British Airways quite a lot and find both to be quite good. Air travel is not really pleasant but they've done their best to make it as painless as possible.

    I've also have had good experiences with the first class sections of KLM, their seat/bed structures recline to the extent it is actually possible to sleep without pinching some nerve or other or having to wake up just to turn around.

    Icelandair is nice for going from here (Oslo, Norway) to eastern US, they follow what is close to

    • ...it's just as well you don't get food. Then you're extra hungry for that burger at Blå Rock ;-)

      The trip home to Oslo...blah... there's always the felafel shop...

  • We only have a few domestic carriers down here. These days there are three major carriers - Qantas, Virgin Blue and JetStar. A few years back there were three - Qantas, Australian and Ansett. Qantas bought Australian out and Ansett folded a couple of years ago.

    I have flown on Qantas, Australian, Ansett and several smaller, regional airlines. Qantas wins hands down. Better planes, better service, better food, although Australian had the cuter hostesses. ;-) Qantas also has the better business-class waiting
  • SAS - I call them Special Air Service (apologies to the operation at Hereford), because they've always messed up something. The last time I spent four hours locked up in the boarding room (Kastrup, Copenhagen). It was only after they'd begun boarding that they realized they had a technical problem with the plane and a mechanic with proper tools was ordered from Malmö, Sweden. Nothing wrong with that, except that according to the SAS official, I couldn't leave the boarding room to have something to eat/

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