What is your favourite airline?

micro · Post by **micro** » Wed Sep 29, 2004 12:51 am

Finnair: Flight was good but they operate airport busses which connect Helsinki with its airport, and the windows of those busses are completely covered with advertising plastic foil with small holes in it. It is almost impossible to look out from the inside, especially when it's raining. Really annoying!

groentje · Post by **groentje** » Wed Sep 29, 2004 12:54 am

I never flew, except for a little sport plane in the sixth grade (I was 12...)
I heard SN Brussels isn't too bad, but a bit pricy, and Singapore Airlines has one of the best reputations...

micro · Post by **micro** » Wed Sep 29, 2004 1:02 am

Osku-82 wrote:
micro wrote:Ryanair: Add 4 hours for bus rides to every flight because the airports they serve are ridiculously far away from everything.
... and subtract at least 200 euros from the price. From some airports you have to take a bus ride (goddamnit, I hate to ride a long-haul bus!!! .) but at least Stansted, their hub, is served just as well as other London airports. I wouldn't call the train "express", though, as it is as "fast" and noisy as a local train. But it's good there's usually enough room for luggage and all.

Even when the Ryanair flight was "free" (as they sometimes are) it's often not reasonable: Ryanair adds taxes and a credit card fee (though there's no other option than paying with credit card!) and Stanstedt Express is expensive with its 30€ return. The bus ride at the other end of the flight will cost about 15€. And the Ryanair flights are often at stupid times of the day, like you have to go to London in the evening and depart from London in the morning, so you have to spend two more nights in London. This is why I think I save money if I take BA or Lufthansa, even when they charge 150€. And it saves me the hassle.

Viperazzi · Post by **Viperazzi** » Wed Sep 29, 2004 1:11 am

micro wrote:Finnair: Flight was good but they operate airport busses which connect Helsinki with its airport, and the windows of those busses are completely covered with advertising plastic foil with small holes in it. It is almost impossible to look out from the inside, especially when it's raining. Really annoying!

At least some of the advertisements in other buses and trams have been transparent. I remember seeing an ad in a movie theater which was on a door window. It was only visible from the other side. You could only notice that the other side was a bit tinted.

But yes, if they still use old materials, it is really annoying!

eurobillsandcoins · Post by **eurobillsandcoins** » Wed Sep 29, 2004 3:42 am

Singapore Airlines was good, but their quality of service is declining due to cost-cutting. Breakfast from Hong Kong to Singapore on Raffles Class (Business Class) was no more than a small miserable, danish and muffin. What happened to full breakfast of eggs and sausage? They also tend to treat the Asian customers worse, they sometimes ignore them, and serve the foreigners.

groentje · Post by **groentje** » Wed Sep 29, 2004 4:40 pm

Another myth in airlines land destroyed...

Dakkus · Post by **Dakkus** » Fri Oct 01, 2004 10:42 am

I myself don't use Ryanair, because Tampere is a bit too far from where I live. But if I lived in Tampere or north from it (as almost 40% of Finns do), I would really appreciate not having to sit the extra 2 hours in the train to get to Helsinki. So, although for some people the airports are a bit too far away, there are also some people for whom it's not that way.

BTW, I wonder if the Estonian people use the Helsinki-Vantaa airport nowadays? V Bird flies from there and it's only a few hours and some 20-30€ by fast ferry from Tallinn to Helsinki. So, it can very well be a lot cheaper coming through Finland.

micro · Post by **micro** » Fri Oct 01, 2004 11:05 pm

Osku-82 wrote:But yes, if they still use old materials, it is really annoying!

I've seen that stupid window-covering foil on many buses. It seems to be a sort of fashion among bus companies around the world. In Hamburg they also had buses with total window covering and later switched to partly covering which is also annoying but you can at least find seats with unobstructed view.

The foil is opaque and has small holes, about 1mm in diameter and 1mm distant from each other. The foil is applied to the outside of the bus or train.

BogPoet · Post by **BogPoet** » Sat Oct 02, 2004 8:28 am

Air France!

(Well, it's the only one I've ever flown in... Lisbon-Paris-Göteborg and back last November...)

CCCP · Post by **CCCP** » Sat Oct 02, 2004 8:45 am

finnair

aplfi · Post by **aplfi** » Sat Oct 02, 2004 9:15 am

Fireball wrote:Ryanair! cheap

MacLord · Post by **MacLord** » Tue Oct 05, 2004 2:31 pm

Air Luxor = No Way

Batavorum · Post by **Batavorum** » Wed Oct 06, 2004 9:13 am

I flew once with aeroflot (do they stil exist?).

Was a nice experience, flying in a tupolev, losing a filling in a tooth, arriving in Moscow during a snowstorm.

It was not my most luxary flight but certainly the most interesting one.

Dakkus · Post by **Dakkus** » Wed Oct 06, 2004 10:36 am

Batavorum wrote:I flew once with aeroflot (do they stil exist?).

Yes, they do. And they've even got their old logo with the hammer and sicle left

golfinha · Post by **golfinha** » Wed Oct 06, 2004 1:20 pm

TAP Air Portugal.

As far as I know it is the best company in the world. At leat in security terms, in all of it's years flying there is only one register of accident, and I believe whith no deaths, only a lot of people that are still scared of flyins (after about 20 Years) becauser they landed on watter.