All US domestic airlines are pretty mediocre. US Airways is worse.
They're currently merging with American, so there's this sort of vague hope they might get better, but it's not looking good. And their operations aren't combined yet anyway, so if it's a US flight it'll still be pre-merger US planes, crews, etc.
Brovid Hasselsmof[Growling historic on the fury road]Registered Userregular
All airlines are pretty terrible. There seems to be this new thing with the budget airlines that in order to do advanced check-in they force you to reserve a specific seat, which they then charge you for. There is no option for "I don't fucking care where I sit, the flight is only an hour". God that winds me up. I got distinctly irate yesterday over spending an extra £5 on a flight, which is ridiculous, but it's the principle!
On top of the other fun thing where I was told to phone a premium rate number to do my check-in, because if you leave it to when you're at the airport they will charge you £70! And they conveniently don't highlight the fact that you can do it online for free. It's all "MAKE SURE YOU CHECK-IN OVER THE PHONE!" And then tucked away in small print or you could do it online I guess if you really want to for some reason.
All airlines are pretty terrible. There seems to be this new thing with the budget airlines that in order to do advanced check-in they force you to reserve a specific seat, which they then charge you for. There is no option for "I don't fucking care where I sit, the flight is only an hour". God that winds me up. I got distinctly irate yesterday over spending an extra £5 on a flight, which is ridiculous, but it's the principle!
On top of the other fun thing where I was told to phone a premium rate number to do my check-in, because if you leave it to when you're at the airport they will charge you £70! And they conveniently don't highlight the fact that you can do it online for free. It's all "MAKE SURE YOU CHECK-IN OVER THE PHONE!" And then tucked away in small print or you could do it online I guess if you really want to for some reason.
Easyjet ask you to pay money for a specific seat, but you can just skip that step of the booking?
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Mojo_JojoWe are only now beginning to understand the full power and ramifications of sexual intercourseRegistered Userregular
All airlines are pretty terrible. There seems to be this new thing with the budget airlines that in order to do advanced check-in they force you to reserve a specific seat, which they then charge you for. There is no option for "I don't fucking care where I sit, the flight is only an hour". God that winds me up. I got distinctly irate yesterday over spending an extra £5 on a flight, which is ridiculous, but it's the principle!
On top of the other fun thing where I was told to phone a premium rate number to do my check-in, because if you leave it to when you're at the airport they will charge you £70! And they conveniently don't highlight the fact that you can do it online for free. It's all "MAKE SURE YOU CHECK-IN OVER THE PHONE!" And then tucked away in small print or you could do it online I guess if you really want to for some reason.
And this is after Easyjet and Ryanair both got much better after a few slaps on the wrist for being terrible and effectively scamming people out of money.
Low cost airlines are great in that they've opened up the world, but I do loathe them. Particularly when I'm not flying with them and security is crammed with people flying to Ibiza who have never been a plane before so they're carrying vast amounts of liquid in their handluggage and decide to contest airport security when challenged. It would be less annoying if priority security was more than just another way into the same queue.
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Brovid Hasselsmof[Growling historic on the fury road]Registered Userregular
All airlines are pretty terrible. There seems to be this new thing with the budget airlines that in order to do advanced check-in they force you to reserve a specific seat, which they then charge you for. There is no option for "I don't fucking care where I sit, the flight is only an hour". God that winds me up. I got distinctly irate yesterday over spending an extra £5 on a flight, which is ridiculous, but it's the principle!
On top of the other fun thing where I was told to phone a premium rate number to do my check-in, because if you leave it to when you're at the airport they will charge you £70! And they conveniently don't highlight the fact that you can do it online for free. It's all "MAKE SURE YOU CHECK-IN OVER THE PHONE!" And then tucked away in small print or you could do it online I guess if you really want to for some reason.
Easyjet ask you to pay money for a specific seat, but you can just skip that step of the booking?
I'm flying to Ireland with RyanAir, and flying back with Aer Lingus. RyanAir are the ones that want you to check-in in advance, if you do it at the airport they charge £70. So I went to do it online and they require me to choose a seat unless I do it less than 10 days before the flight. So okay, I'll do it then.
Aer Lingus force you to choose a seat if you do their Advance check-in which is up to 30 days before you fly. You don't have to if you do the regular check-in, but you can't do that until 24 hours before the flight. However with some investigating I found they will let you check-in at the airport for free.
It's just annoying that they all do it differently, and they are so obtuse about your options, only ever highlighting the ones that cost you money. I guess they rely on people not questioning it.
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Lost Salientblink twiceif you'd like me to mercy kill youRegistered Userregular
Not all airlines are awful! I've had absolutely lovely experiences without fail on Korean Air, Asiana, ANA, and Lufthansa. Delta does a shockingly good job on international flights and frankly getting free drinks on Southwest flights on holidays and your birthday makes up for a lot. Also I've heard Air Emirates and Singapore Airlines are great.
"Sandra has a good solid anti-murderer vibe. My skin felt very secure and sufficiently attached to my body when I met her. Also my organs." HAIL SATAN
Thai air is pretty awesome; if I remember, it was them or Singapore that actually had legitimate SNES's (or something with equivalent game ability) built into each seat with a controller that popped out of the armrest, as well as the usual TVs.
One weird thing I've noticed is that the quality of inflight magazines is amazingly variable; Air Canada's magazine I legitimately look forward to reading because it's really good, and it's fun to practise my French by comparing the English and French versions of the same article. Air Transat (=budget canada -> UK airline) has a terrible inflight magazine, it was poorly written and not about anything interesting; same thing flying Northwest (I think?) in the US. I guess the problem is that they only write about places that they fly to, so that can limit what they can talk about.
But really they're so crappy and rude and the planes are uncomfortable and in bad shape
Also I have never been on a U.S. Airways flight that was on time.
I've flown a lot of short flights with US Airways and always had a good experience with them, but that's mostly been through smaller airports and with their regional partners. I've had mediocre to crappy experiences with American, though, so I'm not happy about the merger.
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Donovan PuppyfuckerA dagger in the dark isworth a thousand swords in the morningRegistered Userregular
I was discussing future plans to visit Europe with my Dad many years ago. I mentioned that I wanted to try and fly Lauda Air as much as I could. His response:
"I wouldn't. With his record, you'd probably end up in a fiery crash."
Just wanted to make sure you weren't trying to go through ORD
Also, just because I can't help but think of it everytime I think of LAS airport, if they had just turned slightly left in Con Air they could've landed at the airport instead of the middle of the Strip
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I seem to be the only person that hasn't had problems connecting at ORD. I can think of....3 different trips I did that with zero delays.
They even had a T-Rex skeleton in the United terminal for a while!
I seem to be the only person that hasn't had problems connecting at ORD. I can think of....3 different trips I did that with zero delays.
They even had a T-Rex skeleton in the United terminal for a while!
If you fly in on a perfectly clear day, you'll be fine.
If someone turns their ceiling fan on too high, or if someone sprays a water bottle in the air, you'll start getting domino delays.
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Lost Salientblink twiceif you'd like me to mercy kill youRegistered Userregular
Good news is when they inevitably cancel all outgoing flights from O'Hare you can in fact go see Sue at the Field Museum. If the blue line trains aren't stopped because someone drove one up the escalator, that is.
"Sandra has a good solid anti-murderer vibe. My skin felt very secure and sufficiently attached to my body when I met her. Also my organs." HAIL SATAN
Good news is when they inevitably cancel all outgoing flights from O'Hare you can in fact go see Sue at the Field Museum. If the blue line trains aren't stopped because someone drove one up the escalator, that is.
For those of you who aren't aware, this is a thing that happened last March.
Smof you just gave me a 70 quid heart attack, but yey I'm flying with aer lingus. I haven't done the check in thing because I have no idea what I'm doing.
Aer lingus have little check in machines in Dublin. I don't know about other airports. Probably not. They don't charge you to check in at the airport anyway.
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Brovid Hasselsmof[Growling historic on the fury road]Registered Userregular
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That is to say, six months.
don't go to wyoming, kids
"Sandra has a good solid anti-murderer vibe. My skin felt very secure and sufficiently attached to my body when I met her. Also my organs." HAIL SATAN
More like US Scareways, amirite?
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Also I have never been on a U.S. Airways flight that was on time.
"Sandra has a good solid anti-murderer vibe. My skin felt very secure and sufficiently attached to my body when I met her. Also my organs." HAIL SATAN
They're currently merging with American, so there's this sort of vague hope they might get better, but it's not looking good. And their operations aren't combined yet anyway, so if it's a US flight it'll still be pre-merger US planes, crews, etc.
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On top of the other fun thing where I was told to phone a premium rate number to do my check-in, because if you leave it to when you're at the airport they will charge you £70! And they conveniently don't highlight the fact that you can do it online for free. It's all "MAKE SURE YOU CHECK-IN OVER THE PHONE!" And then tucked away in small print or you could do it online I guess if you really want to for some reason.
Like, except for maybe Spirit there's not really any equivalent to Ryanair in the US.
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Easyjet ask you to pay money for a specific seat, but you can just skip that step of the booking?
And this is after Easyjet and Ryanair both got much better after a few slaps on the wrist for being terrible and effectively scamming people out of money.
Low cost airlines are great in that they've opened up the world, but I do loathe them. Particularly when I'm not flying with them and security is crammed with people flying to Ibiza who have never been a plane before so they're carrying vast amounts of liquid in their handluggage and decide to contest airport security when challenged. It would be less annoying if priority security was more than just another way into the same queue.
I'm flying to Ireland with RyanAir, and flying back with Aer Lingus. RyanAir are the ones that want you to check-in in advance, if you do it at the airport they charge £70. So I went to do it online and they require me to choose a seat unless I do it less than 10 days before the flight. So okay, I'll do it then.
Aer Lingus force you to choose a seat if you do their Advance check-in which is up to 30 days before you fly. You don't have to if you do the regular check-in, but you can't do that until 24 hours before the flight. However with some investigating I found they will let you check-in at the airport for free.
It's just annoying that they all do it differently, and they are so obtuse about your options, only ever highlighting the ones that cost you money. I guess they rely on people not questioning it.
"Sandra has a good solid anti-murderer vibe. My skin felt very secure and sufficiently attached to my body when I met her. Also my organs." HAIL SATAN
Thai Airways was pretty dope 2
I like BA because I have a tiny chance of random upgrades.
Air Berlin are nice. They give out heart shaped chocolate.
Etihad Regional is awful. They don't have beer.
Wish I could have afforded Delta/KLM, they've never let me down, and I could have avoided O Hare!
I-80? Yeah, whole lotta nothin'.
One weird thing I've noticed is that the quality of inflight magazines is amazingly variable; Air Canada's magazine I legitimately look forward to reading because it's really good, and it's fun to practise my French by comparing the English and French versions of the same article. Air Transat (=budget canada -> UK airline) has a terrible inflight magazine, it was poorly written and not about anything interesting; same thing flying Northwest (I think?) in the US. I guess the problem is that they only write about places that they fly to, so that can limit what they can talk about.
I've flown a lot of short flights with US Airways and always had a good experience with them, but that's mostly been through smaller airports and with their regional partners. I've had mediocre to crappy experiences with American, though, so I'm not happy about the merger.
"I wouldn't. With his record, you'd probably end up in a fiery crash."
Then a day or two off to chill with @ceres and family, then straight back into a plane (Delta this time) to PAX.
Then spend all of PAX dragging my now limp and lifeless legs behind me.
Glasgow, Philly, Vegas, Seattle.
(GLA, PHL, LAS, SEA if those matter)
Er, maybe. I just checked and it's a 757 and not a larger, dual-aisle plane that would have more space.
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Just wanted to make sure you weren't trying to go through ORD
Also, just because I can't help but think of it everytime I think of LAS airport, if they had just turned slightly left in Con Air they could've landed at the airport instead of the middle of the Strip
They even had a T-Rex skeleton in the United terminal for a while!
If you fly in on a perfectly clear day, you'll be fine.
If someone turns their ceiling fan on too high, or if someone sprays a water bottle in the air, you'll start getting domino delays.
"Sandra has a good solid anti-murderer vibe. My skin felt very secure and sufficiently attached to my body when I met her. Also my organs." HAIL SATAN
For those of you who aren't aware, this is a thing that happened last March.
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