I Will NEVER Fly that Airline AGAIN!!

[Lachesis00]

I'd say Alaska Airlines because of the price. They are THE only airlines going into and out of Southeast Alaska and the prices they charge are amazingly high.

 

[MOMTOCUTESTDOGEVER]

United is terrible and we won't fly them again. If they were my only option, I'd rather stay home and pout.

 

[JKanownik]

The airline I currently use is Continental. They have great customer service and low fares. I like that they serve meals and have movies. Best of all, they have assigned seats. I have used them 9 times since June of 2006 and have not had 1 issue with the service or travel.

I will never fly Southwest. In my opinion, they have the worst service of any airline I have experienced. I understand that an airline can't be perfect everytime, but they have screwed up too many times in my book.

 

[Lanshark]

We live in Atlanta so we always fly Delta. Dh has almost 1,000,000 miles and hasn't experienced too many problems with them.

The last bad flight I had was Eastern

 

[Toby'sFriend]

We live in Atlanta so we always fly Delta.

my vision of a Delta flight for you:

in order to conform to their "every flight MUST connect through Atlanta" rule

take off
circle the airport 2 times
land
make you run for another plane a minimum of 12 gates away that is scheduled to take off in 4 minutes that is being held JUST FOR YOU OUT OF THE KINDNESS OF THEIR HEARTS!!!

and then after a 4 hour maintenance issue --- finally get you going.

 

[KariC]

Cincinnati is a nice airport, and trust me you are paying for it! Most of us in the area look at ALL of the other airports before we fly out of CVG (the code for the airport....it's actually in Covington, Kentucky). For instance, on our recent trip (returned in the ice storm last Tuesday night), our round trip flight, with no layovers from Dayton, OH, to Orlando was about $125 per person. We had good departure/arrival times on both ends. The equivalent out of CVG would have cost us over $400 per person, without optimum departure/arrival times! And, they closed the airport in the ice storm, and we were still able to fly into Dayton (however, don't know if that was actually a GOOD thing, or not....). And, if you're not flying Delta or one of their partners, you will not necessarily be in a "good" part of the airport. (The terminal for non-Delta shuts down in the evening, and there is not a lot of food options-if any!)

 

[Bichon Barb]

Anyone remember ValueJet?

I was told off by a male flight attendant on a flight home from Florida once.

I got on the flight with my one year old at the time, and lo and behold, weren't we seated next to the same sweet lady that we sat with on the way down?! Anyway, we started chatting (excitedly) about our trips and what we did for the week, and we didn't even notice that they had begun the safety schpiel. When the attendant was done, he came up to me, tapped me on the shoulder and and asked with a snotty tone "How many exits are on this plane?" I said "I don't know...4?" He answered "NO! 6! And if you were paying attention instead of talking you would have known that!"



We were sure he was going to make us stay after school.

 

[DawnCt1]

We live in Atlanta so we always fly Delta. Dh has almost 1,000,000 miles and hasn't experienced too many problems with them.

The last bad flight I had was Eastern

I like Delta because it is so easy to acrue miles with them, through the Delta Amex card, double miles, triple miles offers, etc. I thought that it was difficult to use those miles until I saw the problems that others have using their ff miles with the other majors. I can't complain. Our family of six have been to Hawaii 4 times, two of those times DH and I flew first class. My last flight on Eastern we were bumped up to first class because the gate agents name was Dawn too! I liked Eastern. I don't recall getting an upgrade like that since. I like USAIR because they tend to overbook and offer good incentives to get off the plane and fly later. I can usually negotiate a first class flight when available and of course those vouchers for anywhere USAir flies. I don't like AA. The vouchers they offer to be inconvenienced are meager to say the least.

 

[nealymouse]

This just happend in Portland Maine with Jet Blue.


JetBlue Airways Corp. called off all of its flights to and from Portland today, the third day of blanket cancellations triggered by last week's snowstorm.
The eight dropped flights at Portland International Jetport are among more than 135 nationwide and abroad meant to reset the airline's schedule after five days of delays and cancellations that angered passengers.
In all, the airline called off almost a quarter of its 600 flights scheduled for today.
The storm and its aftermath wreaked havoc at the jetport, because problems with JetBlue began just as many Maine families planned to head out of state during the annual winter vacation at public schools.
The airline normally serves about one-fifth of the airport's outbound passengers.
"It's affecting a lot of people. Every other airline is full, so it's not like they can jump over," jetport manager Jeff Schultes said.
One family that spent much of Saturday scrambling around the jetport looking for alternate flights considered booking a charter plane to New Orleans, where they were to leave for a $20,000 international cruise.
"I am bummed," Sean Smith of Lewiston, who got a passport just for the trip, said late Saturday afternoon.
The airline's troubles began Wednesday when a storm hit its East Coast hub, John F. Kennedy International Airport in New York.
JetBlue had relied on a storm forecast that did not pan out Wednesday, company spokeswoman Alison Eshelman said. Airline officials believed breaks in the nasty weather would provide a few "windows of opportunity" for flights, and loaded passengers on planes.
"The windows never came, and by the time we realized those flights weren't going to be able to depart, we were faced with gridlock at JFK," Eshelman said.
The weather stranded some passengers on the tarmac at JFK for hours. JetBlue tried to maintain most of its service Thursday and Friday in an attempt to get back on track, but JFK closed three of its four runways and caused further delays.
"That just created a snowball effect," Eshelman said.
Today's cancellations will get crews in the proper places so the company can reset its flight schedule and get back on track Tuesday, she said.
The airline offered stranded passengers a full refund, or credit for another flight, in the wake of the widespread cancellations and delays over the weekend.
"We should've canceled sooner. We've created unacceptable delays," Eshelman said.
Schultes, the Portland jetport's manager, advised JetBlue passengers to check with the airline about refunds and credits before visiting the airport.
Customers may call (800) 538-2583 or consult www.jetblue.com to rebook their travel through May 22 or request a refund.
JetBlue also canceled today's flights in and out of Bermuda; Houston; Pittsburgh; Raleigh, N.C.; Austin, Texas; Charlotte, N.C.; Columbus, Ohio; Jacksonville, Fla.; Nashville, Tenn.; and Richmond, Va.
The Associated Press contributed to this report.

 

[vital]

I'd rather walk/swim than fly southwest. Terrible. I try to use Delta only. It's funny seeing all of the opinions and the different experiences everyone has.

I think I'm the only freak that LOVES going through Atlanta. You can people watch for days there! Never a dull moment.

 

[MyGoofy26]

Alitalia was the WORST. We had a high school group on our flight and once we were over water, the flight attendants started serving them alcohol (I have no idea what the chaperones were doing) Less than 1/4th of the TV screens in the headrests worked and they wouldn't allow you to use your own electronic devices. After a few hours all of the flight attendents went missing. We could smell smoke - they were all in their little "break room" or whatever down below smoking. We didn't see them again until about an hour and a half before we landed. No joke, I had my call button on for almost 4 hours. All night long people were just invading the drink carts because they were so thirsty and couldn't get a flight attendant.

So an 8 hour flight with no "entertainment" to distract you, drinks in only the very first and last part of the flight (and that air is so dry in those planes!) and the noxious fumes of cigarette smoke all night long.

 

[MUFFYCAT]

U S Airways. We used mileage and it still wasn't worth it.
I forfeited the remaining miles.

 

[dreamcometrue]

I have never said "I will never fly this airline again". I am hesitant booking Delta because of their bankrupcy issues, I am worried that they will totally tank and I will be out my $$. Besides, it seems like they change flight times way too often. I like United and try to book through them as long as they aren't too expensive!

 

[DawnCt1]

I have never said "I will never fly this airline again". I am hesitant booking Delta because of their bankrupcy issues, I am worried that they will totally tank and I will be out my $$. Besides, it seems like they change flight times way too often. I like United and try to book through them as long as they aren't too expensive!

Isn't UAL still in bankruptcy?

 

[honeymom]

Alitalia was the WORST. We had a high school group on our flight and once we were over water, the flight attendants started serving them alcohol (I have no idea what the chaperones were doing) Less than 1/4th of the TV screens in the headrests worked and they wouldn't allow you to use your own electronic devices. After a few hours all of the flight attendents went missing. We could smell smoke - they were all in their little "break room" or whatever down below smoking. We didn't see them again until about an hour and a half before we landed. No joke, I had my call button on for almost 4 hours. All night long people were just invading the drink carts because they were so thirsty and couldn't get a flight attendant.

So an 8 hour flight with no "entertainment" to distract you, drinks in only the very first and last part of the flight (and that air is so dry in those planes!) and the noxious fumes of cigarette smoke all night long.

My parents once flew Alitalia from JFK to Rome. Once over the ocean, there was a bang and one of the engines was on fire. A few bangs later, the engine wasn't on fire anymore and they headed back to JFK. They made an emergency landing and when the plane landed, it landed so hard that the oxygen masks opened up. Then they made them sit on the tarmac while the plane was checked out. I really wonder about their maintenance.

 

[bavaria]

Isn't UAL still in bankruptcy?

No, United successfully emerged from bankruptcy protection last year, in large part by focussing on business travellers. This may skew opinions from the once a year leisure flyers, who probably have a far different experience from the weekly United flyer like me.

 

[profdsny]

Would not fly ATA again if I had a choice. We missed our Disney Cruise during New Years a few years back, even though we were scheduled to leave 3 days before the cruise left. They screwed up our reservations every which way from Sunday. However, we do like Southwest, and are so far very happy with it.

 

[DawnCt1]

No, United successfully emerged from bankruptcy protection last year, in large part by focussing on business travellers. This may skew opinions from the once a year leisure flyers, who probably have a far different experience from the weekly United flyer like me.

I was always happy with UAL but they seemed to have a diminished presence in Ct with Delta, SWA and USair emerging as the more dominant carriers. I have used my United miles to fly Aloha. It was the best buy for interisland flights.

 

[caitycaity]

i personally won't fly continental b/c i flew them 3 times and each time i had a disasterous experience. i'm not talking about weather related bagge losses or cancellations, i am talking about three seperate completely ridiculous situations. more importantly, a large part of what made these situations ridiculous was the way the continental people dealt with the issues.

for a few years now i have been a dedicated united flyer. even when i have had problems, they have made them right to my satisfaction. they really reward their frequent flyers and i have gotten out of some sticky situations thanks to having a high number of lifetime miles on united.

 

[goofinoff]

I would have to say Southwest. Too crammed. We flew from Manchester, NH to Vegas. Service wasn't that great. The planes we were on were old and not very clean. I prefer JetBlue...dispite what went on this weekend! Of course if I flew JetBlue this weekend I may feel diffently!!