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Orange Anchor said:
I would also like to know if there is a ban on slim people flying. On 3 legs of this recent trip the cabin was replete with lardassians including ones sitting next to me.
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Nah, it must be you and your luck. I flew JFK/SEA last week and knew it was a full flight. I was dreading who'd be in the middle seat next to me. It was the tiniest, most emaciated woman my age. Her fake tan and makeup accounted for half her body weight, I think. :D
My connecting flight from SEA/ANC was CO Business class and I had no one next to me. The return trip is a blur, since I had a 22 hour duty day (my choice). I do remember having the middle seat empty on the red-eye from SEA/JFK, though.

Before you hate on me too much, I'm commercialing LGA/CLT/DFW tomorrow and will probably regret gloating too much. ;)
 
Qgar said:
Nah, it must be you and your luck.
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Some Europeans are noted for their.. well.. lack of awareness of body odor. I am olfactorily challenged (nose broken and operated on twice :D) and this woman was.. shall we say 'odiferous'. After about 4-5 hours my nose just gave up. Thank God.

Last year when I went to the Paris airshow on Air France, I was in Business both ways. Great food, great wines and 3 big beautiful French blondes patrolling the cabin. It was like flying used to be.. comfortable and enjoyable. This trip was close to steerage.
 
kiloalpha said:
I really like Alaska Air or Delta for US airlines. I hear Qantas is pretty good too!
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Funny you mention Alaska Air. I flew them the other day for the first time and I was impressed. :bandit:

I've always been treated well on DL, as well. In fact on the red-eye the other night I was hungry and wanted to order their roast beef sliders (which are yummmmy, BTW). It was after 10pm and they don't serve them. The FA sensed my disappointment and snuck me a first-class meal a little while later. Not sure if my being a fellow FA had anything to do with it, but her kindness was appreciated. :)
(No complaints about USAir as well).
 
Phantom017 said:
WOW I have to dissagree with you there.

Alitalia had the nastiest filthiest aircraft I have ever been on. The boarding procedure was the most unorganized convoluted thing I have ever seen and the seats were so close to each other I had to sit sideways to be even somewhat comfortable. My knees were pressing into the back of the seat in front of me if I would of sat normally. I had an open seat next to me and they put carryon luggage secured by the seatbelt in the seat because they ran out of room in the overhead.

My vote... one of the WORST airlines ever.
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When did you flew with them, long or short haul

I flew on them from Italy to Miami and was impressed how good the flight was (paid 400 euros for a round trip, I was also able to upgrade in buisiness for a small fee), usually I did the same trip on Swiss or LH.

A flew inside europe on the ERJ a ton of times and was always happy
 
WacoFan said:
Whatever airline is taking me away from Kansas City. Preferably to the West Coast or Texas.

I have had delightful flights on Varig, Aerolineas Argentina, Air France, and SWA.
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Varig was awesome!!

Did you know that they use to have Rodizio de Churrasco in Biz class ( http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rodízio ), all the meat would come from the Varig Farms in the Rio Grande do Sul. Depending on the route they would have typical foods of the destination, like sushi on the flights to Japan and Zebra meat on the flights to Africa.

Some of their flights were crazy, they had one fro Rio to Los Angeles and then Tokio. they also

At the time the company was one of the leading arilines of Star Alliance

Right now they only fly passengers to Aruba and Punta Cana and cargo to Frankfurt.
 
Rainman said it's Qantas.
(Which btw, is the only word I know that does not have a u behind the q.)
 
The best one here in the U.S is Continental. There are so many better ones around the world you can't name them all. The worst one though definitely is Lufthansa, and their pilots can't fly properly, if I may says so...........
 
Socal321 said:
The best one here in the U.S is Continental. There are so many better ones around the world you can't name them all. The worst one though definitely is Lufthansa, and their pilots can't fly properly, if I may says so...........
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You can say so but why so?
 
Whichever flight on whichever airline gives me the jumpseat. I hate sitting in the cabin.

"Going home or to work?"

"Is the plane really broken? Its okay, you can tell me.Mmy brothers wifes cousins neighbors gardners girlfriend is a pilot."

"Were you in the military?"...."Oh, then how did you learn to fly?"

...and my personal favorite "When do you get to be the pilot?":banghead:


/rant over (needed to vent a little)
 
Qgar said:
Funny you mention Alaska Air. I flew them the other day for the first time and I was impressed. :bandit:

I've always been treated well on DL, as well. In fact on the red-eye the other night I was hungry and wanted to order their roast beef sliders (which are yummmmy, BTW). It was after 10pm and they don't serve them. The FA sensed my disappointment and snuck me a first-class meal a little while later. Not sure if my being a fellow FA had anything to do with it, but her kindness was appreciated. :)
(No complaints about USAir as well).
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Intrastate on Alaska is the bomb diggety, as are flights from ANC to HNL, however I've been none to impressed with the service outside of the state. Every time I've ridden on the eskimo-jet to get someplace remote, ie Nome, Bethel, or hell, even places that aren't remote like Juneau and Fairbanks, I've always been treated really well, the FAs aren't snarky and rude. Go ANC to SEA and its a mixed bag. I think the intrastate flights are senior or something, I dunno, but the FAs are always super happy.
 
Socal321 said:
The worst one though definitely is Lufthansa, and their pilots can't fly properly, if I may says so...........
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really!!!! probably you don't know that Lufthansa has the best pilot training out there, tons of airlines train their pilots with Lufthansa. They also have the world best MX service...Lufthansa is a founding member of Star Alliance....

Lufthansa pilots have crazy Benefits, when they travel they don't pay anything, they can stay totally for free with their family at Lufthansa hotels (5 STARS), they have free rental cars (like mercedes S class or Porsche cayenne) in all the main European airports...

Lufthansa crago is the best cargo operator out there, they have a 747 just to fly around racing horses...


http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ueJeC2pxxbM
 
Has anyone on here checked out cathaypacific.com and viewed the flight attendant profiles?

I looked through all of the profiles and noticed that quite a few of the FA's at Cathay are former models...lol

Does anyone know if any former models are working for any U.S. based carriers? LOL
 
heeha said:
Has anyone on here checked out cathaypacific.com and viewed the flight attendant profiles?

I looked through all of the profiles and noticed that quite a few of the FA's at Cathay are former models...lol

Does anyone know if any former models are working for any U.S. based carriers? LOL
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Are male pilots included in that question? :confused:
 
I also have to throw in Alaska, along with Horizon. Between these two carriers, I continously get great service.:)
 
swisspilot said:
When did you flew with them, long or short haul

I flew on them from Italy to Miami and was impressed how good the flight was (paid 400 euros for a round trip, I was also able to upgrade in buisiness for a small fee), usually I did the same trip on Swiss or LH.

A flew inside europe on the ERJ a ton of times and was always happy
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I flew SH from Rome to Naples back in Oct '09. REEAALLY unimpressed. Luckily it was a short flight both ways.

The trip to Rome from the US was Delta and that was fine. No probs there.
 
For American carriers, Horizon.

I got so much better service on a quick hop from LAX to STS from Horizon than I've got in the past sitting in steerage on AA from LAX to DFW. They have wonderful snack cracker things! :)
 
International I would say KLM and Luftansa. Though I am about to embark on Quantas so I will know what there are like in a few weeks. The other international carrier's I have been on are not "better" than US carrier's, just the same.
Domestically, Alaska/Horizon are #1 with Delta #2 every one else way behind.
 
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