favorite airlines

[Gabriel]

Based on overall service, pre-flight and in-flight skills, equipment, fleet, meals, brand culture…

1. Cathay Pacific.

2. Swiss.

All the others I've tried weren't worthy of the list, but people seem to love Lufthansa and JAL.

Worst airlines in my experience would be:

Garuda

Qantas

British Airways

[Kasper]

favorites

JAL

Singapore

ANA

Cathay

Emirates

Worst

All NA airline companies, but Air Canada and Northwest kind of lead the pack of suckers (i've had good experiences with AA though, maybe the gem out of all those carbage companies)

[down4nyhc]

www.airlinequality.com is always good for opinions.

i thought austrian airlines were great at one point till they fucked me over.

Lufthansa fell off so bad.

[Larry Bird]

greyhound express from philly to port authority

continental

[corporategrunt]

ANA (prb the best carrier for US-Jpn flights these days)

JAL (until all the problems of '05~'06, I am sure it will get addressed in '07)

Royal Jordanian Air

Airline/Travel experience also has to include airport experiences - recently learned that travelling through Heathrow to another destination is a pretty dumb thing to do - the hard way.

[evisu 2000]

whatever is the cheapest.

westjet fucking sucks though.

[rayjr]

singapore airlines

lufthansa

[insidertrading]

- Cathay

- British Airways.

- Singapore Airlines (best first class cabins/service out there period)

[Ryan]

-Singapore Airlines

-Cathay

-Continental... =\ only because thats where all my frequent flyer miles go towards

[Kane]

This site kept me occupied for an hour or two: http://www.airlinemeals.net

'kay. Maybe three.

[xcoldricex]

JAL, Thai Airways

[Tiranis]

Lufthansa if you've been flying with them for a while. Plus they have superb service in every country I've been to...

British Airways is also good.

Air Canada is absolutely the worst, or at least the worst I've ever flown and I fly a lot.

[Selegna]

Jetblue - i love the unlimited terra blue potato chips and chocolate chip cookies.

[Gabriel]

- Cathay

- British Airways.

- Singapore Airlines (best first class cabins/service out there period)

I can't believe you said Cathay and British in the same sentence.

Oh you're talking 1st are you? I've only been in economy...

[sybaritical]

Emirates are pretty good. I dig the vertical cam shots how ever many thousand feet straight down.

Never fly on Laos air though. I spent the whole flight staring out the window at the prop, frozen rigid with fear that something important was going to fall off it.

[Analyst]

JAL, Thai Airways

I'm in agreement. JAP and Thai Airways, for international travel. I'm anxious to try the business class direct route from BKK to NYC on Thai Airways. Love those long flights

In terms of the worse, I've heard really bad things about Aeroflot. Another shitty budget carrier around here is Air Asia, which is always delayed for their Bangkok to Chiang Mai routes.

[Pogi]

Singapore Airlines - First class/Silverkris, even their economy isn't too bad for travel.

Worst: United Airlines, Qantas, Virgin.

[Tisswat]

Malaysia Airlines

Singapore Airlines

Air Asia

Although I can't even sit straight because of their 'no leg room' policy (I'm 6'2), I love flying Air Asia. Especially if the crew starts playing bingo during flight. Half of their flights are over loaded and safety regulations are ignored every so often. I recently met a Cathay Pacific pilot who refuses to fly with Air Asia because of it. Welcome to southeast Asia.

SEAIR

Just because of the flight attendants..

[lestat]

not enough leg room on JAL international flights...

United Economy Plus is pretty roomy... but the flight attendants are old and wrinkly and the Food is Horrible...

Asiana... I had Hot Attendants!! the food was actually kinda edible... BiBimBap wasnt too bad... 1 Hr Stop @ Anchorage, and 1.5 hr layover @ Incheon/Seoul... that = Cigarette Time!!!!!! I love stops.... i get my nicotine fix =) i cant deal with nonstop flights...

[superdupersang]

i love the drama involved in taking a long haul flight, from entering into a busy international airport, boarding the plane, flirting with the air hostesses, and knowing you wont be disturded till landing (except crying babies or terrorrists)

fav airlines: Asiana, coz if the massive free blanket.

they expevt you to take it and the cost is included in the flight tickets.

i remember back in the early 90s using real metal cutlery.

my mate from ghana took he gyptian flag carrier and said that was pretty bad, and then he took a connecting flight on a charter to ghana, sharing with animals.

he said it was the worse experience of his life bar none

prayed all the way from runway to runway

[superdupersang]

also from back in the day, i got to see the cockpit and have a chat with the pilots.

those times are gone now i suppose

[aaronS]

I flew us airways last week and it was the worst flying experience of my life. they were redoing they're reservation system and lost all reservations and seat assignments everyone was issued hand written tickets and it was pretty much whatever seat you sit in you get. i've never seen so many people miss their flights

[B-15C]

It reminds me of the AA cattle-call where you line up by graded category and board to random seats. So even at their worst, US sounds like AA. Continental keeps me comfortable on bicoastal flights, but I always imagine they're continuing service to Japan when I get off the plane.

[janneh]

Best:

Emirates - Good service, comfortable, good choice of entertainment, food and drink was not bad

Qatar - Was a bit hit and miss but overall was pretty good

Worst

Air cubana - no air being circulated, no food or drinks for hours

[PT]

Singapore Airlines--no doubt.

Worst - Delta, AA. Bah!

[todesengel]

Singapore air for sure. BA is also good. United and Northwest are great for US->Asia.

EDIT: I forgot, KLM is great.

Worst:

Any domestic American flight by American, Delta, United, etc. I had better domestic flight experiences in China... let's leave it at that.

Also, international flights with US Airways suck.

[Guest doubletap]

i only fly KLM now, but swiss is good too.

Worst: United Airlines, Qantas, Virgin.

quantas never had a crash... dont know if those odds are good or bad.

[RobbertJan]

KLM business class, and their business class lounge is great to, food, movies, magazines, great sofa's, perfect for the long wait till boarding time!

[Tiranis]

I've flown with United recently and it wasn't that bad... AA, Delta, Air Canada, etc. are all way worse.

[RobbertJan]

also from back in the day, i got to see the cockpit and have a chat with the pilots.

those times are gone now i suppose

i did that when i was little a couple of times, great days, always amazed(H)