How to Choose the Best Airline

Chris Pirillo »How to Choose the Best AirlinePosted 27 minutes ago

lol nice

I kind of have a fright of airplanes?

its not scary

I also suggest that people skip the whole “FIRST CLASS” thing. It’s wasted money. All ya do is sit up in the front of the plane and get a few extra peanuts. But it’s not like your up there gettin’ a foot massage and caviar. If you have the cash to blow and would prefer to be up frnt so you can get off and board the plane faster, than do it. But in my opinion, just hang out in coach and save some money.

United is not reliable pilots are not well trained to me and there late for take off

I wanna have *** on a plane

nice rainman plug. Love that movie.

theres a plane in Germany that flies nude…according to sxephil

I do not like orgies dude

i wanna have snakes on a plane

stupid idea for a movie

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what???

Wow im bored.

JAL (Japan Airlines) is the best airline!

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I like having a top 5 accepted by Chris. :P

By the way, as I saw people in the chat room mentioning, 95905 isn’t a zip code. I just put down whatever numbers came to mind.

I use this website to help pick better seats. This site gives you the good and the bad seats. Tells you what ones you want and the seats you REALLY need to stay away from. Also it gives information where there are power ports on the airline.

yeah they are the best airline

I traveled two times on an airplane and after 9/11, I can’t fly anymore…. or at least in a while.

This article is extremely naive, and devoid of any real research. As an airline pilot and frequent flyer, I’d offer the following. Be wary of what appears on Wiki as anyone with an axe to grind can post any info that they wish to. A better source for safety info and warnings, airworthiness directives against particular aircraft types, or the “hit list of chronically late flights” would be through government websites at the DOT and FAA. There is no way for a passenger in the back to judge the level of training of those piloting the aircraft (is this based on your experience with Flight Simulator on your desktop?). Even if seated on the cockpit jumpseat, a Private pilot wouldn’t know enough to judge the competancy of an airline pilot. A better indicator of an unsafe flight discipline culture would be to examine the news for ‘numerous’ incidents of landing on short runways and running off the end for example. The typical pilot up front has to have ten years of flying experience just to be hired while the smaller RJ carriers have less experience because those are lowing paying jobs.

In checking out aircraft types, there is no standard for seating even in the same aircraft. You need to see how many seats are on each type of aircraft at each airline because seat pitch (dist between rows) differs. East Asian carriers typically have many more seats than the same aircraft flown by US carriers because the average size of passengers differ.

In the end, a high number of people make price their only selection criteria. What’s not considered is that a Charter airline won’t take care of you if one of their few planes is broken or delayed whereas scheduled carriers will try to place you on other flights. Also, a discount airline may require you to fly many legs to get to your destination; every intermediate stop is an opportunity for maintainance or weather problems in addition to an already long day. A carrier like JetBlue may generate a lot of buzz, but are the typical two hour delays to taxi out at JFK worth it?

Some airlines have started blogs for customers to comment as a way to get feedback on improving operations. Check them out!

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Further to P. La Presto’s comments, in 1993 my husband and I flew to the U.S. from Australia. I had not flown for perhaps twenty years but remembered curling up in the seat to sleep on flights years before. My weight gain in the interim made curling up impossible, but I wondered if I had gained enough to account for the difference in comfort. (This was a major airline, not one of today’s budget carriers.)

On the drive from our hotel to the Los Angeles airport for our return trip, I started chatting about seat size and space with another passenger — a woman who had worked in the offices of an airline company for years. She told me I was not imagining the difference. She had seen plans over the years as newer aircraft were designed. They were larger and seated more passengers, yes; but part of the method of having more seats was to shave a bit off the previous seat sizes.

Our next trip was a domestic one in Australia in 1994. Since then, starting in March 1998 we have had one or two trips almost every year — domestic and/or overseas in our part of the world (Malaysia, Singapore, Hong Kong, mainland China, New Zealand). We have flown with major and budget carriers and on the whole have been happy with all of them.

Of the ones we have used, there is only one with whom I would probably not fly again. When we returned from a flight to Hong Kong (1998 or 1999), I went to our travel agent and said, “Look at me.” (At this point I held my arms out and made a complete circle.) “I won’t tell you my weight; but If anyone comes in here who looks like me and wants to fly economy class with XXXXX, DON’T LET THEM DO IT.”

The seats were made for Asian builds, not for mine. I have intentionally not named the XXXXX airline because for smaller people there would be no problem and the seat size and configuration on that airline might not be the same today. That’s why I said I would “probably” not fly with them again.

We have been very impressed with all of the Asian airlines with whom we have flown.

Merna

spirit airline is the cheapest and the WORST

contenetal has bad seats(UNCOFRETABLE)