Airlines > Austria Airlines

Advantages: Good quality food and a impressive network in Eastern Europe
Disadvantages: Expensive in business and lack of menu variety

...Tirana on business. I chose Austrian is it was a colleague's preference and best suited the dates we needed to be in Tirana. It also provided me with a chance to travel on the Brussels (where I had to be immediately after my business in Albania), Austrian had an ideal connection (in fact they were offering two flights a day between Vienna and Tirana when I travelled). For convenience the BA flight direct from London to Tirana that commenced in Spring ...
...I was pleased to fly Austrian on this occasion, as I was interested to see how their business product compared with BA's club Europe. In terms of price they were considerably more expensive, but this was in partly due to the fact I needed two single tickets (as explained above). The Airline Austrian is what I would define a middle sized European Airline. As noted, it is part of Star Alliance and it seems to have quite close ties with another Star ... Read review

Advantages: Fly from Heathrow, cheap fares
Disadvantages: no food or drink included

...could. I found flights with Iberia from London Heathrow via Madrid which for 2 adults and 1 child was £350 cheaper than companies such as Thomson and thomascook. Done deal. So what was the experience like? Check-in We were unable to check in online prior to departure. I work in the travel industry and called Iberia to find out what the problem was. I was informed that it might be because we were not flying direct, however he would check and call ...
...My son was given an Iberia plane jelly lolly, some colouring pencils and a colouring competition. This was nice but all in Spanish and noone explained what to do! Iberia are one of the only scheduled airlines that dont include food / drinks on board their flights. A sandwich plus drink was €10. Had I known this in advance I would have taken my own. I did however get some water free! The staff were pleasant. All announcements done in spanish followed ... Read review

Advantages: None for the reasons outlined
Disadvantages: Dangerous attitude to aircraft safety

I flew with TAP airlines yesterday (03/10/08) on Flight TP348 from Madeira to Gatwick. I have two issues really, the first being the most important:- During the course of the flight it became readily apparent that a young portugese male had decided to ignore all flight crew instructions and smoked in one of the onboard toilets. Despite a female member of cabin crew obviously discussing it with him as he returned to his seat, aboslutely NO ACTION ...
...when coming in to land, as I watched a very elderly lady walk to the bathroom despite the seat belt signs being on, and no-one either assisted her or asked her to return to her seat. I do not feel that TAP is a safe airline for these reasons. ... Read review

Advantages: They spoke Mandarin
Disadvantages: Too many to say

I'm surprise that I'm not the only one. In the past, I had relatively high regard for SIA, however that's mainly due to my wife more then personal experience. Personal experience has been that their staff tends to ignore any request that I made, I over looked those on bequest of my wife but this time they've really crossed the line. The problem: we're had our flights cancelled by them three times. Each time they've failed to notify me. Each time, ...
...all they could tell me was "operational reasons". What this translates to is: petrol cost too much, too bad. We just had to cop it. The dumbest thing was that when they rebooked our flight, they've place us on a flight that we could never catch as we'll be on a flight from Tai pei to Singapore. A flight that they've changed earlier, TWCE. Each time I've raised a complaint and each time I get no response. I had to chase them up. Granted the call ... Read review

Advantages: Friendly and efficient staff
Disadvantages: Flights get booked up quickly

...a variety of airlines. Qatar Airways is generally one of the cheapest, but also one of the more decent airlines. The following links take you direct to the Qatar Airways deals pages. www.benbow.org.uk/qatarairwaysuk.htm - For Flight Deals From The UK www.benbow.org.uk/qatarairwaysdubai.htm - For Flight Deals From Dubai I'm not surprised that the flights book up quickly (due to low cost of the flights and the good service), and I would always use ...
...involves a stop at Doha airport. It's a nice airport - some reasonable duty free shops, restaurant, etc. The stopover to Dubai isn't normally more than a couple of hours. The actual flight is good. The economy class seats are just like economy seats on other scehdule airlines. The food and service is good though - I think its much better than Virgin Atlantic anyway! The cabin staff have always been approachable and friendly whenever I have flown. ... Read review