Airlines > Greece Airlines

A classic airline

Advantages: Great seats, friendly, cheerful.
Disadvantages: No major disadvantages

...choice was between Easyjet and Olympic Airlines/Airways (OA). OA won the day. THE COMPANY: OA is Greece's national airline, and was founded in 1957. The company has expanded over the years, amalgamating with other Aviation-related companies. I have found it hard to figure out whether the company is officially Olympic Airlines, or Olympic Airways. In any case, I'm just going to refer to them as OA. Originally based at Athens' old airport, Hellinikon, ...
...time. As Olympic Airways is a full-service airline, you are offered drinks and a full meal onboard. Once we'd taken off, it was a drinks trolley with a small-ish but adeqeute range of juices, soft drinks and alcohol, although they were not accompanied by any nuts or pretzels. The meals on both legs were good; coleslaw and then a main dish of pasta-one way it was spaghetti bolognaise, and on the other it was a pasta bake. They didn't offer you a choice, ...

avacarrdo 03.07.2008 · Read full review
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Review of Olympic Airways - OA

The safest company in Greece and all around.

Advantages: book online,comfortable seats,logical prices
Disadvantages: I didn't face yet

...in Greece.Every time i choose Aegean because i think that has the most logical prices and best services.It is worth saying that Aegean is operating only 6 years and has already won 2 prices.I most travel from Athens to Kavala which is the place that my grandmother lives.I also travelled to Chios and Paris with Aegean.The stuff is very friendly and the pilots are really good.The managers are doing a really good job as every year more and more people ...

Astakos 25.09.2005 · Read full review
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Review of Aegean Airlines

Kenya Airways: Terrible Customer Service

Advantages: OK as long as everything goes according to plan
Disadvantages: Unable to cope when things go wrong

...our holiday in Mombasa with Kenya Airways. Our outward flight was uneventful. Service was OK but not great. The seatback entertainment systems did not work, but this is a minor niggle. Our return from Mombasa was not so simple. We were booked on flight KQ615 on the evening of 22nd December 2009. Checkin and boarding were uneventful and the plane left the departure gate a few minutes late. Just before takeoff the pilot announced that there was a problem ...
...piece of information received from Kenya Airways – what happened after that was totally shambolic! We were returned to the departure lounge, but at no stage was any official announcement made as to what Kenya Airways intended to do. It was left to individuals to approach the manager to try to find out what was happening, and even she eventually ran away! Apart from a single drink, Kenya Airways provided nothing to the delayed passengers. Under European ...

muggles708 29.12.2009 · Read full review
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Review of Kenya Airways

RIP OFF service charges and condescending customer service!!

Advantages: No Other choice
Disadvantages: Complete rip off and condescending

...towards my 'next?' booking with Flybe because I complained that the very rude Flybe ground staff lectured me on how it was 'hard luck' that my printer to print the boarding pass wasn't working (sorry I don't often cary a spare printer when traveling on a day return business trip) and that to get on my flybe flight I would need to pay them £10 to reprint. Her exact words were "well you have to pay as you can't get passed customs or on the flight without ...
...WHAT KIND OF MUG DO FLYBE TAKE THE BRITISH PUBLIC FOR?!! 2) There are no live flight information available if you do not have access to a computer or registered with their "reward4all" frequent flyer program. Too obtain important flight information on their flight, the cost is £1 per minute premium phone line, and let me tell you that it never take 1 minute. Flybe is a classic UK service gone horribly horribly bad and thus letting the nation's reputation ...

joebreezy 29.12.2009 · Read full review
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Our nightmare on Qatar airways. Beware!

Advantages: CHeap price. Usually good food.
Disadvantages: If anything goes wrong with their schedule you're on your own!

...check us on the next Qatar flight at 8:30 pm. When we asked about what to do about our train tickets from Athens to Bulgaria which we would now miss, they said "all will be taken care of in Doha" We arrive in Doha before midnight and now start dealing with managers who could care less about our problems. They insisted that their only obligations were to get us to Athens and we should be happy that they just get us there safe, no matter how late we ...
...case in Athens to the Qatar staff. (they said they would send a report to them about it, but that was never done... Just lying to get rid of us.) The following morning at 7:30 we depart for Athens and arrive in Greece now 20 hours late. On arrival we find we have no baggage. How much worse can it get? When we explained our story to the Qatar staff, there they listened with empathy (for the first time). They tried to phone the train station about ...

planettrotters 28.12.2009 · Read full review
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Review of Qatar Airways - QTR