Air Transat > Reviews

Advantages: Very cheap - Half price of British Airways
Disadvantages: Smaller seats; No fancy extras like with BA

Normally, my parents book flights well in advance, and up until now we have always flown British Airways. This Summer, however, we left it much later before booking a holiday, partly because many people say it is cheaper to book late, and partly because we had already booked a flight to Rome in October, making the Summer holiday slightly less important (normally we stay at home during October and have our main holiday in Summer). However it soon became ... Read review

Advantages: cheap, fast,direct, and (sometimes) comfertable flights
Disadvantages: (ussually) uncomfortable. BAD services. POOr seats.

...sure; i saw that much. Air Transat is overall a preety good airline. Hope You enjoy Air Transat! ... Read review

Advantages: cheap
Disadvantages: everything else

I survived AirTransat--but barely. In order to get a cheap flight between London and Toronto, I bought a ticket that was part of a charter flight block. Most of the passengers were on a package holiday. Check-in was chaos in Toronto. One passenger almost got in a fight with an AirTransat employee when he found out about the excess baggage charge and the extra line he had to stand in. I had to do this too (the charge and the line, not the fight). A ... Read review

Advantages: Got me to my Destination on Time
Disadvantages: Slow Check In, Miserable Cabin Crew, Rubbish Food

For the first time, I was travelling to Vancouver Canada on my own to visit Family, so obviously I was looking forward to it. I was travelling on flight TS503 from London Gatwick (LGW) to Vancouver (YVR). The flight was scheduled to depart at 16:05 GMT and arrive at 17:55 PT. Arriving at Gatwick always puts me in a Holiday mood, so I made sure to be there at 13:00, the time suggested by the airline. Unfortunately, the check in queue was so ... Read review

Advantages: Cheap
Disadvantages: Rude Staff. Low Baggage Allowance. Third World Service.

Most people are attracted to Air Transat based on price. Fair enough, their flights are always much cheaper than the scheduled airlines, and slightly cheaper than Canada 3000 (but not much). But for the money saved, there is a big compromise. Check-in has usually been painless for me, so long as you keep the luggage under the sacred 20kg limit, or else expect to either cry or pay (or both). I usually keep an extra carry-on bag hidden from them on ... Read review

Advantages: I got There. Some New Aircraft
Disadvantages: Some Very old aircraft. Staff who can't talk to each other.

...Canada last year and flew Air Transat there and back. The flights gave me two very different experiences of the company. From what I can gather Air Transat is a charter airline based in Canada that also do some scheduled flights. I flew out in a chartered Airbus. It was brand new and the staff were obviously very excited to be on it. The airhostesses could only speak pigeon English- odd for a Canadian airline flying to and from the UK. They ... Read review

Advantages: Value for money, customer service, fast flights
Disadvantages: online booking

...visit my American girlfriend via Air Transat, a French Canadian airline flying various routes from Europe to Canada. My first option would have been to go to Seattle, as it is closer to my girlfriends city. The prices in the high season are really expensive. I got this flight for 381GBP including taxes. The customer service was excellent. The plane was well staffed and the attentiveness high. The duty free was very cheap as well. I was so pleased ... Read review

Advantages: cheap, films reasonably up to date, staff friendly
Disadvantages: no leg room, meals pretty poor

We fly with Air Transat to Calgary last month on a flight that goes from Gatwick - Calgary-Vancouver. We left very promptly from Gatwick and paid extra to choose our seats. We choose row 11 which I might warn you only has 1 window sort of behind you and otherwise a blank wall - so not the best for views but it is one row back from the exit which they use to get on and off the plane so great for getting off quickly and easily. The leg room is possibly ... Read review

Advantages: Cheap
Disadvantages: Service, baggage allowance, comfort

...was a frequent flyer with air transat) the person next to me asked 'are you vegetarian?' 'yes' I replied 'thats not vegetarian, you need a pink plate not red' so I ended up without a meal but I always carry food with me because this always happens. Being a small plane they had to stop at Halifax eastern canada to re-fuel and clean up which took and extra 2 hours keeping us in the plane! The prices can start as low as £189 to £300, but I ... Read review

Advantages: Cheap Travel
Disadvantages: What you exspect? its cheap

...during the summer and used air transat for my flight between London Gatwick and Toronto Perason airports. I did not know what to exspect as this was my first aeroplane flight, but my views on the differences between cheap and exspencive airliners came clear to me as i flew on to Winnipeg on an Air Canada service. The overall travel is per usal on a transatlantic flight is long with 2 films, these films were not main stream and seemed dull to my ... Read review

Advantages: great legroom
Disadvantages: none

I flew Air- Transat between Glasgow and Toronto and had one of the best flights of my life.The comfort and leg room was fantastic which is very unusual for economy trans atlantic travel.My only niggle was that every single thing that was said was first in french then english but as it is a Canadian airline they obviously cater for their french canadian passengers. It was an L1011 plane and I would recommend this airline for comfort and helpfulness ... Read review

Advantages: Very cheap
Disadvantages: You get what you pay for (delays, ancient aircraft, poor customer service)

The advantage of flying Airtransat is that it's cheap. This used to mean they had a captive market in transatlantic flights to major Canadian cities. Today this isn't the case. Zoom and others have entered the market so there's competition. Trust me, you want to check out the competition. The most positive experience I've ever had flying Airtransat was in a hotel. Yes, the delays were so bad because one of their aircraft wasn't flightworthy I got ... Read review