Worst (non-low-cost) airline you ever flew with?

[dave_c]

Mine has to be Kuwait Airways, their Planes were in horrid, their in-flight in-flight entertainment wasn't working half the time, the cabin crew's lazy and incompetent as well as the staff in their hub (Kuwait City) who were rude and unhelpful and the flying, my nan could probably pilot the plane more smoothly. If I wanted a thrill-ride I would have bought a ticket to Alton Towers. The results, you feeling in a bad messed up state upon arriving at your destination, as well as the return. I learned my lesson, never again, so avoid Kuwait Airways like the plague.

So, what the worst (non-low-cost) airline you ever flew with? What experiences would you like to share? I omitted the likes of Easy Jet and Ryan Air for obvious reasons they are generally expected to be a pile of horse manure.

[jno]

I once flew London-Kuwait-Bangkok with them. They had only one inflight film, a documentary on Bulgarian folk dancing; I saw it five times.

[NoMercy]

TAP Air Portugal. Really worn, shabby, grey leather seats. No inflight entertainment. Food plate consisted of stale bread roll, a slice of processed meat and a few really bitter olives.

[jno]

... but having said that, you could fly to New York with them for �219 this week, which is very cheap and maybe worth bad service.

[NoMercy]

I have to say the two BEST airlines I ever flew with were British Airways and Canada Airways. I agree with you about Ryanair, and I have vowed never again. But I flew with Easyjet last thursday, and it was perfectly organised and the staff were very attentive.

[filthiestfis]

Easyjet is a pretty good low cost airline but there are better such as Air Berlin.
As for Kuwait Airlines...if you read www.airlinequality.com you will be able to see that it is a bad airline.

I cant say I have had a REALLY bad experience with airlines yet and I fly a few times a year.

[Twinkle17]

RYANAIR!!!!

Terrible!!!

We flew to Krakow with them and on the way back the cabin crew proceeded to tell jokes and make rude inuendos to eachother over the speaker. One even asked where the other one had spent the previous night and in who's room whilst giggling uncontrollably and mentioned something about her knickers....!!! We all just sat there is complete shock. They were a complete bunch of tramps!!

[sn�gs]

I've also done the 'London-Kuwait-Bangkok' flight with Kuwait Airways. I was pleasantly surprised as I'd heard bad things, but they were cheap and that was my priority at the time

The food, entertainment and service were fine imo.

[Twinkle17]

Oops sorry, just noticed the non-low-cost bit

x

[marval]

Went with Freddie Laker's airline, they tried to throw me off the plane. They had double booked, it happened twice. Don't miss them. Another bad one was East African Airways, never again.

[sn�gs]

Indonesia's Garuda Airway's is always 'interesting'...

[khoey]

alitalia never again even the priest next to was blessing himself and back in the day you could smoke on flights he burnt me, he was so nervous,

[campbellking]

Have had fun with South African airlines. Got delayed by late arriving Air Botswana plane (which decided to make an additional non-scheduled stop en-route), therefore missed connection. Had to wait by check-in desk until plane was boarding to get on next one (this at about 11p.m.) Had then got to sprint across Joberg airport to get on plane. Collapsed in heap on plane, had good sleep, was woken by steward crashing my tray up and down to tell me 'breakfast was served'.
Next time flying back from Botswana, plane from Joberg was delayed by nearly 2 hours as no food had been put on plane. Arrived at Heathrow to find luggage left in Joberg, which then took another 3 days to arrive.
Am flying with them again in September...

[jamesnan]

Quite a few years ago we flew Air China, to Beijing and vowed never to use them again. The whole plane was filled with smokers, even in the non smoking section, most of them chain smoking and that was horrible to a non smoker. The food was not good, and the air crew sat and shared out a large box of Toblerone between themselves instead of giving them to the passengers, and the crew didn't even strap themselves in when requested, just flipped the strap over their shoulders and got up and wandered around before the plane had even stopped. The in-flight entertainment was a propaganda film of Chairman Mao which lasted about 2 hours!

[dave_c]

filthiestfis, thank's for that link, I'll refer to that site next time i fly, and I'll also vent my frustration there too!