What Makes A Great Airline?

blue25 · **on:** January 04, 2008, 01:40:28 am

Tell me, what makes an airline so great?

Vamerica · **Reply #1 on:** January 04, 2008, 01:41:12 am

In AM or in real life?

blue25 · **Reply #2 on:** January 04, 2008, 01:42:25 am

Whatever is fine :wink:

Pacific · **Reply #3 on:** January 04, 2008, 01:45:16 am

Price and service

The end.

Vamerica · **Reply #4 on:** January 04, 2008, 01:52:13 am

and nice crew

CornField · **Reply #5 on:** January 04, 2008, 02:03:18 am

Aircraft that get the passengers where they need to go without falling out of the air.

Vamerica · **Reply #6 on:** January 04, 2008, 02:03:55 am

Quote from: "CornField"

Aircraft that get the passengers where they need to go without falling out of the air.

That could be a part

blue25 · **Reply #7 on:** January 04, 2008, 02:33:43 am

Any airlines that you would consider to be like this?

StephenM · **Reply #8 on:** January 04, 2008, 08:49:13 am

Customer Service without a doubt. The likes of Aer Arann in Ireland are fantastic, the entire staff are more than friendly to you. While Aer Lingus's long haul arm is something left to be desired...

gizgiz · **Reply #9 on:** January 04, 2008, 09:16:33 am

Customer service and NO TECHNICAL STOPS IN THE US (if you're flying internationally). Transit is fine, at least you get to get off the plane...

CX is good, except their YYZ-HKG flight, depending on the season & equipment might make a stop in AND...fortunately they are replacing their 343 fleet with 773's and will do the polar route starting this year

EXTspotter · **Reply #10 on:** January 04, 2008, 09:52:03 am

To differentiate your airline from all the other airlines operating in the same area, improve onboard services, improve the levels of customer service, increase the levels of crewing on flights, upgrade the IFE to include AVOD on PTVs and offer it all for the same price as everyone else. When going on Longhaul Package Holidays (Charter) Thats why I choose First Choice. First Choice is lightyears ahead of the other airlines operating in the longhaul charter area. The seating for one, on ThomsonFly's 767s, it is 2-4-2 in Economy, On First Choice it is 2-3-2, the FCA IFE system was rolled out on the 767s 4 or 5 years ago, only one of the other longhaul airlines has even tried to beat it, Thomsonfly again, with a similar system along with increasing seat pitch to match FCA, but without other upgrades like the 777 signature interior and new seats.

blumage · **Reply #11 on:** January 04, 2008, 10:21:01 am

Well I will say Customer Service , and IFE. AVOD is not necessary but will be a plus.
The name CX,SQ,MH tell's u everything. Why not take example from these airlines?

Blue Sky Mine · **Reply #12 on:** January 04, 2008, 11:37:01 am

Hm...
Reliability:
Does the airline crash a lot? How often is it late? How's the ground service? Do they loose many bags?How is the realtionship between the workers and the company (strikes coming to my mind)?

Onboard: How is the service? Is the crew friendly? Do they treat you like crap when you fly cattle class? Do they have free meals/free drinks/free booze? What's their baggage allowance? How are the seats? Do they have AVOD? How often do people strand because the flights are overbooked?

gizgiz · **Reply #13 on:** January 04, 2008, 12:11:13 pm

China Airlines:

Does the airline crash a lot? Yes
How often is it late? at least 75%
How's the ground service? poor
Do they loose many bags? can't count, even electronically
How is the realtionship between the workers and the company (strikes coming to my mind)? not that bad actually...

Onboard: How is the service? non-existent
Is the crew friendly? what crew?
Do they treat you like crap when you fly cattle class? more like bull crap
Do they have free meals/free drinks/free booze? unfortunately yes. that unfortunately there because the free meals were free for them too

What's their baggage allowance? normal
How are the seats? what seats?
Do they have AVOD? hah! in your dreams!
How often do people strand because the flights are overbooked? many people are stranded, but not because the flight is overbooked, more like EQUIPMENT LOSS.

That's Asia's Worst Airline in a nutshell XD

blumage · **Reply #14 on:** January 04, 2008, 12:15:38 pm

Quote from: "gizgiz"

China Airlines:

Does the airline crash a lot? Yes
How often is it late? at least 75%
How's the ground service? poor
Do they loose many bags? can't count, even electronically
How is the realtionship between the workers and the company (strikes coming to my mind)? not that bad actually...

Onboard: How is the service? non-existent
Is the crew friendly? what crew?
Do they treat you like crap when you fly cattle class? more like bull crap
Do they have free meals/free drinks/free booze? unfortunately yes. that unfortunately there because the free meals were free for them too
What's their baggage allowance? normal
How are the seats? what seats?
Do they have AVOD? hah! in your dreams!
How often do people strand because the flights are overbooked? many people are stranded, but not because the flight is overbooked, more like EQUIPMENT LOSS.

That's Asia's Worst Airline in a nutshell XD

Why do i always hear bad comments about this airline?
Guess it's really a piece of *vegetable*.