Best...
1...American...Their little ERJ-145s are so comfy...the 757-200W's and MD-83's ain't to bad either.
2...Northwest...mainly on the flights from DTW-ANC-DTW...food was great and seats were decently comfy. Only downside was the landing at ANC...think they probably had to look over the landing gear after that one...turbulence was pretty bad the whole way down and a down burst caught us right before touchdown...we hit hard enough to open some overhead compartments :shock:
Mixed...
1...Malaysia Airlines...LAX-TPE-LAX...747-400's, AVOD didn't work on the flight to Taiwan but worked on the way back, service wasn't to great on that leg either but decent....From TPE-LAX the service was great, supper and...erm...supper was great (best airline food I've had) They actually had some decent shows and movies...and even a country music station
Neat to land at LAX 3 hours before we even took off
Their downfall...if you have long legs its not a good choice if going Cattle Class. There was no leg room what so ever to begin with, then when the person in front of you reclines you can forget moving your legs at all :cry: Seats were way to firm for my liking, couldn't really get comfy at all...Makes a 14+ hour flight miserable really quick...a good supply of beer got me through the TPE-LAX leg :? Going over was not fun after already spending over 16 hours hopping from FWA-DFW-LAX...a 14.5 hour flight in that seat made it nearly impossible to move after a 30 hour journey. Even though the service was much better and the food was great it wasn't exactly how I wanted to start my 37 hour journey home either.
2...TWA...Was my first flights by myself, was only like 13 years old. Took a little J-31 from FWA-STL and sat over the wing...rivets rattling and duct tape flapping
The DC-9 to RDU wasn't much better, especially when we took off from STL and we just kept circling the Golden Arch at a fairly low level...eventually the pilot came on and said we were returning to STL due to some kind of problem, what ever it was we couldn't climb...maybe the duct tape was causing to much drag...there was more then enough on the wing :shock: Somewhere I have a picture of it
...Hopped on a different DC-9 an hour later and made the flight. Coming home it was another DC-9 to STL...little less tape but more rivets rattling. Then the J-31 flight back to FWA started off with a rejected takeoff right before liftoff. Rough flight with bad weather the whole way.
Overall it wasn't the best I've experienced...but the staff was friendly and having child assistance being so young I got to meet all the pilots
And a few extra snacks
Worst...
Don't really have one. NW, AA, TW, and MH are the only airlines I've flown other then a couple with Continental. Guess they would be the worst if I had to pick...but Continental took me on my first ever flights after NW canceled a bunch and my mom and I got transfered to CO. Thats been quite a few years ago though and I was pretty young. Just remember the food and service truly sucked. Don't know if its changed...but back then the sandwiches we got on the way from CLE-RSW looked and tasted like something they had just pulled from the garbage
Really enjoyed the little B-1900 as my first flight though...I thought that thing was tiny till I flew on TWA's J-31's
