Best and worst airlines

[porndog]

Has anyone flown from Amsterdam, Paris,or Brussels to Bangkok and if they have do they recommend an airline, i will be traveling economy and i,m looking for good in flight entertament and friendly trolly dollys, my last flight from LHR was with Thai airways and plane was a rust bucket with mardy, lazy crew ,,any info will be much welcome,,,thanks Porn dog

[Cryfreman]

Not experianced with flying from them area's but found ETIHAD to be fantastic from the UK. Clean toilets and plane and the films on offer kept me entertained the hole flight

[firstholliday]

From A,dam.. use EVA NOT KLM.

[Charly2007]

Forget KLM, take any other one....

[thaibutch]

From personal experience I'd fly with Qatar, Etihad, Eva and Thai. Deffo miss Royal Jordanian and BA/Qantas. Hope this helps.

[rodxxx]

From amsterdam i have flown on china air a few times, thats a good airline

[Mavrick]

If you want to fly direct from Heathrow EVA Air cannot be beaten for good quality service and non direct from Heathrow Etihad wins hands down again good quality service.

[porndog]

Thanks for the info guys, i think i,m gonna opt for China air or Eva air.

[tommyg]

anyone flew with air france,we fly newcastle to paris then bkk.good price from newcastle £430 for whit week 23rd may.

[landslide]

Thanks for the info guys, i think i,m gonna opt for China air or Eva air.

IMHO, I'd steer clear of China Airlines. They have one of the highest plane crash frequencies of any major airline. They do have good airfares, but their planes tend to fall out of the sky a little too often. Check out the site www.planecrashinfo.com for some interesting statistics.

[Tico]

IMHO, I'd steer clear of China Airlines. They have one of the highest plane crash frequencies of any major airline. They do have good airfares, but their planes tend to fall out of the sky a little too often. Check out the site www.planecrashinfo.com for some interesting statistics.

 

Wow, that's insane. According to their page, China Airlines is in dead last for accident rate out of 88 airlines in the sky. It's the worst airline to take in terms of accidents. I hope I don't die on my flight this Tuesday.

[missinginaction]

anyone flew with air france,we fly newcastle to paris then bkk.good price from newcastle £430 for whit week 23rd may.

 

I hate to be the barer of bad news, but I flew man-cdg-bkk with air france this time last year and it was the worst flights i've had in my life to anywhere.

 

We didnt get the seats we booked. The plane was a jumbo and must have been 30 years old. They say free booze. You'd be lucky to get one drink from the unhelpful stewardesses. I am only 5 foot 6 and I didnt have any legroom (a problem i've never had before or since). The food was crap & the entertainment showed about 3 films that were all about 5 years old. never again for me. I always fly etihad now. Far superior.

[tommyg]

thanks for your reply,they say they are switching to a340 for this route,i finish night shift morning of flight so i will try to get my head down on plane if they are that bad.

[missinginaction]

thanks for your reply,they say they are switching to a340 for this route,i finish night shift morning of flight so i will try to get my head down on plane if they are that bad.

 

Hopefully they will have the new planes in service before you fly. Sleeping aint easy on those planes. I took two xanax and still only managed a couple of hours kip. Normally one of those bad boys will knock me out for 5 hours +

Edited March 29, 2009 by yorkshirefarang

[barney]

anyone flew with air france,we fly newcastle to paris then bkk.good price from newcastle £430 for whit week 23rd may.

 

I'm going same week from brum £399 wirh emirates, bargain, and great airline.

[tommyg]

yes emerites are good we did them last year from newcastle,bad price this year.

[daf]

just returned from bangkok with Jet Airways, brilliant, new planes with 10x8 screens showing the latest movies, great food too.

[blue1878]

The best airline I've flown with is Etihad.

My last 5 flights have been with Etihad

Closely followed by Emerates

 

Worse airline was indonision airlines

[phantom51red]

anyone flew with air france,we fly newcastle to paris then bkk.good price from newcastle £430 for whit week 23rd may.

 

 

i just got flight with air france for may £450 from aberdeen thats a bloody bargain as im just back last week and klm flight £630 !

couldnt care about inflight entertainment as i take my own ,cdg instead of schipol too[not sure whether thats good or bad ].

[dude8888]

My preference is for ANA or JAL.

 

ANA flies the Boeing 777 which is new, has large reclining seats, personal monitors for movies and the BEST stewardesses. HOT Jap babes. Drooooooool.

[Bored_N_Iraq]

Emirates is by far the best airline in the world. If you can get to London from AMS you could fly to Dubai and then onward to BKK. KLM, Air France...horrible. Emirates goes out of their way to make sure you flight is comfy. Not to mention the hot towel they bring you before and during the flight to freshen your face up. The meals are 5 star in economy. They leave shaving cream, razors, mouth wash in the over sized batrooms to freshen up anytime. They will plug your laptop in for you to charge. They also have a new jumbo jet that is state of the art. Never ANY complaints when flying with them. Drinks are always free and the on demand is crazy with like 100 channels. As far as price, you may pay a little more, but is so worth it. My ticket for May 15,2009 from Dubai to BKK was only $530 USD compared to Thai at $765.

[Rikky]

Emirates are very good but Etihad tops it for me. I think they are as good as Emirates but cheaper. Flight times are about the same but Etihad only goes from London and Manchester. Worst airline I've flown with is Kuwaiti, never again.

regards,

[panasar]

Good ones: Emirates, Etihad, Thai, Eva and Qatar, but the Qatar airport is shit.

 

Ones to avoid.: KLM and BA\Quantas

[wild58]

Etihad for sure went from bangers to manchester last year very good service good price

[Agent09]

Emirates from Bham for me instead of LHR seems an unreal bargain at GBP 399.90 in 3 weeks time, the alternative nearest for a direct being Thai from LHR for GBP 528.00. I have never flown one stop to Bangkok before always direct but at that price and given the positives I have read about Emirates for once I am seriously thinking about this one, and also as Bham is so much nearer for me than trekking down to LHR and back.

 

What's the Dubai stop over like? It's a choice of one 7 hr followed by a 6 hr flight with interval or a 12 hour direct which I must say is nicer in many ways.. but quite a price difference even to Thai and my usual BA is like GBP 787.00 for the same flight.... with the rubbish exchange this is a bargain saver from Emirates.. and probably worth the stop..