My Rome flight

[Mr. Rude]

As for my flight experiences... No real problems at all. Back '03-'04 I ended up taking about 40 different flights due to work & moving. The one thing that really galls me is the people that bring on WAYYY too much carry-on. It's a flight that at most will be 3-5 hours on the domestic side. And take forever to get their shit stowed...Blocking the aisles...While the remainder of the people trying to board get to stand around like idiots.
My carry-on is a small knapsack that gets chucked under the seat...fast & easy

My simple travel rule. Bring half the clothes you think you'll need & twice the cash. If you need something at your destination...Buy it.

[wj_737_700]

Air Canada (which I will never fly again) did put me in a hotel overnight, and I did have to miss work for the first time in 3+ years because of it.

I usually fly Air Canada (despite my username ), I've never had a big problem with them, although i've only flown with them domestically (Vancouver-toronto- Sudbury) so I don't know how different they are when flying internationally.

I flew Westjet for the first time last year and the difference between them and Air Canada (from a service standpoint) was amazing. From now on, i'll probably end up flying Westjet.

[Gravekeeper]

I usually fly Air Canada (despite my username ), I've never had a big problem with them, although i've only flown with them domestically (Vancouver-toronto- Sudbury) so I don't know how different they are when flying internationally.

I flew Westjet for the first time last year and the difference between them and Air Canada (from a service standpoint) was amazing. From now on, i'll probably end up flying Westjet.

Air Canada is having some hiccups lately. I'm getting a fair amount of calls from their passengers needing emergency bookings this week. Just got off the line with one. ;p They do cover your room though. Most airlines won't ( America West <shakes fist> )

If you were stranded by Air Canada did they give you a little voucher with a number on it to call for a hotel? If so, you called my company. -.- If you called between 11pm and 7:30am pacific you may even have spoken with the infamous Gravekeeper himself. =p

[tollbaby]

Gah. AIr Canada is evil LOL Every time I fly with them, something bad happens (well not horrible, but annoying anyway). I've switched to American AIrlines (I'm sorry, I'm Canadian, but if they shape up, I'll move back! I swear!) and had no problems whatsoever with them Continental? Don't even get me started (although I blame the dinkus who made my travel arrangements that time...)

[Rapscallion]

I came over on Air Canada and will go back with them - they were the cheapest...

The alleged entertainment on board in catle class proves it. The staff were nice enough, though.

I've got a redeye flight tomorrow. yay!

Rapscallion

[AirHostess]

I came over on Air Canada and will go back with them - they were the cheapest...

The alleged entertainment on board in catle class proves it. The staff were nice enough, though.

I've got a redeye flight tomorrow. yay!

Rapscallion

Did you talk to the cabin crew and get nice food?

[Rapscallion]

Nope - apparently I didn't have the secret handshake or something. Do I have to wink three times during the safety announcement or after? I'm flying out in fourteen hours, so I may be able to check back in time to find out.

Rapscallion

[AirHostess]

Just go to the back galley and start chatting or say you're cabin crew for another airline

[biscuitchan]

I've hardly ever flown. I flew a bit when I was a baby, but, you know, I don't remember it.

I flew once when I was really young. I remember getting off the plane. =/ I flew in a Hercules at an Airshow my Dad was helping out at when I was about 8 or 9 ('cause he engineers on planes), and I flew internationally for the first time last year, to Barcelona. I had my sketchbook with me and I was randomly drawing long-limbed werewolves, and the hostess' were complimenting it. Shucks. On the way back, one of our kids delayed the plane by about half an hour because he suddenly got the willies and refused to travel. He came back the following monday (he flew back on the friday), after he got prescribed some chill pills. =D Oh yeah, when we went through security, ALL the boys had to be searched because everyone of them were wearing decorative metal belts that set the alarm off. We thought it was funny, anyway.

[Kilamon]

A guy I know has a lot of piercings. A lot. And none of them are visible. Depending on how sensitive the metal detectors are set, he'll get pulled out for wanding and it's always interesting to see the security folks wand his crotch and all he says is "It's pierced."

[Tanasi]

The worst flight I ever experienced was in 1990 going from Panama to Homestead on a Herky-Bird. It was going along fairly well I didn't have to sit in the sling seats and was riding on the flight-deck when the crew-chief got this funny look on his face and started looking out the port side windows. He then told me to return to my folks. So on the way back I looked out a window just in time to see the outer most engine fall off. The nearest land was Fidel-land so the pilot nursed it to Git-Mo and managed to slam it into the run way. I'm not sure how many but there was more than one laundry problem that day. Luckily using some of my Dad's connections we caught a ride with some deck-apes to Charleston. I ain't ever going to get on another MAC flight as long as I live.

[zzapp the witch]

My pre 9/11 flying was fine. My post 9/11 flight was not. Notice I indicated only one. I'm sorry, but I hardly know you, whatever gave you the idea I'd let you have anal sex with me?

The only reason it went easier for me than it did for my mom (who was with me) was the fact that I was carrying my husband's flag in its box. One man tried to tell me I couldn't take the flag box on the plane because of its corners (potential weapon). I asked him what he thought would happen if I told the very crowded airport that he wasn't going to let a recent military widow fly home with all that she had left of her husband. He went and hid.

I no longer have any interest in visiting anywhere I have to fly to if I have to go through Hell just to get there.

[BusBus]

I have family that works for Air Canada and I still prefer to fly with other airlines. The last time that I flew, I went with KLM and the seats in economy class each had individual TVs with a wide selection of movies, TV shows and video games. I was so happy! They feed you pretty well too.

[Pagan]

We didn't really have any problems when we went to the UK last September. We flew out of Dublin coming back. That place amazed me, it was like barely controlled chaos to get checked in with Continental. Of course, our Loss Prevention guy where I work also works with TSA at the Sunport, so I was constantly asking him questions before we left.

The only real complaint I had was the choice of plane that Continental used for the trans-Atlantic flight coming back. Going over we had a wide-body 747 (I think) and we all had our own tv screens and headphones (watched the "Da Vinci Code" twice). Not coming back. 7 hour flight from Dublin to Newark, 3 hours from Newark to Dallas, and another 1.5 hours from Dallas to Albuquerque. I sat in the window seat the whole way. This was due to my dad having had prostatecomy a few months before and he needed the aisle seat. Took a week to recover from jet lag, took my knees two weeks to recover (long legs + no leg room = cranky knees).

The next time I go, I'm getting a flight from here to Houston and then a direct flight to Edinburgh!

[Jester]

....and all of those passengers are, without fail, night after night, ALWAYS from America West/US Airways. ALWAYS. Once in a blue moon we'll get some folks from Air Canada or Alaska that were stuck due to weather. But thats it.

America West seems to just dump people off at random, on a daily, at Las Vegas and Phoenix then tells them "Tough $@$^, here's a coupon" and tells them to go find a hotel room by themselves ( Which they of course have to pay for. ). They always seem to give them the impression that they'll cover the room, because they give them this voucher. But the voucher is only good for like 10% off a room and only at certain hotels.

My worst travel ever was my last flight experience, last March, and that was with, guess who?, America West/US Air. The details are long in the telling, so I'll spare you, but I have to give them credit for one thing....they DID pay for my unplanned night in a hotel in Ft. Lauderdale.

I am still annoyed with myself for never finishing my angry letter to the US Air/AWA folks, as without that letter, I am sure that that one bitch that treated me like a criminal or a terrorist is still for some unearthly reason dealing with customers. She should be fired, and I hope she gets shit-canned soon, if she hasn't already.