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Which is the worst airline in the world?
- Thread starter whatsinaname
- Start date
Why is China Airlines not on there?
Korean Air is a fantastic (yet expensive) airline.
Therefore, WTF @ that poll.
Korean Air is a fantastic (yet expensive) airline.
Therefore, WTF @ that poll.
Ryanair. They offer all these 'cheap' flights but then you have to pay extra even for the right to breathe basically.
I have heard this, and I have heard it's not even a debate.
Fucking Spirit by a long shot. Last flight I was on with them they had an attendant selling a credit card the entire descent. Guy was holding on to the top luggage racks walking around giving out little forms and very aggressively selling this thing to everyone. Bad enough they have the worst seats and least comfortable aircraft around.
just got off united op and you were right. complete dogshit and easily one the worst flights i've had
There's my answer.
TigerAir. Even your rock bottom expectations are shattered by how bad they are.
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I never really had an issue with Ryanair before last August.
We're flying back from Poland to the UK and the flight was supposed to leave Wroclaw at 16:10. Due to unknown delays, the flight until 00:35.
I complained about the delay and didn't think I'd get anything back. However, a month later I had an email confirming they had paid me Ā£680 compensation for the delay! Being stuck in the airport for hours was a nightmare, but getting Ā£700 back made it worth it
We're flying back from Poland to the UK and the flight was supposed to leave Wroclaw at 16:10. Due to unknown delays, the flight until 00:35.
I complained about the delay and didn't think I'd get anything back. However, a month later I had an email confirming they had paid me Ā£680 compensation for the delay! Being stuck in the airport for hours was a nightmare, but getting Ā£700 back made it worth it
I flew out of England recently, and the entire Ryanair experience was horrible. And I'm used to flying dirt cheap Spirit flights, those always pass by with little aggravation.
Last Ryanair flight I was on they forgot to open the back exit of the plane (guess where we were) and locked the entrance to the airport.
Allegiant....free.
Every flight has been miserable, 1 emergency landing due to plane problems, roughest landings in the world, and the one time I didnt go with my friends to Vegas, one of the engines caught fire and they were forced to make an emergency landing.
Every flight has been miserable, 1 emergency landing due to plane problems, roughest landings in the world, and the one time I didnt go with my friends to Vegas, one of the engines caught fire and they were forced to make an emergency landing.
Fun topic.
Regarding WizzAir as a low-fare company, I always found it quite good if you make sure to plan your packing, and it also heavily depends on in which country you deal with their staff. Here in Sweden, they're quite good, but in other countries where they operate, if they catch you with excessive baggage, it's a world of hurt.
Also, I've flown with Aeroflot from Europe to Moscow, then another domestic flight within Russia, and I thought it was perfectly fine! Didn't seem any worse than, let's say, Lufthansa or something. Good food and the planes were in good shape and the cabin personnel proper and friendly. I'd assume they have shaped up massively in recent times.
Regarding WizzAir as a low-fare company, I always found it quite good if you make sure to plan your packing, and it also heavily depends on in which country you deal with their staff. Here in Sweden, they're quite good, but in other countries where they operate, if they catch you with excessive baggage, it's a world of hurt.
Also, I've flown with Aeroflot from Europe to Moscow, then another domestic flight within Russia, and I thought it was perfectly fine! Didn't seem any worse than, let's say, Lufthansa or something. Good food and the planes were in good shape and the cabin personnel proper and friendly. I'd assume they have shaped up massively in recent times.
I'll say Ryanair is surprisingly good when traveling with babies, sometimes actually better than premium airlines. Usually you don't have to pay extra for the stroller, you get priority, etc. Genuinely good service. I think they reckon the crying and kicking the seat in front of you all add to that vintage Ryanair experience.
china airlines isn't bad ā i'd put it over air china at least, or any other mainland airline really.
but yeah why on earth is korean air an option in this poll?!
ryanair is the obvious answer but you kind of know what you're getting into there. also i like that the seats don't recline.
the most consistently terrible airline i ever regularly fly is delta.
You get what you pay for. I can get a ryanair flight from Frankfurt to Barcelona for 18ā¬, OF COURSE they'll offer dirty seats, no leg room, no service to speak off in the cabin etc.,
Let's make a list of things that will probably make your European Ryanair flight insufferable:
- The plane will be late
- Because of late arrival, the will be a delay
- The gate is the farthest away in your terminal, because Ryanair has booked the cheapest possible part of the airport.
- Sometimes the boarding happens at some hangar outside the gates, so while you are supposed to be "boarding", you will just wait at a hangar for 20 minutes, standing
- Because of late arrival, sometimes you will even wait in front of the airpor aisle, while passengers get out of the airplane
- Therefore you will be sitting on chips crumbs and a dirty airplane
- The flight attendants seem like the unhappiest people on Earth
- If you catch a night flight, prepare for
a) lights on throughout the flight
b) a barrage of announcements for food menus, duty free purchases, lottery tickets and other shit that will not let you sleep at all
- seats are tight and uncomfortable
At least it's still seemingly safe to fly with them
- The plane will be late
- Because of late arrival, the will be a delay
- The gate is the farthest away in your terminal, because Ryanair has booked the cheapest possible part of the airport.
- Sometimes the boarding happens at some hangar outside the gates, so while you are supposed to be "boarding", you will just wait at a hangar for 20 minutes, standing
- Because of late arrival, sometimes you will even wait in front of the airpor aisle, while passengers get out of the airplane
- Therefore you will be sitting on chips crumbs and a dirty airplane
- The flight attendants seem like the unhappiest people on Earth
- If you catch a night flight, prepare for
a) lights on throughout the flight
b) a barrage of announcements for food menus, duty free purchases, lottery tickets and other shit that will not let you sleep at all
- seats are tight and uncomfortable
At least it's still seemingly safe to fly with them
As someone who flew from Denmark to Italy with Ryanair last summer, all of this is so damn true. We got to the destination and it was fairly cheap, but man fuck all the surrounding noise with them. Departures were late both ways, shittiest possible terminal/airport in Italy with not enough seating for all the passengers for the already delayed flights and just the dumbest possible boarding procedure where they want you to pay more just to board a few minutes earlier.
The boarding system was just so goddamn dumb, people were super confused and nothing made logical sense, why even split the line into two to begin with, everyone was going to the same damn flight.
Thankfully i'm flying with SAS and Asiana Airlines for my trip to South Korea on friday, i'm expecting it to be a much nicer time than that dinky Ryanair flight i had last summer.
They were good for me(so far atleast) for quick trips. Just take them outside holiday season lol
The funniest thing is people that paid "priority" boarding (among them myself too) rushing to get into the airplane after waiting outside at some shitty hangar, only to reach another line (2nd after boarding) and just stand OUTSIDE, waiting for the plane to arrive. We literally had to wait, watch it land, turn, stop, wait for the passengers to get out, and then get in.
After the 2nd and 3rd time this happened to me (unfortunately I had had to flight a lot of time with them) I started laughing at the people just rushing to board, only to stop outside the boarding area because the plane was not there, lol.
Yeah, something similar happened when going to the plane, the two damn lines got mixed and those with "priority" didn't board any faster than those who didn't pay for it, it was so dumb lol.
I do believe with Ryanair you get priority boarding for "free" if you pay for 2 cabin bags anyway so that's why so many people got it.
Ryanair objectively can't be great, however they can be so cheap that they are far from the worst just based on that merit. You feel kinda filthy going with them, but even with luggage and extra legroom I often hit under 100 Euros for nearly anywhere in Europe which is impossible to pass up when every other option almost runs double or more.
Plane was never dirty for me and the service people really trying the best they can given the budget. They were always friendly.
Plane was never dirty for me and the service people really trying the best they can given the budget. They were always friendly.
I funningly had none of those departing from and going to Berlin yet. And I have flown with Ryanair like 4 times over the last year. Maybe they bother more on some connections
I've flown almost once per month since last fall - mostly to Central Europe (Budapest, Vienna, Prague) and Athens. All of these happen in some variation almost every time, especially since Easter.
Yeah, i believe there was something about that and that makes a little more sense, but the actual boarding procedure was still so remarkably dumb.
Basically they advertise it is BOARDING options, but its basically "do you want to travel with your luggage on board, or with no luggage at all"?. Most people do not want to check in for short european flights, so either you do "priority" boarding and you take luggage with you or you do no priority and you don't have any luggage.
Priority boarding vs normal boarding means literally nothing.
I had a long haul return trip from NZ to Manilla, Philippines on Philippines Airlines, about 15 hours total flight time. Firstly, the "nonstop" advertised flight (which is why I chose it over Qantas) turned out to have a stop in Cairns, Australia, which I only discovered at checkin. The plane configuration wasn't very comfortable in economy space wise. The flight was delayed in NZ and in Australia, though not too much in each instance. The food was not good. The entertainment was limited (not sure my seat even had a video screen now I think about it). On the way back, boarding was delayed in Manilla by an hour, actual boarding was choas, then we sat on the tarmac for a while. Then they announced they were adding an additional stop within the Philippines to drop off some cargo they had taken on. After that unscheduled stop, we flew on to Cairns, and boarding was again delayed. We departed for Auckland several hours late by this point, and I knew I'd be pushing it to get the last available flight on to Wellington where I live which I had been rescheduled onto during the flight. When we finally arrived in Auckland, the pilots parked too close to the gate and we had to wait 15 minutes for a vehicle to tow us backwards so we could disembark. The air crew tried to make me wait for everybody else who was late for their connecting flight as I left the plane because for some stupid reason they thought waiting for everybody then going as a group to get our luggage and go through immigration would make it easier than just rushing ahead, but I insisted I leave being a seasoned veteran of the airport and did. I missed my rescheduled connecting flight to Wellington by 5 minutes , and had to stay the night in Auckland which Philippines Air did not pay for (because they wanted me to come from the Domestic Terminal all the way back to the International Terminal to fill out a form after having basically run across in the the other direction with my suitcase).
Not a single part of the experience was good. They managed to disappoint or fall below an acceptable standard in every aspect.
For the record in terms of good airlines, I'm biased, but Air New Zealand is great in almost every aspect other than they lean expensive relative to other airlines. Makes it hard having to transfer from them onto other airlines when traveling afar.
I have only been flying with a few airlines. KLM, SAS, Delta, Lufthansa, Ryanair, Air Berlin. These are the ones i can remember top of my head anyway.
Of those Ryanair were the "worst" but i only flew with them to London and the flight was like an hour or so. So it wasnt too bad. But its like Zero frills and not much comfort. It kinda feels like a city bus. But like i said only was on the plane for like an hour.
Of those Ryanair were the "worst" but i only flew with them to London and the flight was like an hour or so. So it wasnt too bad. But its like Zero frills and not much comfort. It kinda feels like a city bus. But like i said only was on the plane for like an hour.
I really can't wait until I figure out how to use my 65,000 United points and then switch to another FF service. EVA is probably a better option living in Asia.
It's one thing to talk shit about a cheap, budget airline. Their shortcomings make sense.
United on the other hand.....
United on the other hand.....
