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Who Flies The Friendliest Skies?

FlyIGuy From United States of America, joined Feb 2004, 837 posts, RR: 0
Posted (3 years 1 month 3 days 1 hour ago) and read 2429 times:

AOL's Mystery Flyer goes undercover to find the friendliest flight attendants and the most helpful service. Follow her journey on Twitter.

No hot food, no pillows and blankets, and on some flights, no complimentary water. What's left? The one thing that can turn a long, meal-less coach flight from an ordeal to a joyride is...friendliness: helpful airline personnel and flight attendants with a positive attitude.

Over the next few weeks, I'll be traveling coast-to-coast on ten of our country's busiest airlines as AOL's Mystery Flyer. And I'll be looking to answer one really important question:

The airlines I will be flying are:

1. United Airlines
2. Continental Airlines
3. Delta Airlines
4. Southwest Airlines
5. JetBlue
6. AirTran
7. American Airlines
8. US Airways
9. Alaska Airlines
10. Spirit Airlines

http://news.travel.aol.com/2010/04/2...friendliest-skies/?ncid=webmaildl4

So who will get the best review ???

The opinions I post are of mine and mine alone, not of the airline I work for.

16 replies: All unread, jump to last

mogandoCI From , joined Dec 1969, posts, RR:
Reply 1, posted (3 years 1 month 3 days ago) and read 2378 times:

jetblue's staff is cheerful, fun, and friendly. VX is a close second.

with AA and UA, u kinda have to be flying F/J to get excellent service.

i always feel bad for the staff of US - they have to smile and remain friendly even though the unions absolutely can't get along with the boss.

MH017 From Netherlands, joined Apr 2005, 1633 posts, RR: 34
Reply 2, posted (3 years 1 month 3 days ago) and read 2301 times:

I had some really helpful and good F/A's during my recent ORD-IAH-SJU-EWR-ORD flights...

Never flew on AS, but heard good things about them too...

don't throw away tomorrow !

kgaiflyer From United States of America, joined Jul 2008, 3650 posts, RR: 1
Reply 3, posted (3 years 1 month 3 days ago) and read 2201 times:

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You might want to add XE and ZW to your list. Some of those ladies running the whole show
on short-haul CRJ-200 and ERJ-145 flights do amazing work.

And a shout-out to the FAs doing SFO-BOS on UA -- that is one long, long, endless flight.

FCAFLYBOY From United Kingdom, joined Nov 2006, 472 posts, RR: 0
Reply 4, posted (3 years 1 month 3 days ago) and read 2178 times:

Quoting kgaiflyer (Reply 3):
And a shout-out to the FAs doing SFO-BOS on UA -- that is one long, long, endless flight.

Rubbish try doing LGW-BJL, or even worse LGW-YYZ return, off duty outbound, work inbound, no night stop
= hell on earth.

Having said that, SFO-BOS is long, kind of like LGW-SSH which alot of airlines in the UK do, not nice.

fca767 From United Kingdom, joined Nov 2006, 1720 posts, RR: 0
Reply 5, posted (3 years 1 month 3 days ago) and read 2164 times:

Being from UK, travelled on USair,Delta,American I think I'll go for Southwest or Jetblue as someone else said

sw733 From United States of America, joined Feb 2004, 6072 posts, RR: 10
Reply 6, posted (3 years 1 month 3 days ago) and read 2131 times:

In my experience, it's definitely Southwest. I have not flown JetBlue though, but have flown all of the others. In my experience, US Airways, United and Spirit are the worst.

tharanga From United States of America, joined Apr 2009, 1778 posts, RR: 1
Reply 7, posted (3 years 1 month 3 days ago) and read 2118 times:

You'd have to fly each airline dozens of times, in order to get a fair sample. And the regional affiliates, too. Not every airline's F/As are all equally friendly, and not all of them have good days everyday.

SQ_EK_freak From United Kingdom, joined Dec 2000, 1583 posts, RR: 21
Reply 8, posted (3 years 1 month 3 days ago) and read 2118 times:

Surprised VX isn't on the list....?

Keep Discovering

hnl-jack From United States of America, joined Mar 2001, 795 posts, RR: 0
Reply 9, posted (3 years 1 month 2 days 23 hours ago) and read 2007 times:

Quoting FlyIGuy (Thread starter):
AOL's Mystery Flyer goes undercover to find the friendliest flight attendants and the most helpful service. Follow her journey on Twitter.

No hot food, no pillows and blankets, and on some flights, no complimentary water. What's left? The one thing that can turn a long, meal-less coach flight from an ordeal to a joyride is...friendliness: helpful airline personnel and flight attendants with a positive attitude.

Over the next few weeks, I'll be traveling coast-to-coast on ten of our country's busiest airlines as AOL's Mystery Flyer. And I'll be looking to answer one really important question:

The airlines I will be flying are:

1. United Airlines
2. Continental Airlines
3. Delta Airlines
4. Southwest Airlines
5. JetBlue
6. AirTran
7. American Airlines
8. US Airways
9. Alaska Airlines
10. Spirit Airlines

It is unfortunate that HA isn't on the list. Their FA's are amongst the most consistent and caring of the U.S. domestic carriers.

Grew up in the business and continued the family tradition.

PGNCS From United States of America, joined Apr 2007, 2516 posts, RR: 45
Reply 10, posted (3 years 1 month 2 days 23 hours ago) and read 1924 times:

Quoting tharanga (Reply 7):
You'd have to fly each airline dozens of times, in order to get a fair sample. And the regional affiliates, too. Not every airline's F/As are all equally friendly, and not all of them have good days everyday.

Exactly right. This bit has no validity. One person's subjective experiences in a flight or two doesn't paint a remotely accurate picture of reality.

Viscount724 From Switzerland, joined Oct 2006, 21488 posts, RR: 24
Reply 11, posted (3 years 1 month 2 days 16 hours ago) and read 1773 times:

Quoting PGNCS (Reply 10):
Quoting tharanga (Reply 7):
You'd have to fly each airline dozens of times, in order to get a fair sample. And the regional affiliates, too. Not every airline's F/As are all equally friendly, and not all of them have good days everyday.

Exactly right. This bit has no validity. One person's subjective experiences in a flight or two doesn't paint a remotely accurate picture of reality.

Agree. It's almost impossible to obtain any kind of statistically-meaningful data based on one flight. I've had good and bad flights on every airline I've flown on. That's true for any service industry where you're dealing with human beings rather than machines.

dc9northwest From Romania, joined Feb 2007, 1735 posts, RR: 4
Reply 12, posted (3 years 1 month 2 days 13 hours ago) and read 1734 times:

Spirit. Spirit will definitely get the best reviews.

They're amazing. Everyone raves about them lately.

fbgdavidson From United Kingdom, joined Oct 2004, 3687 posts, RR: 31
Reply 13, posted (3 years 1 month 2 days 11 hours ago) and read 1690 times:

Exactly. Also depending upon your perspective you might find different results. I find BA's staff generally professional but know others that find that approach stuffy. The same way my father found VS's staff to be rather informal and unprofessional others find it friendly.

"My first job was selling doors, door to door, that's a tough job innit" - Bill Bailey

charliefoxtrot From United States of America, joined Apr 2010, 5 posts, RR: 0
Reply 14, posted (3 years 1 month 2 days 10 hours ago) and read 1679 times:

VX, B6, CO, WN and... (personal experience) once you make it to the cabin, NK FA's are quite friendly.

Pe@rson From United Kingdom, joined Jan 2001, 18832 posts, RR: 54
Reply 15, posted (3 years 1 month 2 days 3 hours ago) and read 1640 times:

Quoting SQ_EK_freak (Reply 8):
Surprised VX isn't on the list....?

Me too! I had terrific experiences on it.

"Everyone writing for the Telegraph knows that the way to grab eyeballs is with Ryanair and/or sex."

signol From United Kingdom, joined Oct 2007, 2948 posts, RR: 7
Reply 16, posted (3 years 1 month 2 days 1 hour ago) and read 1627 times:

Quoting Pe@rson (Reply 15):

If this is to make news, the cynic in me says that's why they're not testing Virgin America. Everything nice does not make good TV (or blog rant, or whatever...)

signol

Flights booked: none :(

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