SE210Caravelle From United States of America, joined Dec 2004, 239 posts, RR: 1 Posted (7 years 10 months 3 weeks 1 day 23 hours ago) and read 1974 times:
Airbus3801 From United Kingdom, joined Apr 2004, 1089 posts, RR: 5 Reply 1, posted (7 years 10 months 3 weeks 1 day 23 hours ago) and read 1970 times:
North America- United
South America- Close between LAN and Varig
Europe - Air France and BA
Africa - South African hands down
Middle East - Emirates
Asia - SIA and CX
FlyMIA From United States of America, joined Jun 2001, 6284 posts, RR: 6 Reply 6, posted (7 years 10 months 3 weeks 1 day 5 hours ago) and read 1918 times:
North America - American
South America - Lan Chile
Europe - British Airways
Africa - South African
Middle East - EK
Asia - Singapore
"It was just four of us on the flight deck, trying to do our job" (Captain Al Haynes)
RCS763AV From Colombia, joined Jun 2004, 4279 posts, RR: 14 Reply 8, posted (7 years 10 months 3 weeks 1 day 3 hours ago) and read 1913 times:
North America- American/Delta
South America- Dunno why people say RG is good for Sutham their network sucks, i would say LA.
Europe - Air France and BA
Africa - South African or Kenia
Middle East - Emirarates
Asia - SIA and Cathay
SE210Caravelle From United States of America, joined Dec 2004, 239 posts, RR: 1 Reply 9, posted (7 years 10 months 3 weeks 1 day 2 hours ago) and read 1903 times:
No way. There coverage is very limited and there service, I've heard, can be quite questionable.
Quoting RCS763AV (Reply 8): South America- Dunno why people say RG is good for Sutham their network sucks, i would say LA.
There netowk does not suck. Before making my decisions I viewed both airlines route network. They faired up pretty well and Varig has a larger fleet (I think) so I choose Varig.
Andz From South Africa, joined Feb 2004, 8298 posts, RR: 11 Reply 11, posted (7 years 10 months 3 weeks 11 hours ago) and read 1869 times:
As happy as I am to see SAA getting so many votes of confidence, I wonder about picking SAA as best carrier to Africa. From all destinations except the USA SAA have only 2 ports of entry in the African continent and they are both in South Africa; there is a lot more to Africa than this! By all accounts Kenya Airways and Egyptair are good African airlines too, and many other excellent airlines fly to this country, not to mention the rest of the continent. Every day you can drive past JNB and see BA, VS, EK, AF, LH, KL, QF, SQ..... SAA has lots of competition!
After Monday and Tuesday even the calendar says WTF...
YULQC From Finland, joined May 2005, 43 posts, RR: 0 Reply 13, posted (7 years 10 months 2 weeks 3 days 23 hours ago) and read 1801 times:
For me...
N-America: AC
Latin America: only flew MX and TA.. out of the two.. TA
Europe: Close but now they are a joint company.. KL and AF
Pacific: Only flew QF once from YVR to HNL.. loved every bit of this flight! And TN close second but only flew LAX-PPT-LAX...
RCS763AV From Colombia, joined Jun 2004, 4279 posts, RR: 14 Reply 14, posted (7 years 10 months 2 weeks 15 hours ago) and read 1721 times:
Quoting SE210Caravelle (Reply 9): There netowk does not suck. Before making my decisions I viewed both airlines route network. They faired up pretty well and Varig has a larger fleet (I think) so I choose Varig.
First, those maps are worng, they do not show LA service either to MAD or FRA:.
Im saying RG´s network sucks b/c no one flying from the Us or Europe to countries like Peru, Colombia, Venezuela or Ecuador would use GRU, while LAN has hubs in UIO, GYE and LIM which are more central and atleast cover 2 of the countries, plus SCL but that is a bad location too.
PPVRA From Brazil, joined Nov 2004, 8492 posts, RR: 43 Reply 19, posted (7 years 10 months 2 days 11 hours ago) and read 1619 times:
Quoting RCS763AV (Reply 18): Quoting TR763 (Reply 17):
They don't?? Funny, I can see them
No, the image with the map that shows services to MAD, FRA, PPT, Easter Island, AKL and SYD does not appear.
I posted two images, maybe you can't see one of them. But FRA/MAD/AKL/SYD service are there. Including the Islands.
The second image has two views of the globe. One is from a polar view that shows Antartica and NZ/Australia and the other one shows part of S. America/West Africa/Europe.
Quoting RCS763AV (Reply 14): Im saying RG�s network sucks b/c no one flying from the Us or Europe to countries like Peru, Colombia, Venezuela or Ecuador would use GRU, while LAN has hubs in UIO, GYE and LIM which are more central and atleast cover 2 of the countries, plus SCL but that is a bad location too.
Ok, but then nobody flying to the rest of the continent would really use LIM/UIO/GYE.
We have to look at this with relativity. Nobody really has a great route map in the region IMHO. LAN has a nice Andean network but lack on the international. RG flies to every country in SA except Suriname, the Guyanas and Ecuador (Bolivia has been temporarily suspended to local political situation) and has a pretty extensive international network.
However, one thing I do agree is that RG does not connect the rest of the continent to other Brazilian cities and that is really unfortunate IMO.
Cheers,
PPVRA
"If goods do not cross borders, soldiers will" - Frederic Bastiat
BSBIsland From Brazil, joined Jul 2005, 345 posts, RR: 2 Reply 21, posted (7 years 10 months 2 days 10 hours ago) and read 1606 times:
Quoting RCS763AV (Reply 14): Im saying RG´s network sucks b/c no one flying from the Us or Europe to countries like Peru, Colombia, Venezuela or Ecuador would use GRU
Maybe because their market is not between countries like Peru, Colombia, Venezuela or Ecuador to the US or Europe because of obvious geographic location.
And By the way i wouldn´t put Varig as the best in LatAm ever.
LAN, TAM and maybe others are for sure better options, but anyway a great route network.
TACAA320 From , joined Dec 1969, posts, RR: Reply 22, posted (7 years 10 months 2 days 6 hours ago) and read 1588 times:
Europe: British, Virgin, Lufthansa.
North America: JetBlue, Continental [in such order].
South America: Lan, TAM [equals].
Pacific [Oceania]: Quantas, Air New Zealand.
Asia: Cathay, Singapore.
Africa: SAA.
SW733 From United States of America, joined Feb 2004, 6072 posts, RR: 10 Reply 24, posted (7 years 10 months 2 days 4 hours ago) and read 1581 times:
N. America - Continental
S. America - American, LAN Chile
Europe - British Airways, Air France
Africa - South African, Kenya Air
Middle East - Emirates
Asia - Singapore, Cathay, JAL
25 AF773: N America: CO Europe: AF-KL Asia: SQ Africa: SA
26 SE210Caravelle: I change my answer for North America from United to Air Canada. I've grown to really like AC.
27 TACAA320: I'm confused. AA in S.A.? Is an U.S. carrier, NOT a Southamerican one. Maybe I misunderstand the "to" of the thread title as an "of".
28 Burnsie28: That got me if its TO each region that to me means, whose the best carrier Asia-US, now if it was IN each region then to me it would be like what eve
29 OzGlobal: "Best Airline To Each Region" ... from where????? Have you any idea how parochial this sounds? Europe-Oz: BA, CX, QF Oz- Asia: QF, CX, SQ Europe - US:
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