Usair320 From United States of America, joined Nov 2003, 991 posts, RR: 3 Posted (6 years 10 months 4 days 9 hours ago) and read 2752 times:
Well I havent but I have flown FL in Buisness class. Just wondoring about what the planes were like, Service ECT. I have always avoided them in the past due to there safety issue.
Iahflyr From United States of America, joined Jun 2005, 4738 posts, RR: 25 Reply 1, posted (6 years 10 months 3 days 23 hours ago) and read 2738 times:
Valujet?? I had to look at the twice at the date of your post to make sure I was actually reading the correct date! Valujet, do u actually mean AirTran?
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Cadet57 From United States of America, joined Jul 2005, 9081 posts, RR: 34 Reply 2, posted (6 years 10 months 3 days 23 hours ago) and read 2738 times:
Quoting Usair320 (Thread starter): . I have always avoided them in the past due to there safety issue.
Umm dude. where have you been? Valujet hasnt been around since they merged with Airtran. Which is one of the best LCC's out there.... Completely safe.
Doors open, right hand side, next stop is Springfield.
747LUVR From United States of America, joined Jul 2005, 392 posts, RR: 0 Reply 5, posted (6 years 10 months 3 days 8 hours ago) and read 2715 times:
I flew ValuJet back in 1993 when they were in existance. Flew FLL-St Pete on their MD80. Quick hop over the state of Florida...nothing out of the ordinary or special.
Cody From United States of America, joined May 1999, 1918 posts, RR: 9 Reply 8, posted (6 years 9 months 3 weeks 1 day 10 hours ago) and read 2599 times:
The slogan was "Good Times, Great Fares" and that pretty much sums up the ValuJet experience. I would compare it to the service of Southwest or the first PSA. Uniforms leaned more toward the casual side with dockers, polo shirts, sweaters, and turtle necks. An overall fun environment with on board games, contests, and prizes. Fares were generally lower than the majors. Free soft drinks and beer and wine for the typical cost.
The airplanes,.....what a hodge-podge. The first DC-9's to arrive on property came from Delta and for the longest time had the Delta orange and pink "Brady Bunch" interiors. Later DC-9's came from Turkish, Express ONE, Midway, SAS, and others. I remember they did have some standards about the condition of the planes that they bought as I had heard the old Eastern birds were not in good enough shape to purchase. There were several different interiors across the board (depending on where the airplane came from), but ValuJet eventually refurbished most of them in their own blue and magenta upholestry which looked quite nice.
Something else of interest that I have never seen anywhere else. If you were hired there during the early years, you had a training "grace period" and after that your co-workers voted if you could stay or not. I think they later did away with this program.
United319 From United States of America, joined Jul 2006, 513 posts, RR: 0 Reply 9, posted (6 years 9 months 3 weeks 22 hours ago) and read 2576 times:
AirTran is a perfectly safe airline. With a completely unbiased opinion, I really do think FL is the best of the LCCs. AirTran is NOT Valujet, you cant really compare the two anymore, especially since weve done away with the DC-9. But when Valujet was around, they were a great little LCC.
OPNLguy From , joined Dec 1969, posts, RR: Reply 10, posted (6 years 9 months 3 weeks 4 hours ago) and read 2552 times:
Speaking strictly about Valujet (and not AirTran), I did once fly them SDF-ATL. It was an older DC-9 (all they had back then), on an originating flight (and the coffeemakers were not working). One thing I noticed was that the entire F/A crew wore mini-Maglight flashlights (2 AA-cell) in little holsters on their belts. I must admit it got me to briefly wondering if they had frequent black-outs in the cabin, as I'd never seen any airline do this--F/A flashlights were always kept in the F/A's bags. Made it into ATL just fine.
I flew AirTran DFW-ATL-BUF some years later (on a 717 both legs) and had a nice ride. I didn't notice the flashlights--maybe they were indeed specific to the previous DC-9 flights?
Jeremy From United States of America, joined May 2001, 668 posts, RR: 1 Reply 11, posted (6 years 9 months 2 weeks 6 days 21 hours ago) and read 2545 times:
Yep,
January 1995 ATL-MCO
March 1995 MIA-ATL
They were all right. Friendly crews but old, run down aircraft.
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