Unfortunately Malaysia Airlines remains on this list - it doesnt look like Mh370 will ever be found. Also bad reviews all round regarding its cost cutting measures.
Which are the airlines you wont fly which serve Australia?
Airlines Servicing Australia I Won't Fly
NotAnAudiophile on 12/05/2018 - 21:05
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No it isn't. It's a completely independent Airline which is based in Malaysia which is a LCC. But it isn't the Jetstar to Malaysia Air's Qantas.
Malaysian Airlines
Flew with them a few years ago and never came back. Literally a once in a lifetime trip.
Could you give us your GPS location, from where you write, some people might be very interested.
Flew 8 times with Malaysian airlines after the flight went missing and no complaints whatsoever so far apart from shitty food but that's not the context here. It could happen with any airlines.
I don't say that it's my favourite anyway, but if the price and schedule are in my favour, then I don't mind.
As far as food goes, my favourites are: Singapore airlines, Air India (amazing food), Cathay Pacific, and Etihad. Best food ever.
@D6C1: Possibly because one Malaysian plane flew through the war zone over Ukraine and was hit by a missile.
48°8′17″N 38°38′20″E
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Malaysia_Airlines_Flight_17Malaysian must be the worlds safest airline now.
Funny how when Qantas rights off a 747 at Bangkok(September 1999 think it was) it was downplayed. Story I heard is insurance company wrote off the aircraft & were paying $X million dollars. Qantas paid few million more(actual amount hidden) and somehow got the wreck of aircraft to China, where it was repaired. Apparently the repair wasn't very good & was very visible both inside & outside aircraft.
Apparently, Qantas did this, so they could say, they had never lost an aircraft.
A story going around, was that one of the pilots on the 747 that landed in the golf course, had getthereitis, as wanted to get to red light district, fast.
@wantitforless: I doubt they got an American 747 repaired in China. And I very highly doubt any repairs were in anyway visible.
@Burnertoasty: yes from memory it was repaired at Ademco (spelling) in Beijing. They were probably the lowest bidder. Yes easy to find photos online of repairs on LHS of aircraft, where new paint slight different colour to old paint.
won't fly Qantas. Their frequent flyer program sucks. Had to go to LAX for work few months ago (me paying) & had some Qantas points so thought I'd try & use them. Couldn't get frequent flyer seats the exact dates I wanted, unless prepared to go via Sydney, which added about 6 hours in each direction (live between Brisbane & Cool airports) & then the worse bit, on top of 96,000 points Qantas wanted nearly $500 in charges. So I called a few travel agents who specialise in North America & got a $799 return fare on Fiji Airways. Had 5 hours to kill at Nadi, so left airport, went across the road to Gateway Hotel. They gave us towels, no cost. We got a room for $70, had a swim, shower & had a few drinks, then headed back to airport 45 mins before departure. Walk is about 200 metres.
A few days before we flew, got an email from the airline saying could bid for upgrades. Turned out minimum bid for business class was $865. Didn't bid, but after a successful business trip was feeling good & dug up old email & bid on flight back LA to Fiji. We got the upgrade. Have flown a few times in business class few years back, when former employers was paying but never when I had to pay. Fiji Airways business class was excellent. We also got to use a Qantas lounge at LAX.
Ditto. Very poor track record.
I will not fly Ansett
Ansett's OK, but TAA, no way.
Where's my bosom!?!?!
Found Wonder Woman's secret identity
Same for me with PanAm
Pam-Am FTW!
Too many bogans on Jetstar for me
All the bogans have moved to Tiger
Bogans are young white males who live on dole money.
@blaccdong: The term "bogan" is not gender specific.
For example: Bazza can be a bogan, but Shazza can also be a bogan.
I agree… it is not gender specific… nor is it race related. I know a few people from working at my local school who I would class as 100% bogan, and not all of them are males, and most definitely some of them are not white.
@blaccdong: Not necessarily purely on dole money. Dole money isn't enough to let them buy even bus tickets, let alone air tickets. Let's be fair.
Then stop going to Bali for your overseas holidays :)
Where else can I smash bintangs and hurl abuse at the locals though?
Burma…good luck XD
Аэрофлот…
I have a flight with them soon I think :O
Aeroflot is a pretty safe and reliable company with new planes. They hand down their old planes to other Russian companies.
Airlines going to Constantinople, or Temasek. 😉
What about Siam ?
That's ok, as is Formosa.
Am I too late for the 4:30 auto-gyro?
We’ll take the sproose moose, hop in!
@Test Tickles: It'll carry 200 passengers from New York's Idlewild Airport to the Belgian Congo in 17 minutes!
Why? I went there a couple of years ago and it was fine (post coup). Sure, the government are crazy, but tourism still seems to be safe.
Air Asia
Malaysian Airlines
Scoot & Singapore Airlines
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Multiple issues with each, tops when Malaysia Airlines kept myself, 18 months old son & heavily pregnant wife from 10pm to 4am at Jakarta airport in an emergency flight redirection (engine trouble) to Jakarta only to load us into the last bus, as the last passengers, to a hotel 30 minutes away (arrive hotel, wait to checkin, in hotel room 5am) with instructions to be out of the hotel at 6:30am to take the next flight (bear in mind we had been checked through immigration at 11pm so there was no legal issue for earlier movement).At all times I was assured we would only have to wait 30 more minutes for the transport (no don't pay for your own taxi we won't give you the hotel details bus is on its way here), hotel is 5 minutes away & they would make sure considering my family status we would be on the first available bus. Instead keeping us to last with smirks on their faces (I was not at all unpleasant or explosive until the very very end).
…..
Convert credit card points into Singapore Air Miles to $700 Scoot Vouchers, call Scoot "girl in training" to book flights, she provides wrong information & makes the wrong booking, I call to correct 1 hour later after receiving their email with wrong details, asked to pay $600 in change fees (multiple tickets) (despite it not being my mistake & booking entirely new flights only costing $500 cash), manager listens to recording, agrees that it was the operator not myself that made an error and provided me with wrong information & flights but says sorry, because original flights were paid in vouchers that do not allow changes nor refunds thank you pay your cash (above the asking rate for the same seats booked on their website) or take the flights that were booked in the wrong names & dates (which is of course impossible), no refund of vouchers, no credit towards new booking, contact Singapore Airlines (no return of points - once vouchers are issued they are final it is up to Scoot (their subsidiary) to resolve), speak to 4 managers over 2 weeks multiple times, they completely admit 100% fault, but sorry, cannot do anything, you used vouchers (sorry) their policy is…..my policy.. never another $ to Singapore Airlines or their subsidiaries..left the Scoot booking hanging at a loss & flew Thai Airways & have since been making all Asian based flights via Thai Airways & Jetstar with no issues (but greater cost).
I fly on Singapore Airlines 4-6 times a month and never have issues.
In April I had 14 flights with them.Although don't book using vouchers or points.
I have also travelled with Singapore Air a lot previously with no issues.. but it was their points & their subsidiary & in their power to fix the issue and they chose not to. With family in Asia we make a lot of flights, would have been good business to come to the party.. I don't fancy paying the same robbers any more money as they move around behind different trading names & entities.
If I was ripped off by Audi I wouldn't go and buy a VW either..
Malaysia Airlines kept myself, 18 months old son & heavily pregnant wife from 10pm to 4am at Jakarta airport in an emergency flight redirection (engine trouble)
I rather be on ground than on air for six hours.
Scoot can be pretty crappy at times. I had to go to CASE (SIN's version of fair trading) to get them to refund money they had absolutely no right to keep.
I think all the people on productreview.com.au leaving their thoughts about getting ripped off by Scoot need to know about CASE. I wish I had known!
I find that a bit odd - sorta like not flying Virgin because TigerAir is terrible or Qantas because of Jetstar.
I understand the frustration, but I really don't think it makes sense to blame the parent as such - my experiences with Singapore Airlines have almost always been really great myself.
Comparatively speaking, I'm not sure why you'd pick Jetstar over Singapore at least :\
Wow, you had to pay for their error? That's f**ked up.
Sounds like your problem is with Scoot rather than Singapore airlines, basically what your saying is if westfield issued you a gift card - you went and spent it with a shop and they stuffed up, your blaming westfield for the store's stuff up?
You should have taken the scoot case further till they refund you or provide you with a voucher of the equivalent money.
Westfield would be the equivalent of my credit card provider in your example (who I am not blaming). Singapore airlines owns Scoot and is directly responsible for them & profits from them. Westfield is not the legal owner of the shops accepting its cards.
There is also a time limit on how much you can invest chasing a refund.. if 6+ hours over the phone over a couple of weeks does not provide a result I was pretty sure it was time to stop or go legal. If it were solely a local legal case, rather than international I would have done so. I was unaware of CASE mentioned by a previous poster as another avenue.
Try CASE now? You have the references? No harm dropping them a note?
@the4thzodiac: it was about two years ago, really want to move on ;) still happy to moan about it though ;)
Sorry, just cannot lah.
Pan-Am … i dont know how they could have let that 20 something kid slip through the cracks and pretend to be a qualified pilot. just crazy.
i could never trust them or fly pan am ever again..
He was about 17.
I concur
They would have caught that kid if they could.
air nuigini, most dysfunctional airline in the world.
100% agree with you but shouldn't be surprised as it is the 'land of the unexpected' after all!
Domestic travel was always fun, in particular when returning to PoM and everyone has their fruit/veg on the plane.lol. real talk… my dad was one of the big managers of air nuigini for 35 years..
we are sorry u feel that way.. lollol @ego22 - your old man had an uphill battle with everything over there I guess - hard work.
Generally speaking for a developing nation it was good service :)
TAA.
Probably still on the tarmac waiting for the last stupid passenger
Or in Diego Garcia at the military base, gotta hide those top secret Chinese scientists somewhere (insert x-files theme here)
Qantas. Had the most appalling experience on a flight with them to Johannesburg in 2016, I have done my best to avoid them as much as possible ever since. Have a newly discovered love for Virgin Australia though!
Agree with you absolutely! their ground staff at Adelaide airport are some of the rudest service personnel I've ever encountered. Flight cabin staff are mostly cold, mechanical and inhospitable…
Yes, they've always been very average any time I've used them.
I did around the world with QANTAS was up shit BA was not much better for services
Most confusing comment to understand. Sorry pal
He 'did' around the world with Qantas which was up the shit of a business analyst and that was not much better for their services (of upping shits).
Won't fly Malaysian Airlines. Even before the planes went down I had a codeshare flight with them (Emirates ticket). The plane landed and there was a loud bang as soon as it touched the ground and the plane pulled roughly to the right. The scariest experience of my life. Don't know if one of the tyres burst but it sounded like it.
That's hardly the airlines fault or a big deal. I once had a rough landing where at least 1 person, (but it smelt like more) shat their pants. Cathay at Kai Tak, but I still fly Cathay (but not impressed with their 9 across config in their new A350).
That's hardly the airlines fault
Poor maintenance/inspection procedures are a likely cause.
A burst tire? Bullshit. That can happen on any plane at any time. It’s also not dangerous.
@Baysew: That is not a tyre bursting on landing. That is a tyre catching fire because it was dragging along the ground on takeoff, and then getting retracted into the plane while on fire. Not the same thing at all.
Kai Tak ain't easy to land smoothly on that's for sure.
You don’t need a passport to fly domestically.
You still need ID
Doesn’t need to be a passport.
Since when.
@Yamai: it is a condition of travel with all airlines that you have valid ID when you travel domestically. whether they check it is another story.
I use self check-in kiosks or online. No ID needed, but always have a state-issued ID card with you.
Because who needs the Eiffel Tower when you have Eureka, right? And It's not like Costco in Anaheim is any better than Docklands.
I think the problem is you can have bad experiences with any airline. It then becomes a trade off of price vs perceived quality. If everything goes wrong you probably won’t go back, even if the reviews are generally good but you may be willing to forgive some issues if the price is cheap enough. My Jetstar flight left 6 hours late, which was annoying, but they gave us $10 vouchers for food, the flight was cheap, and I had no connection flights so, in hindsight, i’m willing to trade some quality on price.
Flew emirates once, their announcements were so loud it made my ears hurt, very off putting. I had also read rave reviews and it was just like any other airline.
I did a round-the world for work last year, flying Brisbane to London, London to Boston, and Boston (via LA) to Brisbane). All flights booked via Qantas, but all of them on different airlines.
Both legs to London were on Emirates A380s, and easily the most pleasant of the whole journey. Modern aircraft, comparatively comfortable seats, hospitable crew, the best IFE out of all of them, and also the best food (as far as cattle class airline food goes).
London to Boston was a middle-aged BA 777-200, and I was also stuck in a middle seat, not the greatest experience. Boston to LA was an AA 737 without IFE (well, they were supposed to have IFE via a phone app, but I couldn't get that to work because the UX of their app was appalling). Landed in LA an hour early but spent more than that hour cruising around on the tarmac because there were no open gates, so by the time I got off the plane I had to make a mad dash for my connecting flight.
That one was on a Qantas 747, and those things are getting really tired. Doesn't help that they've revamped the seating somewhat after my last flight on one of their Jumbos a few years back, you can still see that those planes have been around the block a few times. Also their food was pretty crap compared to both BA and Emirates.
Emirates is probably the airline I have traveled most on since 2008, and while I have no love for Dubai airport, I've always found flying with them a rather pleasant experience.
After what happened to Oceanic Airlines flight 815, if anyone suggests flying with them, I tell them to get lost.
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