Swiss International ...

Who cares about looking out of windows, visiting flight decks, doing rubber necking things ... Just sit back and enjoy a professional yet friendly cabin service with all the trimmings.

Thai Airways - Bangkok to Frankfurt - F Class

You'd expect good food, good drinks, comfy bed, jim-jams, slippers, decent toiletries etc - and indeed these were all delivered. Wasn't expecting to be tucked into bed however. Definately didn't expect to be invited to give the stewardess a call if I was in Bangkok again.

Qatar airways for me.
Sensational service (Yes - Daily mail headline!:yuk:) but true.
Help and advice, chat , food, drink, excellent safety culture.
Flown 10 times now with them, always fantastic service even on overnights. Welcome to chat the crew.

Bmi, MAN-London cockpit jumpseat from pushback til arrival. Just because I booked a last minute return.

Also loganair Islander Westray to Papa Westray, with a stuffed penguin on the windscreen for photo opportunity.

I had a great experience today.
easyJet from Lyon to Gatwick. Flight had been delayed by 3 hours (because of the runway works + fog) but the Cabin manager knew a former classmate (ATPL) and they did a great job in telling the pax why the flight was late, no lies or fob offs. :)

Qatar
 

Qatar airways, offer a great service from London to most of the eastern world..... via Doha.
I am based in Dubai, and regret to say both the airline that can not be mentioned, and that one that can, do not match QATAR service.
I travel to from London, as well as many Mid and far east destinations, and use Qater if on the route, even with the hour or so in Doha...great lounges.
Only complaint the T4 at LHR does not have third party lounges, the new Qater lounge is fantastic...but no third party lounge.......

Red Snail
 

Only problem, that should be the normal level, not an exception.......

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Phileas FoggI do! It's 75% of the flight for me. If I'm trapped even one seat away from the window for a 1hr hop - that is automatically a poor quality flight.

Pax Boy
Could not agree more, always like to have window seat:ok:. When you can not marvel at the view of this planet, and the sun rise / set, or the changing weather patterns that you can see from that height then I beleive somthing is missing :sad:. Just my thoughts, other,s I know have a different view, no pun intended !.

Me too, I am most uncomfortable if I can't have a window seat. I like looking out, but most of all it means I'm not knocked by people moving up and down the aisle, I don't have anyone climbing over me, I don't have to get in and out, and I can lean against the bulkhead.

Have to have a window seat. If I can see outside, I don't feel as closed in and I'm actually not as nervous during the flight. Plus I have something to lean on if I want to try and sleep.

Nice to see people still adding to this thread, by the way! :)

BA 0038 PEK-LHR
 

The excellent cabin crew team in WT+ on yesterday's BA flight from Beijing made this ten-hour flight a lot more pleasant than usual. Well done.

Had a good trip back from TLV-MAN on Jet2 last Monday evening. The flight took off on time (a rarity), landed on time (even more of a rarity) and there was enough space for all of us to share a spare middle seat.

So I had my preferred window seat with a reasonable view (partly obscured by cloud) of flying over the Greek Islands. Most enjoyable.

What a temptation is this thread title? And I’ve fallen for it – so here goes.

I preface the following by saying that I’m not “points scoring” here, just telling it how it was. And as I’m quite old and started this travelling thing early in life there’s a lot from which I can choose!

The best experience was London to Singapore – in 1951; departure late July by BOAC Constellation. The journey was via Rome –everyone out and into a bus with picnic and a tour of St Peter’s Square, then onto Cairo, for a nightstop in the Heliopolis Palace Hotel. Next morning another bus and en route to the airport a tour of the Sphinx and pyramids before the sector to Bahrain – the most unpleasant stop as it was for refuel and the only available accommodation for two hours was a tin Nissen hut. Then on to Karachi for the night in the Speedbird hotel, BOAC’s own guesthouse and the last two legs via a refuel in Calcutta to Singapore. You really knew you had travelled, and a lot quicker than six weeks on a liner!

The return on an Argonaut was less comfortable; a Canadian version of the DC6 with Merlins instead of “round” engines it was probably the noisiest airliner of the age!

Other “best experiences”? Two free flights to US on Concorde - courtesy of our travel agent who was BA’s “ticket consolidator”, and with whom I spent a lot of money.

But latterly, Air New Zealand gets the vote. Used them to NZ perhaps twenty times since 1983 and eight times in the last six years. Always on time, good, happy service and very good value.

I wonder who will win my award in 2022!