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Lufthansa.

I believe I flew with Lufthansa from Germany to the Canary Islands once.

Wow this is old thread:p

Mandala Airlines (now defunct)
Singapore-Jakarta

was one of the better Indonesian LCCs, but apparently they didn't manage to survive, losing out to the likes of Lion Air, who just ordered record amount (US$21.7 billion!) of Boeing 737-MAX and 737-900ER

I fly Delta where ever I go.

They have rather nice cakes and muffins... and I love their free coffee machines at Munich airport!

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NorthWest airlines.

Following "K" so not really out of sequence:

Lot Polish Airlines

That was in 1995 from London Heathrow to Krakow and back from Warsaw to Heathrow.

Krakow airport was being repaired, so we flew into what was obviously a former military airfield near Katowice, which had a huge MiG fighter with Polish decals on a plinth at the entrance. We had prepared our currency declarations, only to get informed that they had changed the rules that weekend (it was a Saturday, so that very day in fact) and we didn't need to declare every last coin any more.

Then a rather bumpy ride in the dark from Katowice to Krakow, find a taxi and get to where we were staying by about 23.00 hours. The desk clerk didn't speak any English, neither did his wife. Collecting Polish stamps for years without a decent English language catalogue does help after all!

Getting home was no problem. The nicest airline food I have ever had was on Lot. I had had two weeks to practise my Polish by then, so was able to talk to the man next to me who was visiting his relatives who had emigrated/escaped during the war.

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Air Lingus
British Airways
American Airlines
Air Berlin
Lufthansa
Hawaiian Airlines

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You also missed Lufthansa. Flew a few times with them but the best/worst was from from Paris to Copenhagen. I am sure the pilot was an ex-luftwaffe pilot looking to dump his bombs somewhere/anywhere- all over the sky, cabin door open, calmly drinking coffee and trying his luck with a hostess. Don't even ask about Frankfurt. Anyone who can transit there is an orienteer who can handle the best/worse terrain in the world. Terminal 1? 2? 3? Forget it!!

So you missed out on the near frozen bread rolls and unidentified fillings?

I've flown Lot from Warsaw to London. Warsaw to Cyprus. At least we arrived on time but they still had the frozen breadrolls and unidentified fillings.

Finnair from Warsaw to Helsinki. Not too bad. I've looked at their flights to Oz- promising. Only an 8-9 hour flight to Bangkok instead of the 12-13 hours from London/Paris/Frankfurt to Singapore

N ?
O ?
P ?
Q means Qantas. Comments please. I've flown Qantas many times and no real problems EXCEPT......

Singapore 2005, call to get on board in Singapore. All on board, sitting...
Captain explains that generators are not working but auxiliary generator is fine so if all lights are switched off, no inflight movies etc he will have enough power to take off.

Take off ok..but toilets filled very quickly In-flight food? Luke warm ( can't overload generators) No in-flight movies, no moving map displays... thank god the crew were liberal with the alcohol.

Sydney at last. Now I know why Jan Pawel 2 knelt and kissed the ground when he dis-embarked- I wanted to do the same thing but it is difficult to do when your sprinting to the bus to get to the domestic terminal for the flight to Canberra.

Let me know when you get to W and I will tell you about Wizzair and Wallaby Airlines ( that is two different airlines). Well Wallaby airlines was actually a courier flight between Nui Dat and Saigon...ooooops. Ho Chi Ming city

"A - Z Airlines You Have Flown With"

That's the thread heading folks, so the next letter I think is O.

Olympic Airlines.

Flew them a few times from here to Europe and to Egypt.

They very kindly flew me First Class as I was writing on my travels with them.

They were more or less the Greek national carrier.

I think they are Kaput now, like many things in Greece?

Portugália Airlines, from Lisbon to Barcelona, last year.

They even had "an ice-cream" service which sure made my day

A huge storm had just been and was going away by the time we made the decent into Barcelona, leaving for a beautiful view out the window, with the sun poking through menacing clouds as thick as the icing on a wedding cake!

Sorry Glen, but I can't wait until Y to post this:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6VLYpKGVBUg - Yorkshire Airlines

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In my life I have flown over 4,000,000 miles as my father worked for a multinational as I did later.

While in Australia:
TAA
Ansett
Qantas
Aero Pelican (The amphibious Sydney-Newcastle run)
UTA (French)
Pan Am
ANZ
Societe Le Nickel private fleet in New Caledonia
The Fiji regional from Nadi to the capital


While in Europe
BOAC
BEA
Lufthansa
Iberia
Air France
Swissair (1st ever Flight 1952 in a DC-3)
Alitalia
The Belgian National airline - forgot name
MATS (Military Air Transport Service)

While in US
Ozark
Southern
American
United
Eastern
Northwest Orient
TWA
Continental
Southwest

In Asia
Singapore Airlines
JAL
ANA

All I remember for now

As I read this thread, I'm reminded I have a box full of boarding cards and ticket remnants used by my family and self on Airlines we have flown. Everything from Austrain to Yemeni Air.

Now to find it!

Huanga.

A - Z Airlines You Have Flown With

Let's stick to ALPHABETICAL please folks.

Anyone flown with an airline starting with "Q"?

Doubt it Glen - highly unlikely.

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Q!!

Used to stand for QUEBECAIR

They flew within Quebec. A typical commuter's and businesspeople airline. No tourist would ever take if it they had a choice. Their most hated plane was the Fokker F-27. Used for all kinds of short hops. It had the advantage of taking off and landing on very short strips.

Then, unfortunately, in 1979, one of them missed its take off at Quebec City. 20-some dead. A colleague of mine was supposed to be on that flight, he was delayed at the office and missed by 10 minutes.

I could not count the number of flights I took with them: Quebec City to Montreal, to Bagotville, to Sept-Iles, to Rouyn, to Val d'Or, to Rimouski, to Magdelaine Islands. I must have flown to all their destinations. For over a year, I would take the Monday morning 07:20 Montreal to Bagotville and back on Friday by the 18:50. Almost always with the same bunch of people.

Not a single good souvenir of it.

Memphre

I was on Qantas once, it was quite nice. LHR (London Heathrow) - HKG. The leg to London was supposed to be British Airways, but with their darned code-sharing, I ended up with Air Canada.

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Must have been decades ago Aethelwulf, as AC and QF/BA have been in heavily competing alliances for ... decades.

Back to the Alphabet and have flown 5 of the "R" airlines -

Royal Air Maroc

Royal Brunei Airlines

Royal Jordanian Airlines

Royal Nepal Airlines

Ryanair

And can't be sure but the Tongan internal airline I was on, was I *think* called Royal Tongan Airlines.

We need to get some air force members on here, to add RAF, RAAF, RCAF, RNZAF to the list.

The 'problem' when flying internationally out of Canada is chances are if your ticket is with anyone in the alliance AC belongs to, you'll end up code-shared to their flight instead, dealing with the grumpy mid-aged flight attendants and all the other things about the airline that make it reviled. Flying to LHR I had a BA ticket that became an AC flight; to Frankfurt the Lufthansa ticket transformed into an AC flight.

For S, there is anyone airline of mixed reputation, Southwest Airlines.

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"T"

In recent years have made a lot of flights within South America on TACA and TAM who are leading carriers there, and to Asia on Thai.

The end of the alphabet is usually tricky when it comes to alphabet threads. For U, haven't flown on them, but there's Uzbekistan Airlines. Given where they're from, the planes might look like this,

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Flew Virgin Australia from Perth to Sydney, to attend Sydney Stamp Show last year.

Flight was delayed by over an hour due to a faulty part, and there were doubts whether we would be leaving that afternoon at all (the last PER-SYD flight leaves at 3:30pm due to Sydney Airport's curfew).

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If anybody gets stuck have a look at http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Airline_codes-All

You can sort the 'Airline' column so the airline names are in alphabetical order. Includes a good number of defunct airlines, along with airlines which have changed names - might jog a few memories.

However, remember these are airlines you have flown with.

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Aethulwulf said:


During the 1989 pilots strike in Australia, the Royal Australian Air Force provided some limited domestic air services to ease the impact of the strike. Can't believe that people paid for web seats in a Hercules

During the strike, I recall getting standby rates at one of the resorts in the Whitsundays for $10 per day (accommodation and three meals). Prepaid rates were 10 to 15 times that.

Wizzair low cost airline. Flown with them and all ok, Check them out

Wallaby airlines was the courier service between Nui dat and Saigon. Flew with them twice.

First time, the most noticeable feature was the surface to air missile that exploded a couple of hundred feet below us. I think the pilot ALSO s... himself. I did.

Second flight coming in to Saigon the Caribou was only a few hundred feet of the runway when 2 F4 phantoms came in and flew underneath us onto the runway. Caribou pilot landed on the grass verges of the runway. By the time we came to a stop the F4's were re-bombed, re-fuelled, re-armed and off again.

Not recommended for the faint of heart.

Yemeni Air. It once had four aircraft, One was between Jeddah and San'na, another was always on standby in case the President had to leave in a hurry! [As he did quite recently!]

One was used to patch the others and as a spares store. They last was on the Bombay-San'na route. I flew this route a few times but one trip I especially remember. The pilot was an Afghani and drank whiskey!

We left Bombay and I was the only passenger in first. The pilot came by and sat down. A few whiskeys and a chat and a comment from me that the mountains beneath always seem to get higher each time I return to San'na.

He leaned over me.....looked!.......swore!........jumped up and dashed up front. Perhaps 15 to 20 seconds later the engines began to scream and we climbed.....fast!!

He returned after about 5 minutes and began cursing the engineering staff at Bombay. I asked the cause and was told the auto pilot was misbehaving. My next question was to ask if the first officer was experienced? That was the wrong question!!!!!!!!!

We did not have one. He was drunk and the pilot decided to leave him in Bombay. Of course that was before Bombay became Mumbai and it was yemeni Air.

huanga.

Well we are up to "Z" and the only one I can recall flying on with that letter is Zimbabwe Airlines a few times.

On this trip coming back from the Kalahari for Xmas they swapped our Zim Air place for this -

Then an Air Botswana flight to Victoria Falls, followed by an Air Zimbabwe flight to Hwange. The Air Zimbabwe plane was out of the country on one of Mr. Mugabe's 30 overseas 'visits' of 1996, so a beautifully rebuilt & restored (1995) Air Namibia 4 propeller DC-6 was substituted. This was the very last DC-6 to roll off the Boeing line in 1958 . . . it had been Marshall Tito of Yugoslavia's VIP plane, and later given to President Kenneth Kaunda of Zambia. A REAL stylish plane of a bygone era. Full pull-down bunk beds and all the trimmings!

HWANGE (until recently called WANKIE - true!) is the largest National Park in Zimbabwe and is teeming with game. Saw so many giraffes in big groups blocking the road it became almost boring! Masses of Wildebeest (Gnu), Zebra, Bat Ear foxes, Mongoose, Vervet monkeys and Baboons, Sable, Giraffe, Kudu and Impala were everywhere. Sitting up in the top floor thatch covered bar sipping beers and watching all the game come to the waterhole is my kind of 'Safari'!.

http://www.glenstephens.com/africa.htm

On another African holiday took Zimbabwe Air on the long flight from Harare to Nairobi over dense jungle for the most part.

Brand new 737 ... had 4 flights under her belt.

Half way there black acrid smoke started belching from air vents. Sirens went off, oxygen masks dropped, and everyone panicked.

We landed without incident and at no time did the flight crew EVER tell us what occured. Amazing.

Glen