(17 Aug 2015, 8:02 pm)R852 PRG wrote I do have an interest in aviation, it's strange because I love the different liveries of planes, how majestic they look in the sky, but I have a strange hatred of flying itself. A mixture of post-9/11 worrying, long journey times and that god awful crap they call airline food. jet2 are terrible in my opinion, flying back to Newcastle with them on Thursday.
I haven't heard many good things of Jet2. I usually tend to fly BA, purely for where I want to go (usually Madrid, capital cities in Latin America) and I have to say, having flown on US/AA/AeroMexico after BA long haul and short haul, you definitely notice the difference in service. It's just a shame some of the 744s feel very worn out. The 77Ws are amazing to fly on. I still miss when they used to have the different tails representing different countries.
Although, I have to say my KLM have annoyed me in the past. I flew LED-AMS-NCL with them to get home for Christmas, before flying the same route in reverse back. On the way from AMS-NCL, I saw a little tug speed up to the side of our 737, and I saw a Tog24 bag with gold string around it - I knew it was mine. We were already late and had we been any earlier or on time, it wouldn't have got on the flight. Luckily, they shoved it on.
On the way back to LED, my bags didn't have such a good trip, as they got left in AMS. Had to wait three days to get them back. I wasn't happy as H&M/Zara/Pull and Bear in Russia usually cost a good 25% more due to import and air travel of goods. And now, I refuse to fly via AMS!