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From: tbg@apollo.uucp (Tom Gross)
Newsgroups: net.travel
Subject: Worst/Best Airlines
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Date: Fri, 14-Mar-86 17:33:10 EST
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    The recent horror stories about Eastern and American
    are interesting but if you want to know what a 
    REALLY bad airline is all about try AVIANCA.  
    I don't really want to go into the whole story 
    but if you remember the bus from "Romancing the Stone" 
    you get the right idea.  The only 747 I have ever flown 
    with cockroaches...
                                       
    I remember hearing a few years ago that there was a 
    consumer survey done in which people were asked to
    rank their preferences in airlines.  The survey
    showed that "U.S. Air" was a more popular airline
    than "Allegheny".  So, since there was at that time
    no airline by that name, "Allegheny" became "U.S. Air".

    No, I am not interested in conducting a survey.
    Personally I think Qantas is the best airline I have
    flown.  I have also flown Singapore Air, which
    is often cited as the best, but something about cartoons
    of little koalas showing how to sit on a long flight
    I found quite endearing.


    Tom Gross
    Apollo Computer, Inc.
    Planet Earth