Originally Posted by
GCab
The relation to original post is to ask, is there any connection between 'less valued routes' and equipment/service (older planes, poorly-motivated crew, low passenger loads)? This occasion certainly felt like a 'poor relation' flight compared to LHR-JFK.
On my regular routes, I've had great crews, I've had OK crews and I've had duff crews. For that matter, I've had great aircraft, OK aircraft and duff aircraft. And my worst-ever CW flight was a LHR-JFK.
So IMHO the answer is no.