A friend and I took the bait on a cheap fare plus double miles offer from TWA this past weekend. We flew from PDX to Barcelona for $397 each. The bottom line is, I guess you get what you pay for.

While the experience in beautiful Barcelona was ultimately worth the long flight, I would never take TWA on such a long haul again. In fact, if it were not for the fact that I got 29,000+ miles out of the one trip, I would NEVER fly TWA again.

The planes were mostly old and not too tidy, not to mention their gate areas (the JKF terminal was exceptionally awful). The seats on the MD-80 on the first and last legs were cramped even for my 5'7" frame. And why, oh, why are they flying 757s on the transatlantic legs???

The food was horrible. I know, I know, you're not supposed to fly for the food, but I guess I expected more than snack bags for the long domestic legs.

I hate to look the FF gift horse in the mouth, but I'm tempted to exchange the miles from this trip through HHonors and take the loss.

Hate to start a new topic with such a gripe fest, but I'm just wondering why anyone would choose to fly TWA. Frankly, I'm surprised they're still in business. At any rate, I'll never complain about United or Delta again!!

Cheers,

Essxjay