Originally Posted by
Smirnoff
S7 is the fomer Sibir Airlines, that formed out of the Novosibirsk division of Aeroflot. It's also had a few spectacular disasters recently, including the IKT incident from last year.
IIRC S7 was only to blame for the A310 crash; one of the Tu154's was shot out of the air by mistake by the Ukrainians during a military exercise and the other Tu154 was blown out of the sky by Chechen suicide bombers. In these last two cases S7 can hardly be blamed.
Originally Posted by
irmster
I know quite a bit about S7 (from work) and if there is one airline I avoid flying in Russia it's them. YMMV.
Could you elaborate please? The times I have flown S7/Sibir I was pleasantly surprised by their service (for Russian standards at least), but maybe I was just lucky and I should perhaps take more serious reasons into consideration to avoid flying them in the future...
Kras Air & Domodedovo AL (AiRUnion) e.g. on the other hand still offered old style Soviet service... So I was unpleasantly surprised when OS & LH signed a cooperation agreement with AiRUnion (and becoming a potential future *A member, God forbid...).
So should Oneworld consider themselves lucky/unlucky with S7 as a (potential) Oneworld member, and should *A as a consequence consider themselves unlucky/lucky if S7 will
not join them?