Seat 2A

132 different airlines. Click on Flight Memory link below for details...

1 AERO CALIFORNIA
2 AEROLINEAS ARGENTINAS
3 AEROMEXICO
4 AEROVIAS D.A.P.
5 AIR ATLANTA
6 AIR BOTNIA
7 AIR CAL
8 AIR CANADA
9 AIR CANADA JAZZ
10 AIR FRANCE
11 AIR NAMIBIA
12 AIR NEW SOUTH WALES
13 AIR NEW ZEALAND
14 AIR NEW ZEALAND LINK
14 AIR ONE
15 AIR PACIFIC
16 AIR POLYNESIE
17 AIR SOUTH
18 AIR TAHITI
19 AIR TRAN
20 ALASKA
21 ALLEGHENY
22 ALLEGHENY COMMUTER
23 ALLEGIANT AIR
24 ALOHA
25 AMERICAN
26 AMERICAN EAGLE
27 AMERICAN TRANS AIR
28 AMERICA WEST
29 AMERICA WEST EXPRESS
30 ANSETT AUSTRALIA
31 ANSETT NEW ZEALAND
32 ASPEN
33 AUSTRAL
34 AUSTRALIAN
35 AVIACSA
36 AZTECA
37 BRANIFF INTERNATIONAL
38 BRITISH AIRWAYS
39 BRITISH MIDLAND
40 CASCADE
41 CATHAY PACIFIC
42 CAYMAN AIRWAYS
43 CONTINENTAL
44 CONTINENTAL EXPRESS
45 CP AIR
46 CSA CZECHOSLOVAKIAN
47 DELTA
48 DELTA CONNECTION
49 EASTERN
50 EASYJET
51 ECUATORIANA
52 FINNAIR
53 FLORIDA EXPRESS
54 FRONTIER
55 FRONTIER - F9
56 GOLDEN WEST
57 HAWAIIAN AIR
58 HORIZON
59 HUGHES AIRWEST
60 JET BLUE
61 JETSTAR
62 KULULA
63 LADECO
64 LAN CHILE
65 LLOYD BOLIVIAN
66 LUFTHANSA
67 MAERSK AIR
68 MALAYSIAN
69 MARKAIR
70 MEXICANA
71 MID PACIFIC
72 MIDWAY - RDU
73 MIDWAY EXPRESS
74 MOUNT COOK AIRLINE
75 NATIONAL
76 NATIONAL - N7
77 NEW YORK AIR
78 NORTH CENTRAL
79 NORTHEAST INTERNATIONAL
80 NORTHWEST
81 NORTHWEST AIRLINK
82 OZARK
83 PACIFIC EXPRESS
84 PACIFIC SOUTHWEST
85 PACIFIC WESTERN
86 PAN AMERICAN
87 PEOPLE EXPRESS
88 PIEDMONT
89 PIONAIR
90 PIONEER
91 PROVINCETOWN-BOSTON
92 QANTAS
93 QANTAS LINK
94 REEVE ALEUTIAN
95 RENO AIR
96 REPUBLIC
97 REX REGIONAL EXPRESS
98 ROCKY MOUNTAIN
99 ROYAL AIR MAROC
100 RYANAIR
101 SAS
102 SIERRA PACIFIC
103 SINGAPORE
104 SKY AIRLINE CHILE
105 SOUTH AFRICAN AIRWAYS
106 SOUTHERN
107 SOUTHWEST
108 SPIRIT
109 SUNWORLD INTERNATIONAL
110 SWISSAIR
111 TAESA
112 TED
113 TEXAS INTERNATIONAL
114 THAI INTERNATIONAL
115 TIGER AIRWAYS
116 TRANS AUSTRALIAN
117 TRANSTAR
118 TRANS WORLD AIRLINES
119 UNITED
120 UNITED EXPRESS
121 USA 3000
122 US AIRWAYS
123 US AIRWAYS EXPRESS
124 UTA
125 WESTERN
126 WESTERN PACIFIC
127 WESTJET
128 WIEN AIR ALASKA
129 WORLD
130 VANGUARD
131 VIRGIN AMERICA
132 VIRGIN BLUE


Dodgiest Airline: World Airways

graraps

I'm at just under 40, and I am shocked that so many FTers have a count of 15 or so:

Aegean Airlines
Aeroflot Russian Airlines
Alitalia (and Alitalia Express)
Air Greece (subsequently merged into A3)
Air Europa
Air France (and Britair)
Aserca Airlines
Austrian Airlines
Axon Airlines (now defunct)
Britannia Airlines
British Airways
British Midland Airways (not flown them after they became bmi)
Cathay Pacific Airways
Cretan Airlines (Charter) (now defunct)
Cronus Airlines (subsequently merged into A3)
CSA Czech Airlines
Easyjet
Etihad Airways
Iberia
Kenya Airways
KLM
Lot Polish Airlines
Lufthansa (and Air Dolomiti)
Malev
Mihin Lanka (now defunct)
Olympic Airways/Airlines/Aviation
Santa Barbara Airlines
Singapore Airlines
South East European Airlines (now defunct)
Spanair
Srilankan Airlines
Sterling (now defunct)
Swiss/Crossair
Thai Airways
Transavia (on a KLM code)

I am sure I'm forgetting a couple...Soon to try out CZ and KE (and DY) for the first time!

Dodgiest one...most of them have been (sometimes surprisingly) quite decent. It's probably going to have to be Olympic (I obviously did have some problems with AZ, but their employees have invariably been very willing to help me solve them and comp hotels, meals, FIMs whenever my flights have been disrupted).

VivoPerLei

I have to admit, this was kind of a fun exercise. I stopped when I hit the 40 or so below. I also took this one step further and sorted by best experience or memory to worst experience/memory, top to bottom. By far my pick for bottom of the barrel, hands down worst airline I've flown is Ryanair.

Like another poster, I also miss TWA. That was my preferred carrier in the '80s, even though I seem to recall their service being a little spotty.

JAL
Air New Zealand
Cathay Pacific
Qantas
Emirates
British Airways (glory days version only)
TWA
Eastern
Braniff
Turkish
TAP
Lufthansa
AirMalta
SAS
Icelandair
FinnAir
Air Seychelles
KLM
Gulf
United
Alaska
American
Southwest
Northwest
Delta
Air Canada
Continental
Horizon
America West
AirOne
Olympic
Spanair
Go
Easy Jet
Swiss Intl
Meridiana
Iberia
Midway - in the '80s they were always, always late out of MDW
SATA
Alitalia
USAir
Ryanair - nuff said

noiseboy

I could only manage 37, some of which are now defunct or merged.

My 2 favourites by far are ANZ and was TWA.

The loss of TWA was felt greatly by me as the customer service I had was second to none.

I also liked Pan Am but that was for the service from the cabin crew on Xmas eve flights in the early '70s

Worst has to be Ryanair followed by BOAC (48hrs from JNB - LHR)

Air NZ, ANZ
TWA, TWA

Not in any particular order!
Continental, COA
Alaska, ASA
BlueBird Aviation, BBZ
JAL, JAL
KLM, KLM
Delta, DAL
Air Canada, ACA
IcelandAir, ICE
Hawaiian Airlines, HAL
United, UAL
AA, AAL
EasyJet, EZY
Pan Am, PAA
NWA, NWA
BEA, BEA
BOAC,
British Airways, BAW
South African, SAA
SAS, SAS
Sabena, SAB
Brymon, BRY
Isles of Scilly Airbus, IOS
Air South West, WOW
Ryan Air, RYR
Lufthansa, DLH
Austrian, AUA
Finnair, FIN
Air France, AFR
Aer Lingus, EIN
Alitalia, AZA
TAP, TAP
Iberia, IBE
SwissAir, SWR
FlyBe, BEE
Virgin Atlantic, VIR
BMI, BMA

Noiseboy

supermasterphil

What are the three letter abbreviations supposed to mean?

I am not sure about some of them. In my understanding, the official abbreviation of Lufthansa is DLH (Deutsche Lufthansa)

supermasterphil

I just looked it up: apparently, I have been on 21 different airlines so far.

Sorted by number of flights:

Lufthansa
Germanwings
Varig
Continental Airlines
German Wings
dba
KLM
British Airways
TUIfly
Air Berlin
United Airways
Condor
Spainair
Southwest
Hapag Lloyd
Deutsche BA
Austrian
Pegasus Airlines
LTU
Onur Air
ATA Airlines Inc.

dustinp

Alright, so the plane could've been a maximum of 33 years old when I flew it. But then.... who wants to fly on a 30 year old DC-10 across the pacific?

VivoPerLei

Funny, but I'd rather fly TATL on a 30 year old DC-10 or L1011 than a 752 like some carriers do. Can we at least make it an MD11?

noiseboy

I have changed that, and thanks for pointing it out to me. Which ones are you not sure about?. I put the codes in because like some others who come here not all codes are recognised and it saves wandering off into the ether to find them.

This is where most of them were gleaned from, http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_airlines, the rest from Google search.

I am fallable like every one else, if any other errors are there please let me know.

Noiseboy

vtmike

Not sure about Tower Air. But I was on a chartered World Airlines flight for the military from IAD to FRA back in 97 when my father got stationed in Germany. Absolutely the worst flying experience in my life.

We are two hours in the flight and have to turn around and go back to IAD due some engine problems. We then proceed to sit on some remote tarmac at IAD in a fully packed DC 10 for 3+ hours with no AC in the middle of July.

They finally let us off the plane around 6PM and proceed to give the entire flight meal vouchers to the same restaurant (TGI Fridays I think). Needless to say the wait quickly grew to several hours at the restaurant. (We opted for Pizza Hut instead and paid out of pocket)

About 5 hours later (around 11:30) They finally announce we aren't going anywhere until the next day (duh!) and say they are going to put us up, but first we have to go out on the tarmac and take any luggage we need for that night.

So at about 2:30AM we can finally leave the airport, thinking we would be at the hotel pretty quickly, but where do we end up? A best western out in Springfield. (About a hour from the airport) We finally get to the hotel and check in around 3:30AM only to have to be up at 7AM to catch a bus back to the airport.

So that officially puts world airlines in a tie at the top of my list of dodgiest airline flown with ValuJet.

SURGEADDICT

Southwest, United, American, American eagle, SkyWest, ATA, America West, Continental, Republic, Western, KLM, and RenoAir.

777-100SP

I counted 41 + 15 commuter airlines (like American Eagle)

Kiwi Flyer

I don't think I input names of subsidiaries into flight memory to avoid this problem. Same with minor aircraft variations.

1k-all-the-way

I can think of these 31:

Aegean Airlines
Aeroflot Russian Airlines
Alitalia
All Nippon
Air Europa
Air France
American
Asiana
Bangkok Airways
British Airways
British Midland Airways (not flown them after they became bmi)
Continental
CSA Czech Airlines
Delta
Easyjet
Iberia
Japan Airlines
Jet
JetBlue
Lot Polish Airlines
Lufthansa (and Air Dolomiti)
Mandalay Air
Myanmar International Airlines
Olympic Airways/Airlines
People Express
Singapore Airlines
Swiss
Thai Airways
United
US Air
Yangon Air

Most worrisome? Myanmar Air

BearX220

Graraps, I'M shocked that so well-traveled an FTer can have racked up 40 carriers, and not a one of them US-origin. You don't know what you're missing.