didds wrote:BA were pretty poor back in the very early 90s. I used to fly FRA-LON-FRA quite a bit as I lived in (initially West) Germany at the time. The quality of service from Lufthansa was immensely superior, for the same price.
didds
I lived most of the '90s in central Italy.
Two airlines above all other to avoid were BA and Alitalia. Today's low-cost airlines weren't an option. I think the best experience was Monarch, and I'd take the likes of Britannia, or Meridiana (a smaller Italian lot whose name I may or may not have remembered correctly) or Debonair (a new player that went rapidly from quite impressive to quite tatty to no longer there) ahead of the dreadful dinosaurs.
The last time I travelled on BA[1], I turned up at Gatwick, where I couldn't find my mid-morning flight to Rome. Stood in a dreadful huge queue to ask about it, and was treated very rudely by BA staff. After about three long queues, found someone who knew what was going on: the flight had been cancelled. They'd booked me on to another flight, from Heathrow (and of course they weren't paying for travel Gatwick-Heathrow) to a different Rome airport. By the time I arrived there, I was too late for the last bus back home from Rome!
[1] I had failed to get Monarch, because their flights were 100% full.
