Americas 10 worst Airlines!

[elag777]

http://www.forbes.com/2007/09/26/ai...tics-cx_rm_tvr_0927worstairlines_slide_2.html

The board has been a tad on the uninteresting side for a while....what are the thoughts on this list?

 

[B727Driver]

10 worst on customer side of the issue, what about labor? I guess the general public doesn't care about that.

 

[Furloughed80]

Good to see that CAL is NOT on that list.

 

[flatspin7]

Every time I hit that button I was thinking "Please not us... not us"

This may be of little interest but I heard yesterday that CAL is running at a 89.5% on time rating which is simply unheard of! The Weather and Flow control Gods are smiling on us! I guess its a little break between last summers torture and the impending Blizzard this winter.

 

[Big Slick]

So what?

If Joe Q. Public can save $5.00 on a fare, he will fly any airline. Brand loyalty is long gone.

Besides, now-a-days they all suck. You get what you pay for, Mr. Redneck Trailer Trash.

 

[B727Driver]

Big Slick.....well said.

 

[bluefly72]

Guess who's number one...AKA worst

 

[FlyingSig]

Mesa ranks higher then USAir and American... now that's funny.

 

[Phaedrus]

I guess the general public doesn't care about that.

Why would they?

 

[Jetjockey]

They would ship themselves FedEx if it saved them money and it were legal. Oh snap!!! I just may have opened Pandora's box.

 

[JAM-BRO]

Guess who's number one...AKA worst

What????????

 

[Ih8AFYesmen]

Alaska is #10??? Funny..... Alaska's always been #6 in everything.

 

[Grandpa +65]

weird, i fly American and USairways and 10 out 9 are on-time. Great services.
****and I do not work for them****

 

[ivauir]

Delta Air Lines

On-time performance: 75% (fifth worst)
Baggage mishandling: 6.6 per 1,000 passengers (eighth)
Cancellations: 1.5% (13th)

And they don't even serve LBB or MAF

 

[xkuzme1]

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CAL was not on the list. Expressjet was. CAL controls all of XJT's slots at EWR. CAL does a good job of making it look like they are never delayed. It is all a game of times and numbers. All most all the the busiest time slots with the longest delays are section and scheduled for XJT.

X

 

[:-)]

CAL was not on the list. Expressjet was. CAL controls all of XJT's slots at EWR. CAL does a good job of making it look like they are never delayed. It is all a game of times and numbers. All most all the the busiest time slots with the longest delays are section and scheduled for XJT.

X

All it takes to be number one in on time perf., is to build alot of sit time into the airplanes schedule. It costs money, but it makes it easy to say "We're #1"

CAL, bless em, is famous for this.

 

[igneousy2]

The thing that jumped out at me was that most of these (sans EJ) are how unhappy the work groups either are - or have been recently.

1. ASA - bitter dispute with new parent company SkyWest

2. ComAir - Recent crash - fate uncertain - DAL shopping for buyer.

3. AE - It's an AMR company - of course the employees are unhappy.

4. Mesa - is anyone really surprised they are on this list?

5. Express Jet - I'm a little surprised - I am sure CAL would rather delay/cx one of these flights then a mainline flight.

6. US Air - East pilots are PO'd - how much effort do you think they are making to make sure there flights leave on time?

7. AA - Again, no surprise that an AMR company has unhappy employees.

8. UA - Work groups took a beating in the last BK. From what I can tell from riding on the JS (not much) morale seems really low.

9. DAL - BK took a toll on morale - maybe they will be off the list next time if things continue to improve

10. AS - again bitter employees. Locked out ramp agents, bitter contract talks with pilots.

I don't think it's a coincidence that the groups that have generally happier employees (Southwest, Frontier, JetBlue, SkyWest, CAL) are missing from the list.

For me, the only surprises are the inclusion of Express Jet and the exclusion of Northwest or any of their express carriers.

Laters

 

[rigger]

I think expressjet made the list for the branded flying"Expressjet" not the Cal flying Expressjet. If you look at the picture it was a branded plane.

 

[Occam's Razor]

We're discussing this?

Why?

Forbes is trying to sell magazines and advertising. Period.

The people who might want to buy their magazine are not the top tier "captains of industry"...they are the people who are the middle-management toads or corner office wannabes who spend a good portion of their lives

a) Trying to get out of that @#$% cubicle!
b) Directly experiencing air travel.

The topic is a lure. It's an invented list designed to get road warriors to buy the magazine and buy the crap advertised on the same pages as that invented list.

 

[jetexas]

Until they start addressing the real issues and realizing what is really going on in the industry then I hold no creedance to these types of articles. I treat them for what they are...sensationalist whining. USAtoday, national news, Forbes, etc. haven't a clue. They don't want to know.

 

[SuperFLUF]

This seems to be nothing but some hack at Forbes posting a list based on statistics. On time, baggage, cancellations.....

Its not a complete look at these airlines and how they really rank in the customer's view. (That IS what counts)

Of course small jet operators are at the top. When the weather goes down they are always cancelled first and are more often held for connectors......etc.

 

[Alchemy]

I think expressjet made the list for the branded flying"Expressjet" not the Cal flying Expressjet. If you look at the picture it was a branded plane.

Highly unlikely. They made the list because of EWR.

 

[steveg]

Sweet,

I have worked for 3 of the airlines on that list.

Man that is depressing.

Anyone else top that? I'm sure a few of you?