rach 1 Posted April 3, 2008 Share Posted April 3, 2008 OK so I'm looking into flights back to the UK this summer. Seems KLM are cheaper than BA this year. Hurray! KLM decent? Link to post Share on other sites
brit-gob 9 Posted April 3, 2008 Share Posted April 3, 2008 I went with KLM once and I think they were ok. That'll be via Amsterdam, right? Don't you want to see Terminal 5 at Heathrow!? Think of it this way, they are surely better than BA! Link to post Share on other sites
Tubby Beaver 209 Posted April 4, 2008 Share Posted April 4, 2008 check out Lufthansa's website as they sometimes have cheaper prices when you book direct. Also I have flown with the 2 Korean airlines back to the UK, decent enough with a stopover in Seoul and right into Heathrow, they were cheaper when booking from this end. (Korean Air and Asiana) Link to post Share on other sites
big-will 7 Posted April 4, 2008 Share Posted April 4, 2008 KLM were fine when I used them. All pretty similar if you ask me, in cattle class anyway. Link to post Share on other sites
scouser 4 Posted April 4, 2008 Share Posted April 4, 2008 Interesting that BA are usually the cheapest. Must get on the case myself actually. Link to post Share on other sites
farquah 0 Posted April 4, 2008 Share Posted April 4, 2008 I think the best flight I have had back to UK is still with Virgin. Great service, decent seats and great inflight entertainment. Worst has got to be Aeroflot- Delayed for an age, stale bread food, inflight film was some kind of old cinema version of a Chekov play, and the female flight attendants must have been ex russian shot put champions and I swear I caught one of them shaving her "beard" in the toilet!! Link to post Share on other sites
Tubby Beaver 209 Posted April 4, 2008 Share Posted April 4, 2008 Definietly Farquah, Virgin was a quality flight home, good in-flight entertainment, comfortable seats, attentive flight attendants. Unlike BA whose seats were squashed, plane was old, entertainment was stone age and the flight attendants were surly!! Link to post Share on other sites
thursday 1 Posted April 5, 2008 Share Posted April 5, 2008 I totally disagree. Virgin are monkey spankers. At launch, they employed ex-BA fat slags to oversea the oriental crew. The aisles were made wider so the fat slags could push the trolleys through. So what about the cattle in coach? Sod them; they can catch a plentiful cheek from the dam busters. All very depressing. But good news for Virgin; they will never see my custom ever again. Link to post Share on other sites
thursday 1 Posted April 5, 2008 Share Posted April 5, 2008 And BA? I just dun wanna start on them. They have enough on their plate: Bitten off more than they can chew. And they can chew... alot. How else do they get to employ 200lbs waitresses qualified only to push coctail trolleys and jumbo jets when visibility is low. Link to post Share on other sites
grungy-gonads 54 Posted April 5, 2008 Share Posted April 5, 2008 I get the impression that thursday does not like BA. I could be wrong. Link to post Share on other sites
brit-gob 9 Posted April 6, 2008 Share Posted April 6, 2008 It would be very hard to actually like them! Link to post Share on other sites
rach 1 Posted April 6, 2008 Author Share Posted April 6, 2008 I think I'm going with KLM. Virgin were a fair bit more expensive. Link to post Share on other sites
pie-eater 207 Posted April 7, 2008 Share Posted April 7, 2008 I would fly Virgin etc, but the problem is I want to get to Manchester. Virgin don't do that, so it ends up requiring considerably more cash. The choices are BA, or people like KLM via Amsterdam or some other European carrier like that. Seems it will be KLM for me as well then. Link to post Share on other sites
snowbender 3 Posted April 7, 2008 Share Posted April 7, 2008 I wonder, will the excessive fuel charges on flights go down now that gas is cheaper? (Yeah, right!) Link to post Share on other sites
NoFakie 45 Posted April 7, 2008 Share Posted April 7, 2008 Crude is still near record prices. Gasoline and diesel have come down due to a change in Japanese road tax. Kero hasn't changed. Can those of you who've bought flights in Japan give us some actual numbers for flight costs with everything included? Its easy enough to find prices without all the taxes, but its just false advertising. Link to post Share on other sites
pie-eater 207 Posted April 7, 2008 Share Posted April 7, 2008 End of July, Tokyo > Manchester, KLM, just slighly over 200,000 yen all included. Link to post Share on other sites
Tubby Beaver 209 Posted April 7, 2008 Share Posted April 7, 2008 shit, thats pricey, although it is summer Link to post Share on other sites
muikabochi 208 Posted April 8, 2008 Share Posted April 8, 2008 Thats pretty much what it is every year (including all those lovely taxes) at that time of the year. Link to post Share on other sites
rach 1 Posted April 8, 2008 Author Share Posted April 8, 2008 The last few years it has always been around 20 man for me as well give or take a bit. I think the rates go up to that level aroud 24th July and are like through early August (?) Link to post Share on other sites
thursday 1 Posted April 8, 2008 Share Posted April 8, 2008 I'll be in sunny England in June. REALLY looking forward to Heathrow. NOT!!! Link to post Share on other sites
Tubby Beaver 209 Posted April 8, 2008 Share Posted April 8, 2008 haha. I'm not going home until Xmas, it'll be just as expensive then I guess as well. Link to post Share on other sites
rach 1 Posted April 8, 2008 Author Share Posted April 8, 2008 I think it is, maybe slightly less. Of course when I say 200,000 - the actual ticket is around 150,000 then you've got all the silly stuff to add on. Link to post Share on other sites
Tubby Beaver 209 Posted April 8, 2008 Share Posted April 8, 2008 yeah i guess. Either way I'd rather go home this Xmas, Xmas over here is crap. Link to post Share on other sites
guzzlers-baps 0 Posted April 9, 2008 Share Posted April 9, 2008 The actual flights have got cheaper I think. Unfortunately, all those additions make the price about the same if not slightly higher. Link to post Share on other sites
scouser 4 Posted April 10, 2008 Share Posted April 10, 2008 Got mine booked, I'm going via Copenhagen. It's about the same cost. Link to post Share on other sites
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