Air India question

My spouse and I are planning a trip to London (we live in New York
City) and were looking at prices for Air India tickets. I've read a
lot of bad reviews for this airline, but they've all been for flights
to or from India.

Has anyone taken this airline to England? What is your opinion of
it?. The tickets are very inexpensive, compared to the other
airlines, and we understand it wouldn't be as acommodating as the
competitors. Would it be worth saving the money?


TIA

On Mon, 14 Apr 2008 08:15:09 -0700 (PDT),
wrote:

My spouse and I are planning a trip to London (we live in New York
City) and were looking at prices for Air India tickets. I've read a
lot of bad reviews for this airline, but they've all been for flights
to or from India.

Has anyone taken this airline to England? What is your opinion of
it?. The tickets are very inexpensive, compared to the other
airlines, and we understand it wouldn't be as acommodating as the
competitors. Would it be worth saving the money?

AI's flights to LHR are ongoing flights to India, so I wouldn't expect
much difference from the reviews you have read about them. If you
haven't, you can see a lot of reviews here and decide for yourself if
it is worth the savings. http://www.airlinequality.com/

Whether it's worth it or not is up to you. There's a reason tickets
are cheaper after all.

On Apr 14, 12:06*pm, (John Kulp) wrote:
On Mon, 14 Apr 2008 08:15:09 -0700 (PDT),
wrote:

My spouse and I are planning a trip to London (we live in New York
City) and were looking at prices for Air India tickets. *I've read a
lot of bad reviews for this airline, but they've all been for flights
to or from India.

Has anyone taken this airline to England? *What is your opinion of
it?. *The tickets are very inexpensive, compared to the other
airlines, and we understand it wouldn't be as acommodating as the
competitors. *Would it be worth saving the money?

AI's flights to LHR are ongoing flights to India, so I wouldn't expect
much difference from the reviews you have read about them. *If you
haven't, you can see a lot of reviews here and decide for yourself if
it is worth the savings.http://www.airlinequality.com/

Whether it's worth it or not is up to you. *There's a reason tickets
are cheaper after all.

It didn't occur to me that they were the same planes. I just assumed
that Air India might have some 'local flights. Thanks.

wrote:

AI has good safety record. Their cabin service is not bad; most
trans-atlantic service is ho-hum anyway, any differences would be
minor. You can pay more and still get lousy service.

Where AI doesn't shine is in response to "irregular ops". Bags missing,
connection missed etc., would be dealt more smoothly by many others.
HOWEVER, NYC to LON being a nonstop flight (which I have taken on many
airlines including AI), they won't have any opportunity to mess
anything up. Anyway, British Airways is king of lost bags these days.


I'd say take AI, save money. On AI, families tend to outnumber dashing
businessmen, so allow extra time to board at both ends.