America west airlines

[silkyslim]

Round trip from chicago to vegas $250 for Nov 4-7th. Ive never flown this airline before. Does anyone know if this is any good or if there are cheaper airlines?

[DrSavage]

It's the worst airline I've ever been on. Probably the cheapest one though. Expect the worst.

[pudley4]

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It's the worst airline I've ever been on. Probably the cheapest one though. Expect the worst.

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We had a couple of dozen people heading out to California a few years ago. We all flew AW from different parts of the country, all at different times throughout a 2-day period. Every single one of our flights was delayed several hours (no weather problems, no other airlines had major delays at the time)

On our return flight, they postponed our 10:00 am flight and made us all switch to the 3:00 pm flight due to "weather problems" (storms) in Phoenix. We got to Phoenix to change planes and found out they hadn't had rain in several days [img]/images/graemlins/confused.gif[/img] [img]/images/graemlins/confused.gif[/img] [img]/images/graemlins/confused.gif[/img]

[highlife]

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It's the worst airline I've ever been on. Probably the cheapest one though. Expect the worst.

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last year i was flying AW back from vegas to philly. in our stopover in Salt Lake, our flight was delayed 7 hours because they didn't have a pilot or crew for the plane. wow.

Used fly them more often. Las Vegas is a hub for them. I did get stranded once on the runway for over a hour with a packed plane and no AC. "They had to restart the engines" Not very comforting but it was a fine boring flight after that.

[DrSavage]

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Used fly them more often. Las Vegas is a hub for them. I did get stranded once on the runway for over a hour with a packed plane and no AC. "They had to restart the engines" Not very comforting but it was a fine boring flight after that.

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My experiences include :
1) Cancelled flight, had to stand for 4 hours in line after that to get reassigned to a flight 2 days after
2) all flights badly delayed
3) Plane gets to the runway, pilot announces that they don't have enough fuel to get to new york, plane goes back to terminal to refill
4) Ran out of food by row 10
5) very little space
6) etc

I highly recommend paying like $50 more and flying JetBlue instead.

[Toro]

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I highly recommend paying like $50 more and flying JetBlue instead.

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I just checked out jet Blue flights and they do have a non stop to LV. Please tell me the pluses of this airline. I've heard good things but not speciics.

[DrSavage]

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I highly recommend paying like $50 more and flying JetBlue instead.

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I just checked out jet Blue flights and they do have a non stop to LV. Please tell me the pluses of this airline. I've heard good things but not speciics.

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1) Always great service
2) No first class, everyone gets plenty of space and the same treatment.
3) Satellite TV on board, lots of channels, choice of movies to watch on a personal screen.
4) Never had a single issue

[jba]

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I just checked out jet Blue flights and they do have a non stop to LV. Please tell me the pluses of this airline. I've heard good things but not speciics.

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satellite tv and spacious leather seats. they are the best ride until someone can provide good wifi.

[Toro]

Thanks for the info. I just checked out the fares for some dates in February that I'm interested and Jetblue was actually cheaper than America West. I'm going to give them a try next booking.