America west airlines

silkyslim · #1 09-12-2005, 01:10 PM

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 · #2 09-12-2005, 01:14 PM

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

#3 09-12-2005, 01:15 PM

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.

StevieG · #4 09-12-2005, 01:16 PM

I fly America West often and I give them a passing grade, but not a high grade. That's a decent fare, probably well worth it.

mrbaseball · #5 09-12-2005, 01:16 PM

It's generally the cheapest for Chi/LV

silkyslim · #6 09-12-2005, 01:24 PM

ok, airfare: cHeck
LOdging: dont want to have to take a cab to the strip, what is the cheapest hotel/motel, what websites can i search for this info?

BoogerFace · #7 09-12-2005, 01:32 PM

Cheapo Vegas

The IP is center strip and cheap. It's fine if you're not going to spend a lot of time in the room.

highlife · #8 09-12-2005, 01:37 PM

go the Boardwalk, its right next to bellagio. they have a terrible casino and terrible food, but the rooms are clean and cheapest on the middle of the strip.

pudley4 · #9 09-12-2005, 01:39 PM

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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]

DrSavage · #10 09-12-2005, 01:43 PM

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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.