airline opinion

[rm]

Frontier Airlines -- yay or nay?

Are they on time?
Is their customer service tolerable if shit goes wrong?
How onerous is the stopping in Wisconsin on the way to the West Coast?
Newer planes or other airlines' cast-offs repainted? (um, yeah, I care -- it has to do with the pressurization and my sinuses; newer planes mean less in-flight pain for me).

It's like a $200 difference on a trip for Patty and I, so I care, but if it's going to be hell, I'll just spend the money (I won't, for example, fly Spirit for cost savings).

Comments

[4hour-ramona.livejournal.com]

what's wrong with wisconsin?

[rm.livejournal.com]

Out of the way for SF, not something I'm used to dealing with as a hub (usually it's Chicago or Atlanta).

[4hour-ramona.livejournal.com]

i'm just wondering what exactly the concern is - weather, internet connectivity, frat boys, what to do during the layover. i can speak to 3 of those.

it might not be out of the way at all, depending on the city you'll be flying into; milwaukee is about the same latitude as sf, madison and eau claire are even closer.

[rm.livejournal.com]

Honestly, and this is more of my weird -- my experience (which make be fluke, of course) is that there are certain flight routes that always have a FUCKTON of turbulence and make me really edgy (cross the Atlantic is almost never bad in my experience; crossing the Rockies is usually awful for about 30 minutes; the one flight I took to and from Minnesota SCARED THE SHIT OUT OF ME and the flight attendant was like "this route is just always really bumpy") so my super secret concern is whether it's one of those things that will likely provide me with more turbulence that I've come to expect from direct flights to the West Coast, which in my experience usually only bad for small parts of the trip (the exception being the horrifying flight to LA when I was on my to Australia, but all my other flights cross country (probably at least 2 dozen) have been unremarkable)).

Anyway, all of which seems SUPER NEUROTIC. And is.

[4hour-ramona.livejournal.com]

i can totally understand that - i used to fly nodak to ohio a lot and it was always turbulent, no matter what time of year or which flightpath we took.

i shake my fist at the jet stream.

[magentamn.livejournal.com]

I don't know why a flight attendant would say that flights in or out of Minneapolis would be "always really bumpy". It can be rough if there is a bad storm at the time, but it's at ground level with no hills or mountains nearby. I fly in and out of here and rarely have problems on this end, other than interminable de-icing in the winter.