Going to different countries and cities can be quite time consuming, especially if you need to check for connecting flights. Gone are the days when you need to go to airline offices, travel agencies or make thousands of calls just to book your flight. With the Internet, you can now make your reservations online. In fact, there are various airline companies with marked excellence when it comes to providing the best services. We discuss a few of them here.
KLM Royal Dutch Airlines
This is the national airline of the Netherlands. It was founded in 1919. Through the years, KLM has offered both domestic and international flights. It caters to passengers and cargo flights to more than 90 destinations including Europe, Middle East, Asia, North and South America, Africa and Dubai.
It has made an alliance with two other airlines, Boeing and Northwest Airlines. In 2003, there was the merging of Air France and KLM. This airline shares it social and environmental responsibilities by reducing the amount of Carbon Dioxide produced by the aircraft while investing on projects that aims to eliminate such emissions. This airline offers Business class and economy class on their flights.
Their World business class aircraft features 170-degree angle lie-flat seats, laptop power ports, massage functions, audio and video TVs along with email or text messaging services and privacy canopies. All seats have reading lamps, personal phones and footrests. They also offer snacks, beverages and a three-course meal.
Economy class, on the other hand, has text and email messaging functions, personal telephones and a personal audio video TV. Passengers are served with complimentary sandwiches, hot meals and drinks, with an exception for champagne.
US Airways, Inc
This was previously named USAir. In 2005, it merged with America West and used the name US Airways. This airline services 30 countries and operates 3,512 daily flights to 231 destinations including the Caribbean, Europe, Central America, North America and Hawaii. Being the fifth largest airline in the US, it features jet aircrafts, regional jets and turbo-prop aircrafts.
US Airways offer Envoy class, Domestic First class and Economy class on their flights. Envoy class has video screens that offer movies, games and TV shows. They are featured in multiple languages. In some aircraft, there is also a provision for lie-flat seats and leg rooms. They offer free food and beverages.
Domestic first class offers free beverages, snack and nuts. If the flight is longer than 3.5 hours, passengers are given a complete meal. The Economy class is available in all aircrafts and features personal video screens which include movies and games that are translated in different languages. Meals, snacks and beverages are available for purchase.
Japan Airlines (JAL)
This is amongst the largest airline operators in Asia and was established in the year 1951. At the time of its merge with Japan Air System, they were considered as the 6th largest in the world, based on the number of passengers carried. They even ranked third as per revenue.
It has served a number of air flights in Asia, Oceania, America and Europe. International flights feature First class with fully flat Skysleepr Solos, Executive class with Seasons Shell Flat Seats and the Economy class. For Executive and First classes, all seats are wider having a center console that is expanded.
This airline provides an entertainment system called MAGIC. It features phones, destination guides, games and movies. MAGIC also has catalogue for the passengers? shopping needs via duty-free. All aircrafts have in-flight magazines.
Aside from JAL's international airlines, it also caters flights for food and catering businesses, freight services as well as low-yield flights going to most resorts of Hawaii and Southeast Asia. JAL owns six domestic airlines that have been added to its mainline. These destinations include Hokkaido, Tokyo, Nagoya, Osaka, Ryukyu Islands and Western Japan.
Ozzy Flying High Again
Let’s face it – while commercial air carriers are more economical from a standpoint of financial cost, if you are in a field in which time equals money, chances are you won’t come out ahead by taking a scheduled commercial flight. Commercial flights operate on their own schedules, and are confined to certain routes that may require that you fly to destinations that are out of the way and actually change planes – increasing the chance that luggage will be misdirected, or even lost.
This is just once you get onboard. If you have had any experience flying commercially in the past five years, you know about the endless lines, the strip-searches, the check-in lines...all of which add up to wasted time that might better have been spent preparing for that all-important presentation or business meeting.
Even once you’re on board and in your seat, is it possible to get any sort of meaningful work in a typical airline seat? It’s doubtful. Today, you are crammed into a noisy, cramped cabin with anywhere from 100 to 350 other chattering, fidgeting passengers – and even first class or business class is no panacea.
This brings us to the subject of comfort. Commercial airlines typically operate on a narrow profit margin, therefore, it is in their interest to pack as many people on each flight as possible. Small wonder that reports of passenger rudeness and even violent behavior has increased in recent years. It’s not only uncomfortable, it’s unhealthy. How many of your fellow passengers are ill with bronchitis, the common cold, or worse? In addition, water systems in commercial airliners often contain bacteria, since these systems are not always flushed out regularly. Would you really want a drink with ice cubes made from that water?
With a privately chartered flight, you not only travel in greater comfort, you are in greater control. Many charter companies can have an aircraft ready to take you anywhere in the world with as little as four hours’ advance notice – and that means anywhere. Charter flights can take off and land from virtually any runway in the world, whereas commercial airlines are confined to about 500, internationally. Depending on your flight budget, you can charter a small piston-engine plane that can take you up to 1,300 miles in about three hours quite economically, or hire a private jet that can take up to 14 people in comfort to any destination within a 4,300 mile radius in less than eight hours – no lines, no changing planes, no lost luggage – and no headaches.
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