Aptorian, on Aug 12 2009, 08:22 PM, said:
Why on earth are you using a Slovakian airline company?
Do you like travelling with livestock and gypsies?
have your significant other recently set up a large life insurance in your name?
Well, to set this straight - I've been flying with SkyEurope pretty often in the past 2 years, and I was a very satisfied customers. They manage to combine extremely low prices with pretty good service (probably the reason they're bankrupt now...

)
Their service is way above the level of certain other budget airlines
("Dear passengers, welcome on board of Cheap Air. If you are ready for the take-off, start flapping your hands... now.") and their prices are hundreds and hundreds of Euros below the level of some flag carriers (
Me: WOT?!? How come I pay for a 2 hour flight from [insert a West European city here] to [insert an East European city here] for the same price that would take me to Japan and back?!? Them: Well, it's because we hold monopoly on these flight routes and enjoy benefits of protectionist policies and thus can demand whatever we like. And besides, with us you get better service. Me: WOT?!? The only thing I get extra on this flight is a cookie!!! Them: Well, but it's a damn good cookie! So shut up and eat you 400 Euro cookie!) And I mean this regardless of the home countries of these airlines (both the budget and the regular ones, and both West and East European ones).
The second point - why a Slovak airline? - is that due to proximity between Bratislava and Vienna, the Bratislava Airport has meanwhile practically become Vienna's second international airport. It is just 20 minutes more from where I live to the Bratislava Airport than to Vienna Airport (it takes me a bit over an hour to get to Bratislava by bus) and it has partially much better connections to smaller airports than Vienna does (e.g. direct flights to Manchester are possible only from Bratislava).
I'm flying pretty regularly with other airlines as well - AUA, Ryan Air, Easy Jet, Croatian Airlines, Lufthansa etc... and up to now apart from having to endure some painful "Babies on the Plane" horror episodes (for which the airlines can't really be blamed) I had pretty good experiences with all of them. But when it comes to friendly customer service, convenient flight times and flight routes and prices a travelling-freak like me can afford, I must say I'm a big fan of SkyEurope.
And livestock I have encountered only on some East European local busses...

But it wasn't so bad... they were more civilized and polite passengers than some humans are...
BUT: I'm still sitting on my booked tickets without knowing how things will develop...

And I'm not so much pissed off because of the money I might lose (although that WOULD hurt my purse badly) but - I WANT TO GO ON MY WELL DESERVED VACATION!!!
This post has been edited by Dag: 13 August 2009 - 07:23 AM