I'm flying this airline to the UK at Christmas, cost me 105K Baht return for 3 of us, into Manchester and out of London, not too bad. Anyone have any comments on this airline, I hate flying and don't want it to crash, and it it does I want to be hammered so anyone know if they have loads of booze on board???

Cheers.

Their aircrews stay at the Fortune Hotel, so if you have a lousy flight you know where to go to kick the pilot's @ss.

Never had any problems with them - though I see others complain about their delays. No shortage of booze and nearly all the stewardesses seem to be from Ireland ........

I'm flying this airline to the UK at Christmas, cost me 105K Baht return for 3 of us, into Manchester and out of London, not too bad. Anyone have any comments on this airline, I hate flying and don't want it to crash, and it it does I want to be hammered so anyone know if they have loads of booze on board???

Cheers.

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THE worst of all to LOS.

very bad record of disgruntled customers.

last time i flew with GA it left late in both directions and broke down at the stopovers in the middle east in both directions.shambles when stuck in some middle eastern dump of a airport. no acccomodation or food to compensate.

filthy toilets due to ragheads crapping and pissing on the floor instead of using the bowl.

This airline is the pits. never again would i fly GA even if it was free.

there are far better options available. qatar is a better bet.

Also had bad somach cramps after eating the food on board.

Well it's tough shit I guess, just paid for the tickets, I flew with them from HK to BKK, seemed ok to me, had a Jack/Coke in my hand before take off.

I'm flying this airline to the UK at Christmas, cost me 105K Baht return for 3 of us, into Manchester and out of London, not too bad. Anyone have any comments on this airline, I hate flying and don't want it to crash, and it it does I want to be hammered so anyone know if they have loads of booze on board???

Cheers.

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friend of mine from ireland has been flying with them for some years, he's very happy.

guess it's about as good as emirates, especially if one hates the longhaul flights for 10/11 hours nonstop versus a nice stopover after 6 hours, with the possibility of doing some quality shopping at reasonable prices.

i have a vivid recollection of being stuck in the plane virtually all night as fitters stripped down the engine on the tarmac .eventually after many hours they asked the pax to get off so they rev up the engines to full chat.

afterwards many ragheads never got back on because they were too scared to continue to BKK.

one of theirplanes crashed into the sea at bharain some years back.

I just had a return trip to the Uk with Gulf Air , ok it was Buis class but it was one of my best Flights for years , Barain is also good for a bit of shopping . Recomended

I'm flying this airline to the UK at Christmas, cost me 105K Baht return for 3 of us, into Manchester and out of London, not too bad. Anyone have any comments on this airline, I hate flying and don't want it to crash, and it it does I want to be hammered so anyone know if they have loads of booze on board???

Cheers.

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THE worst of all to LOS.

very bad record of disgruntled customers.

last time i flew with GA it left late in both directions and broke down at the stopovers in the middle east in both directions.shambles when stuck in some middle eastern dump of a airport. no acccomodation or food to compensate.

filthy toilets due to ragheads crapping and pissing on the floor instead of using the bowl.

This airline is the pits. never again would i fly GA even if it was free.

there are far better options available. qatar is a better bet.

Also had bad somach cramps after eating the food on board.

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I have flown with Gulf Air many times when based in the middle east and when i moved to Thailand - always received excellent service and with children they are far better than Thai - who dont seem to have any idea how to deal with families.

As for the posters reference to Ragheads - there really is no need for that in this post is there? Yet another generalisation when you probably dont know what your talking about.

Flew to Uk via Bahrain 19/07/05, on time, (Except stacked up at Heathrow), seat pitch nothing special, in flight entertainment archaic (plane A340),service average, food good, booze sparse (bought three small bottles of wine with screw tops in Asda for return journey) 4 hour wait in Bahrain a bit of a killer.

On way back 23/08/05 via Abu Dhabi LHR ATC computer broke down, so sat in plane on tarmac for four hours, got some non alcoholic drinks, missed connection in Abu Dhabi, put up in good hotel with three meals and complementary 3 minute phone call, pretty good , but a bit chaotic actually getting to the hotel., then had to fly to Bahrain to pick up connection to Bangkok arriving 22 hours late , but LHR fault not Gulf Air.

Let down more by the UK service provision than Gulf Air (as is becoming more commonplace), had a proficient feel about it, would use again for the price.

Join frequent flyers club on web, get extra 10kgs luggage free, in practice this seems to mean 1 x 32 kg suitcase*do not exceed 32 kgs they made me take some out and put in already big hand luggage and a 10 kg piece of hand luggage.

Edited September 9, 200520 yr by spacebass

Several flights and no complaints about Gulf.

They often do have the cheapest fares to Europe from Asia so the back of the plane's often packed -- not an airline where you've got a great chance of getting an empty seat on each side to stretch out.

Also, you've often got to transit somewhere in the Gulf -- sometimes with long layovers -- and that can get tiring compared with a direct flight.

... I hate flying and don't want it to crash,...

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Are you trying to compete for the "post of the year" contest?

From Tokyo to BKK, there are 30 airlines that can take me there.

My choice is:

Singapore Airlines, started flying that route recently;

ANA, been in the 17G seat 18 times by now.

Fallback: Thai.

I would not consider Biman Bangaldesh, Air Lanka, NorthWest, United Airlines, no matter how much cheaper they might be.

Paying myself, no company to foot the bill.

Why would people fly the cheapest airline money can buy, even with the layovers and inconvenience? BKK is one flight from anywhere.

Gulf Air? Who was that?

Flew with them last year to London. No worries. Better than i thought. 26K return.

Flew with them last year to London. No worries. Better than i thought. 26K return.

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Great.

Sounds like an one-hop comfortable flight.