State of the Airlines

Yeah, I'm a world perks member, but that's only a legacy issue. My parents were members and I did a lot of traveling with them so I eventually became a member. Now it's a fucking nightmare. I have about 500,000 miles accrued, but I never wanted to fly Northwest. The three worst airlines I've ever flown are Northwest, Delta, and China Airlines. I don't even know if I can classify my puddle hop on China Airlines with the completely devastating experience of flying internationally on NWA.

I took a trip from Shanghai to Beijing once on China Air and it dawned on me that half the people on the flight had never flown before. I mean, let's face it, half the quality of any flight is determined by the quality of the people sitting around you. Every time you get on an airplane, you end up praying that the person or people next to you (if you're unfortunate enough to get a middle seat) are either a hot or interesting. On my China Air flight, people were actually removing luggage from the overhead bins because they thought that it was their own personal space and throwing said luggage onto the floor, it was chaos. The flight was short and the only other issue was everyone standing up as soon as we touched down. I've seen that happen before, but the only difference was that the flight attendants didn't say a word.

I've flown several domestic flights on Delta and they were all late. There was no concept of service, it wasn't comfortable, it just sucked. That's all I have to say about it.

Out of all my flights back and forth to Asia on Northwest, I've only had one good one. Let's start with a typical example. Once you get on in Tokyo, you have the US flight crew, and that typically consist of 50 year old, fat flight attendants that bump you with their fat asses as they walk down the aisle. They speak to all the old Asians in a very S-L-O-W, but excruciatingly loud voice, and yell at them if they don't understand.

On one particular flight, I had the dubious honor of sitting next to an old American couple. They were both extremely backwards, racist, and obnoxious. The entire time, the (I'll say abusive) husband was drinking and yelling at flight attendant to get him more booze, as the wife was cheering him on. When he wasn't yelling at the flight attendant and calling them bitches, he was yelling at his wife. This lady wouldn't shut up. She kept drinking as well. I was sitting directly next to her as she was dropping her shit and spilling her drinks on me.

Oh the good one...sat next to a girl from Hong Kong named Kiri, was oblivious to any glitches in service...