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This topic is sometimes raised in other forums so I thought I would ask members here for their views.
I'll start the ball rolling, though in all honesty, I don't have any airports, airlines or aircraft that I am passionate about over others.
Probably my favourite large airport is Amsterdam because of the ease of interlining, although its tendency to misplace baggage can be a downer, and the fact that everyone seems to speak English, often better than many native English speakers, I am ashamed to say.
Of the small airports, I fell in love with Inverness though I have only used it twice. Everyone seems so friendly and helpful.
Airports that I use most I would put in the medium-size bracket and they are Bristol, Newcastle, Glasgow and Edinburgh. I have no complaints about any of them though, at times like many airports worldwide, security can be rather slow.
As for airlines I still have a soft spot for the defunct Paramount Airways (the name lives on with an Indian airline, though not connected). They operated for a few years in the late 80s and early 90s with Bristol their operating base. They used four MD 83 aircraft, although one or two B 737s were acquired later on. They were the very first UK airline to ban smoking on board and, true to their conscience, would not sell tobacco products on board in the duty free rounds.
I am not a zealot when it comes to smoking. I don't smoke (never have so am not one of the enthusiastic 'reformed' smokers) but I don't seek to stop others so long as their habit doesn't affect me. When aircraft had smoking sections the smell inevitably drifted into the non-smoking areas and the recycled air on board made me wonder what I was breathing in.
Paramount was an intimate and friendly airline in my experience (I used them about eight times) and on more than one occasion the captain stood at the front of the passenger cabin to address the passengers via a microphone describing the forthcoming flight. It was a great pity the way they went out of business with recriminations about financial irregularities reverberating through the courts for a long time.
I suppose my current favourite airline is easyJet because it is now the airline I use most, although only for logistical reasons. By and large it is fine though not quite so chipper as Go which it absorbed.
As for aircraft, I don't really have a favourite although B 737s (of nearly all series) and B 757s are the aircraft I have flown in most.
I once had a glider lesson but the aircraft I have always wanted to fly in is the BN Trislander - the Flying Bomb in both sound and shape so far as I'm concerned. I tried to persuade my wife to fly from Guernsey to Jersey in one but she was not having it. I wished we had booked with Aurigny one day last year. The daily ATR 72 was replaced for some reason by TWO Trislanders that flew all the way from Guernsey to Bristol and back again.
Right, what favourites have others got?
I'll start the ball rolling, though in all honesty, I don't have any airports, airlines or aircraft that I am passionate about over others.
Probably my favourite large airport is Amsterdam because of the ease of interlining, although its tendency to misplace baggage can be a downer, and the fact that everyone seems to speak English, often better than many native English speakers, I am ashamed to say.
Of the small airports, I fell in love with Inverness though I have only used it twice. Everyone seems so friendly and helpful.
Airports that I use most I would put in the medium-size bracket and they are Bristol, Newcastle, Glasgow and Edinburgh. I have no complaints about any of them though, at times like many airports worldwide, security can be rather slow.
As for airlines I still have a soft spot for the defunct Paramount Airways (the name lives on with an Indian airline, though not connected). They operated for a few years in the late 80s and early 90s with Bristol their operating base. They used four MD 83 aircraft, although one or two B 737s were acquired later on. They were the very first UK airline to ban smoking on board and, true to their conscience, would not sell tobacco products on board in the duty free rounds.
I am not a zealot when it comes to smoking. I don't smoke (never have so am not one of the enthusiastic 'reformed' smokers) but I don't seek to stop others so long as their habit doesn't affect me. When aircraft had smoking sections the smell inevitably drifted into the non-smoking areas and the recycled air on board made me wonder what I was breathing in.
Paramount was an intimate and friendly airline in my experience (I used them about eight times) and on more than one occasion the captain stood at the front of the passenger cabin to address the passengers via a microphone describing the forthcoming flight. It was a great pity the way they went out of business with recriminations about financial irregularities reverberating through the courts for a long time.
I suppose my current favourite airline is easyJet because it is now the airline I use most, although only for logistical reasons. By and large it is fine though not quite so chipper as Go which it absorbed.
As for aircraft, I don't really have a favourite although B 737s (of nearly all series) and B 757s are the aircraft I have flown in most.
I once had a glider lesson but the aircraft I have always wanted to fly in is the BN Trislander - the Flying Bomb in both sound and shape so far as I'm concerned. I tried to persuade my wife to fly from Guernsey to Jersey in one but she was not having it. I wished we had booked with Aurigny one day last year. The daily ATR 72 was replaced for some reason by TWO Trislanders that flew all the way from Guernsey to Bristol and back again.
Right, what favourites have others got?