Your worst flight

[LH 340-600]

Did you ever think your plane wouldn't reach the airport?

My worst flight was from Kreta back toStuttgart. Our plane was a Fokker 70 from a small Greek airline. I was sitting in the back of the aircraft on the right side. The engines didn't sound very well. After a hour or so in flight the right engine seemed to be switched off for a few seconds, but started working "normaly" again. Someone on the flight said that there might be a problems with the fuel-pumps.
The flight was horrible and ever since I don't feel that comfortable on planes anymore. I'm not scarred of flying, but I'm happy when the plane lands safely.

[AEagle40]

My worst flight has to have been an AirTran flight from MLI to ATL on an MLI-FLL trip. It must have been some children deal going on in ATL, because there were about 25 children under 10. I wish that they could have been tranquilized. First came screaming because their ears hurt when we took off and some were scared of the DC-9's engines. After the Fasten Seatbelt Sign was off, about 6-8 at a time were runnign in the aisle. Then there was whining because some were hungry and some were scared and on and on. The FA's were hardly able to keep any sort of order. Not even my window seat and CD player could keep my mind off of them. I was so glad when we landed. That has been my worst flight.

[a78jumper]

Both flights I took with this useless excuse of an airline, now thankfully defunct, were horrible. Both were charters for National Defence.

The first was in Sep 87 from Vancouver to Trenton, Ontario with stops in Edmonton, Winnipeg and Ottawa en route-the Forces "milk run". The aircraft was a DC-8-61 configured for 250 seats, which was chartered at the last minute to replace the Air Force 707 that normally flew the route, thus there were another 80 seats available at the last minute and my Air Canada reservation was cancelled due to an overly efficient clerk somewhere. There was a slight delay leaving Vancouver because the first aircraft hit a goose inbound and was grounded, thus we had to wait while they flew in a replacement from Montreal, which took all day, so we ended up flying all night. What a dumpy, filthy aircraft, it vibrated something wicked on takeoff, and I was not surprised to hear one crashed on takeoff flying a Haj flight a couple of years later when the Captain retracted burning tires into the wing and lit it afire killing all 259 aboard.

The second time around, Aug 92, was a 757-200 from Lahr, Germany (near Strasbourg, France) to Ottawa, non stop. Trust me eight hours on a 757 seating 228 is not fun and I am 5'5". For a less than ten year old aircraft, this was the pits, even dirtier than the first time, and the flight attendants were even wearing dirty uniforms. To top it off I was in considerable pain having injured my neck parachuting, before leaving Canada. The only positive thing was that we made the 3900 miles or thereabouts westbound without a stop to refuel, which we had been warned might happen depending on the headwinds, which would have prolonged the misery even further.

NationAir went belly up the following year, and is not missed.

[mikecweb]

I have been on a couple "unusual flights" but I wouldn't consider them bad because any flight in my opinion is an awesome experience. Anyways here goes.
The first time was on a Comair CRJ-200 out of Cincinnati. The aircraft was the special 100th CRJ paint job with the flag and stars on it. What happened was when we started down the runway the plane just did not seem to pick up that extra bit of speed and the pilot raised the nose and quickly slammed it down with full thrust reversers and spoilers deployed. The plane over ran the threshold and on to the displaced part. The crew got on later and said that the aircraft was not properly configured for take-off. So as an end result we waited an hour to get another plane and continue on to Bangor Maine.
My second odd experience was on another CRJ to from Cincinnati to Bangor. It was July 3 because I remember some of the smaller Maine towns had their fireworks going off. We encountered a severe thunderstorm which was surrounding Bangor and blocked are decent. So the pilot got on and said "I think we got an idea on how to get through this". What his idea was to keep at cruising altitude till over Bangor. Then we did a STEEP spiraling decent over the airport and all we could see was lightning around us. Worst turbulence I have ever had in my life.
Even with these two flights the CRJ is still my favorite airliner. Call me crazy but they just do something for me.

[yul_airplane_freak]

My worst flight I think was in 1997 on Air Transat flight 151 from Rome Ciampino to Montreal Mirabel via Paris. We took off from CIA on a hot sunny day for a short flight to CDG. The reason we were landing in CDG was to fuel up and then head direct to YMX. Once we landed in CDG the pilot said we would stay for 45 min. and then be on our way. Once the engines went off it really started to get hot in the plane!! after 30 min. everyone was fanning themselves and one old woman fainted! She was taken off the plane and checked out. 45 min later the pilot came on and said we were having a mechanical problem so we stayed another 30 min!! It was the worst feeling ever! Finally we taxiied out and took off. 6 hours later as we were approaching the canadian coastline the pilot came on and said we would have to land in Gander to fuel up! I was hoping it was a joke but I saw us getting closer to the ground and we touched down in Gander. Luckily it was cooler and we didn't stay that long! When we landed in YMX the passangers started clapping and we all felt relieved to be home. I must say that was the worst flight of my life.

[a78jumper]

YUL.....must have been one of their 757s? I have never flown Air TransAt but their reputation is not very good formany reasons. My parents flew back from Paris to Toronto with them and they had to stop in Moncton, NB of all places to drop off pax. For the money saved over a scheduled airline it is not worth it, unless the regulars do not fly there direct, eg many sun destinations.

This is the same airline with ten across seating in their 1011s, and nine across in their 330s. If there was a way to squeeze in seven across on a 757 they would do that too.

[Richard]

Worst flight as I said in the aviation forum, a Saudia L1011 in 1998. I can't remember if the seating layout was 9 or 10-abreast. Anyway, it as a crammed flight. The plane was of early 70s vintage and the entire flight was bumpy. I wanted to sleep to help the time go by quicker but the uncomfortable chair and constant turbulence hindered that. At least it was a brief domestic run. Imagine the poor souls who must ride one of those piles of tin up to Europe. Ehhh. Oh boy, you shoulda seen the plane on the outside. It was about as clean as an Air France A340 :wink: .

[Richard]

I also remember back when I lived in Brussels some of the Sabena flights were pretty horrible too. Namely the old 732s on intra-european routes. The PW engines were unbelievably loud and there was a constant smell of jet fuel. To some that may be nice, but to me it gave me a splitting headache. Well, born in '85 I guess I'm used to modern jets. Come to think of it, none of my trips on Sabena have been special. I can't say I was sad to see them go under in October 2001.

Would you believe it, I've never hitherto posted in this forum.

[yul_airplane_freak]

hey a78jumper! actually we flew on the L1011. Thank god it wasn't the 757! My parents took the Air Transat 757 to St-Maarten and they felt like sardines in there!

[Lance]

United Airlines flight #178 on Decemember 28th, 1978. Denver (DEN) to Portland, OR (PDX). That DC-8-62 run out of gas and I had to take the Concord to my final destination of Seattle. Lance they never flew Concords from Portland to Seattle!! You LIAR!!! Yes, they did! Those Concords where made by American Motors! Soon to be a French (Renault) company! So there! :lol:

[indian airlines]

I've never really had a worst flight - maybe its because i really like turbulence! I hate absolutely smooth flights. There has to be some excitement - turbulence provides it. So i guess this post, even though it may qualify as a "worst-flight", was not really bad. It was great fun!!!

I was flying to Bombay from Delhi by Indian Airlines in August. Thats like typhoon time in Bombay. As a result, just as we were beginning our descent into Bombay, we hit some r-e-a-l-l-y mean turbulence. The plane was shaking around like nobody's business. To top it all, there was a some lightning, and lotsa thunder. The passengers really had their pants scared of them. My brother and I got quite a kick out of it all.

Yes-we did land safely. :D

A flight that i would consider "not-so-good" (keep in mind i have not used the word bad :D ) was when I was flying by a now defunct airline called EastWest Airlines in India. There was a slight smell of jetfuel, which gave me a bit of a headache, but thankfully the food was great, and so that compensated for whtever smell of jet fuel there was. Needless to say my headache soon disappeared.

Flying is fun man - how can u have a bad flight!! :wink:

[MCIFLYR]

Worst Flight:
April 1997 FLL-DFW-MCI
We arrived at FLL to find that due to weather, our flight to DFW would be departing 3 hours late, which was not bad, but more than enough time to wait in the hot, cramped airport. We finally boarded the MD-80 and made our way to stormy DFW. We circled very low, which was kinda scary due to all the lightning and heavy rain, but really interesting. We landed in DFW and found out our flight was delayed 4 hours to MCI (it was supposed to leave 2 hours before). Well, we made our way to McDonalds for some grub, and on the way back glanced at the Departures screen to see AA XXX to MCI-FINAL BOARDING. Well, we ran through half of DFW, and ran up to the counter at the gate looking like asses, telling them to hold the plane. AA agent "ummm, your plane hasnt even left wichita yet". Well, 4 hours turns to 7, and finally we board. Boarding meant nothing, we sat on the old, hot, humid, overpacked 727 for another 1 1/2 hours!!! Finally the captain comes on the intercom "Well folks, we have clearence to leave, but this flight crew is not legal to fly any more, we have a crew inbound from MIA to get you to MCI". He was not kidding, the crew left and we waited for our MIA crew. After 45 mins they arrived. It was now 1:30am *my birthday*. I told the f/a it was my birthday, and she was really nice, giving me 2 packs of pretzels instead of one!! Well, long story made short, we landed at MCI at 3:15am, instead of our 6pm STA!!! Way to go AA!!!!

[aerpix]

I never had something I would call 'my worst flight', and never had any reason to believe we wouldn't make it. A couple of turbulent flights, some crampy ones, a couple of major delays, but that's it. Most of my over 200 flights were pleasant trips. Only a couple of F/As that were a pain in the a.., one Swissair one onboard a Delta flight, a CityFlyer Express one who had something against my digital camera, and plenty of arrogant and snobbish Swissair F/As. Otherwise no complaints, I love flying.

Regards,
Peter

[LH 340-600]

I want to tell you about another bad trip I had. It wasn't my worst, but it was also a relly bad flight. This time it wasn't about the plane. On my flight from Santiago de Chile to Madrid (about 13 h) there was a crying baby on board. It was horrible. The baby was crying all nearly all the time.

[JoeJoe440]

I have only flown once and it was really bad on the way there 3 kids in front of me were screming and throwing stuff around, and on the flight back to manchester I had to site next to a kid who was sick all over me!!

Joe, 8)

[Meridian777]

On April 18, 2002 I was flying American flight 810 from Reno to Boston via Chicago. In Reno we waited four hours ,due to mech. promblems, to board. We waited another hour before our 737-800 finally left the gate. About 5 minutes into the flight there was a violent vibration coming from the tail. THe first thing that poped into my head was USAir flight 427. (Flight 427 crash near Pittisburg in '94 because of a promblem with the rudder) The vibration stopped after about 10-15 seconds. As soon as the vibration stopped eerybody was looking at each other woundering what happened. About three minutes later the pilot told us we would be diverting to Sacramto,Ca because of a promblem with the stambilzer. My first thought that it was a rudder promblem came true. I started crying because I thought we were all going to Die. In fourteen years of flying I've never been so scared. As we got closer to Sacramto i got into the crash postion not sure if the plane would land. When we landed in Sacarmento I told my self that I would never get on another 737. A day later with we hit serve turblence all the way from Dallas to Boston.

[Airnerd]

My worst flight ever:

SFO-NRT in the spring of 1988 on a UAL 747SP.

As I recall, the flight was about 11 hours long, and for 8 or 9 hours of it we endured moderate to heavy turbulence. No meals could be served, and it was next to impossible to use the lavatories. I would say that probably 30% of the passengers had to make use of their in-flight sickness bags. It was horrible.

[Aussie767]

My worst flight would have to be the one were i thought i was going to die! Its was from my hometown airport of Wagga Wagga (WGA) to Sydney (SYD). It was on a Kendell Saab-340. It was stormy all the way.I really thought i was going to die.

Regards

[G-TDTW]

Outbound: CWL-MAN-YQX-SFB(Airtours and Coachline Travel) Inbound SFB-CWL(Skyservice Canada)

My Worst flight must be on a Airtours International Boeing 767-200 where on the way out we were suppose to depart from CWL and because of a Technical Failure with the a/c it turned out to be a full blown 27 hr delay where we went to LGW then to MAN by coach!!!! Which was suprisingly comfortable, more comfortable than the a/c that we were going to fly on. We arrived at MAN around 2am and we were up by 9am back on the coach to the airport where we arrived at AIH's check in were the luggage belt was broken and we had to cart our luggage to another belt where it was loaded onto the a/c then we were on our way and had another technical problem during flight and had to land at Gander for 4 hours then we were back on our way to SFB and we landed a Day and a half late.

Then on our way home we were delayed fo 9 hours due to another engine failure with the AIH aircraft then crammed onto a crappy Skyservice Canada A330(The first in North America) where the A/C wasn't working and it was Dirty,Uncomfortable and had just come from spain and we landed in CWL a Day Late.

Shame on you Airtours!

[Foxtrop]

I flew on the worst flights in the winter of 2000, when one of the 27 ice-storms to hit Oklahoma that winter decided to screw up mine and my dad's travel plans. We were scheduled to fly out of Will Rogers Airport in Oklahoma City. However, the ice storm was already in full swing and we ended up spending 8 hrs on the phone trying to get re-booked. We eventually got re-booked for Friday of that week. But instead of the morning American F-100 departure, we got seats on an American Eagle ATR turboprop that they used to bring in to Will Rogers. Anyway, we went to the airport and guess what, ran into the first hurdle. The stupid lady at the American Airlines ticket counter in the lobby screwed up the process of checking my green card and if it wasn't for the intelligent man who came to our rescue, the trip would have ended right there! After that first heart attack, the second was waiting in line. We settled in the seating area at the gate and after waiting and hoping that everything would go smoothly from there on out (little did we know what was in store for us) the gate agent told everyone over the PA system that the flight coming from DFW had developed a mechanical problem. Here it was, a bright sunny day w/o any kind of bad weather (yes, it was cold, but sunny) and we had to have the plane that developed mechanical problems. First, they said it would be delayed by half-an-hour. Then they said an hour, b/c the equip. swap hadn't been carried out yet. Finally, almost 2 hours after the announcement was heard, the gate agent told us that the plane had just been pushed back from the gate and it would arrive at 1:50p.m. Our connecting flight to FRA (LH 439) was right on time for a departure at 4:00p.m!! It takes atleast 40 minutes from OKC to DFW. Anyway, we got lucky. We had a faster turboprop deployed for our flight. (The 500th ATR plane) We finally took off from OKC at 2:30p.m. We reached DFW at 3:00p.m. Yes, one hour before the pushback for our connecting flight woud be commenced. But as we would find out, things at DFW are done rather slowly. the trains are slow, the shuttle bus drivers are slow and the the baggage transferring system is even slower. After landing at DFW (as luck would have it, we landed on the west side of the airfield) we could see the LH 342. So close, and yet so far... Minutes were passing by fast. We had to hold short of 36R for 2 departing aircraft and the we taxied ever so slowly to Terminal A via the Yankee bridge. Then, we got off the plane and boarded the bus to take us to Terminal A. And we waited, and we waited. Finally, we got to terminal A, 20 minutes before our connecting flight would close. We raced down to the terminal train station and saw the terminal B train leaving just as we entered it. "Great', I thought. We took the next train. It was 3:57 p.m, just three minutes before pushback of LH 439 from the gate. As soon as the train reached terminal B, we hauled it to the departure level and slammed the tickets down on the gate agent's desk. She was abt to give the green for pulling the gate back! Anyway, we finally got on and heaved a sigh of relief. I didn't care abt anything now b/c I was really tired. Heck, I didn't even care that my dad and I were in the middle 2 seats. (Economy class) After we took off, the flight was smooth, until we hit turbulence over the Atlantic. the whole plane shook, up and down, left and right. good thing it was dark by now, b/c I'm sure some passengers would have pulled the window shades down upon seeing the wings flap! Anyway, when we landed at FRA, the visibilty was really bad. Thick fog blanketed the airport. However, it cleared on out later, thankfully. The only good thing abt this trip was I was at FRA on my birthday! Just can't get better! Anyway, we settled on the next flight to BOM (LH 757, a B742) at 11:30a.m. for a 12:00p.m. departure. We used almost all of RWY 18-36 during the takeoff roll, since the flight was packed to the max. The food on this flight sucked, but what would be even more annopying was an exteremely spoilt kid sitting just 3 rows in front of ours. He was bawling and yapping during the entire 8 hour flight! Now, i normally do not mind bawling kids, but this guy was just not ready to give up! It got to a point where i started getting a head ache, and I really wanted to go there and smack him one bigtime to shut him up!! Even my dad got upset, b/c he was trying to get some sleep! Anyway, we tried as best we could to keep cool and 'ignore' the creep. Finally, after 7 hrs and 20 minutes, we started our approach into the Mumbai airport area. "Thank God, the end of the journey is finally coming!", I thought. Well, yes it was, but nor before one last bit. The pilot cam on the PA system and told us that it would be a little bumpy on the approach into Mumbai. The weather was not as expected. A cyclone of the coast in the Arabian Sea had been dumping heavy rain on the city for the past several hours, and there was still some light rain falling. "Great, a packed heavy 74 and a super-soaked runway! Nice combination!" We started descending through the clouds, and soon, I could see parts of the city passing by. "He better not go for the grease job!", I thought. Thankfully, 2 loud thumps later, we were rolling down RWY 27. The pilot applied full reverse thrust, and ten seconds later, we were on our way to the gate. We got out of the plane, with the super-spoilt kid still screaming my ear-canals out and made our way to customs and immigration. That was over in a while, and then we went to the baggage claim to collect our bags. We waited... 10 minutes passed by, then 20... 30, 40... finally, after waiting for 45 minutes, we pretty much knew that our bags hadn't made it all the way. We found out at the lost baggage center that all four, yes, all 4 were still stuck at DFW. We got them the next day. So, there ends the story of the worst flights I have ever flown on so far.

[a78jumper]

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Then on our way home we were delayed fo 9 hours then crammed onto a crappy Skyservice Canada A330(The first in North America) where the A/C wasn't working and it was Dirty and Uncomfortable and we landed in CWL a Day Late.

I always thought the now defunct Canada 3000 was the first North American Airline to operate the A330. As for being crammed in, SkyService operates theirs in a 2-4-2 config, the same as any regular with a 32 inch pitch, which is what you get with the regs as well. Many charters, including TransAt operate Airbus widebodies in a 3-3-3 or 2-5-2 config. I can not comment on or excuse dirty aircraft, but from a seating perspective I doubt you would have done better elsewhere in Y. You did not say why the airline going home was different. Was this a last minute substitution by AIRTOURS, because of an aircraft unavailability with the original carrier? That would excuse the 9 nine hour delay from the Skyservices perspective, because you have provided little reason why the delay. Weather, traffic. Often once you lose your slot, there is even more of a dlay until the ATC system finds a new one to fit you in. You get what you pay for, and the situation you have described is one the reasons I would never fly charter airlines unless there was no alternative Skyservice does have a good name here, far better than TransAt.



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[Qantas744]

The worst flight...
I haven't had any bad flights yet as such but the worst one I had was on a Qantas 737 (Sydney - Cairns) Y class. As the 737s are so narrow my mum wanted to go to the toilet, but on this 737 were only situated at the front on the cabin...when she returned the cabin crew were serving dinner and would not edge out of her way to let my mum past. So my mum was stuck sitting at the front of the aircraft for 15 minutes for the stupid QF cabin crew to finish serving food only to return to some food that had gone cold. Approx 10 mins later the f/a came back with a bottle of the most expensive red wine and offered it to my mother, trying to look good...but then muttered "Bitch" under her breath when she walked away (why the f*** did she bother offering the wine then?)

The descent into cairns was very quick...only lasted from cruise to landing of a maximum of ten minutes. Normally QF staff are very courteous except for this inexcuseable rudeness.

[RJP]

I thought I'd replied to this but can't see it here..... sorry if this is duplicated.

My worst flight was one that didn't actually get airborne. As we accelerated down the runway at Amsterdam in a DC10 we had an uncontained failure of the no 1 fan disk in the no 2 (tail) engine. We were able to stop in time but the damage it'd caused was incredible, there was a ring of (big) holes round the cowlings, the exhaust shroud & one side of the reverser were no longer attached, there were holes through the stabiliser, the pylon was damaged & apparantly 40% of the fan disk was never found. The (expensive!) repairs took a couple of months & it was back in service for 6 weeks before being written off :( Pity as it was a very nice aeroplane...

We laughed it off at the time, even waving at the windows as the local TV helicopter did a circuit of us, incase it was on CNN that night :-) and the first thing I thought at the time (having been on duty for 11 weeks) was 'oh, good, maybe I'll get some time off' :) (I didn't :( :( ) but looking back we were pretty lucky.

For a couple of reasons that I'm not gonna go into I'm convinced that if we'd got airborne we wouldn't have made it back down safely. I remember looking out the cockpit windows, down the runway & thinking 'i'm glad it didn't happen a mile that way'.

The only way to open a door on the '10 without power is to blow it, as we were surrounded by fire engines and the fire in no 2 hadn't taken hold there was no reason to do that so we were still on-board an hour or so later when we finally got towed back to a stand. Just after we stopped a tug turned up towing 3 baggage trollies heaped with bits of cowling etc. Someone pointed & said 'is that off us?' & everyone said 'nah, can't be' ... then we looked properly & it was :(

RJP

[G-TDTW]

I know Skyservice has a good name but i would have gone with Air Transat because the a/c we flew on was a heap of junk, the film was around 20 years old and the seating was 2-4-2 and a 28" seat pitch as it was a CHARTER aircraft and was in a CHARTER config. as for the unconfortableens the seating was uncomfortable and as i am a tall fella and had requested a Exit Seat and because of the delay i had a Normal seat and the a/c wasn't working Thats why i found it uncomforable as it was Boiling! AIH had subsituted our 767 for Skyservice due to technical Failures with the aircraft again

Delay Time outbound :- 27 hours
Delay Time Inbound :- 11 Hours

[a78jumper]

TransAt's are a lot worse, your seating would have been 3-3-3 and if on a ancient Tri Star 3-4-3. I would never fly TransAt anywhere unless there was no other option at all. TransAt would squeeze 7 across on their 757s if there was a way to do it.

[B777-400]

I was six years old when I was on my first and worst flight...bear with me...I don't remember many details...

We were at Beijing airport (before the new terminal was built). The airport was complete crap...seriously...like an old factory. Our A340 (can't even remember the airline) was 6 hours late. All the rest I can't remember well, except for the fact that we ended up connecting in 5 different middle eastern airports. One plane (a Tu-?) we boarded actually broke down after the safety procedures were explained and we had to disembark. We finally arrive in Amsterdam where we miss our LH737 to Frankfurt so we end up staying overnight in Amsterdam. I think we were 2 or 3 days late arriving in Frankfurt!

[hkgspotter1]

NORTHWORST AIRLINES!!

Hong kong - Tokyo - Los Angeles - San Diego
San Francisco - Tokyo - Hong Kong

Just bad, 4 x 742 and 1 x A320

[iceman]

My worst flight was last summer on AC from LGA-YOW. Thankfully, it was lasted less than an hour, but it was one of the longest 50 minutes of my life.

For one thing, I was seated next to this obese man whose girth extend beyond his seat and into mine. It didn’t help that the area around my seat had a strong urine odor. To top it all off, the flight crew was uncouth and just plain inattentive.

I would hate to imagine how bad it would be if my flight lasted a longer duration!

[B777-400]

Air Canada sux! so does NWA!

[Aeolus]

I had two bad flights actually.

1) I was on an Alaska Airline MD-83, LAS-YVR last Oct. It was a very turbulent ride (even the pilot warned us before departure) for the whole flight. I remember once the plane was tossed to bank to the left at 30 degrees. Not to mention the constant tossing and the sudden disapperance of the force of gravity. Having known what this type of aircraft did off the CA coast of course didn't help either.

2) Also last November I was flying back to YVR from HKG, and it was a CX A340. I trust CX's safety record and the plane, but I wonder why they want to fly into the tailwind that exceeded 300km/hr for almost the whole flight? I remember looking at the screen in front of me and it showed that the ground speed was over 1200km/hr for a few hours. Yes, it arrived a whole hour early (no doubt it would), but for the whole flight I couldn't sleep.

[ErwinS]

My worst flight was last year flying from the Dominican Republic back to Amsterdam.
We flew with DutchBird B757(PH-DBA) and because DB hasn't got ETOPS and the 757 can't make it in one leg back to SPL we had to refuel at Halifax(CAN).

We departed from Puerto Plata and made a short hop to Punta Cana to get some more pax. After depature from Punta Cana, wich was very bumpy, we flew on to Halifax. First we came across some very large thunder storms so it was very turbulent. And then the valve for the pressure cabin began to led it's own life. At intervals we had pain in your ears because off the high press, and also sometimes you became very light in your head because there was underpressure.

So that was 7 hours very awake :shakehea: to Halifax.

Finally we landed at Halifax and there the aircraft was repaired after......5 hours!!! And we must stay in our plane, I sat next to the engine wich was opened and closed time after time :( ...

After all that trouble we departed to SPL and that also took us 6,5 hours....

So man, I was glad to be home after 18,5 hours in a cramped 757! :smilewin:

Never again so far away with such an aircraft an airline.....

Rgds,
ErwinS 8) http://www.jetphotos.net/showphotos.php?userid=516

Hope that my english was good enough.

[N391DA]

My worst flight would have to be on a Beech Bonanza A36 from Wichita to Ponca City, very strong gusts of wind and turbulence and halfway though the flight, we had to turn around because the engine was having problems and it was surging, not a very comforting thing with all the strong winds and turbulence throwing the plane around. Trip ended with a rough landing in ICT.

Worst airline experience would be ATL-TUL on the way back from RSW last Spring Break. Following a long delay in MCO with us stuck on the taxiway for about an hour and a half, we arrived in ATL with what should've been barely enough time to make our connection to ICT. Turns out the plane left 10 minutes early so we stand in line for what seems to be an eternity at ASA Customer Service which was a joke...they didn't have an idea what to do it seemed and they sent us to mainline customer service in Concourse B where at least we got some help...we tried our luck on a standby flight to Tulsa which was successful...the 737-800 was cramped and we were welcomed home with our luggage sent to ICT so we had to get it the next day and a four hour drive through the middle of nowhere in a rental car we had to pay for despite the customer service staff saying it would be on them which they refused to reimburse us for.

[Alohajet]

Without a doubt mine was on June 12 1983. I was flying Pan Am from JFK-FCO. Freakishly strong Tstorms and a mechanical delayed our departure for 5 hrs. Most of that time was spent taxiing from one end of the airport to the other finally waiting by the PA hangars to fix a problem with one engine. That alone took 1.5 hrs. After departure to the north we turned right by a Tstorm cell and got a great display of cloud to cloud lightning.

[mikecweb]

They made you sit in the plane while they fixed it near the hangar?

[Alohajet]

Yep, saw the repair work going on below us from the cabin.

[mikecweb]

Thats horrible. :shakehea: :shakehea:

[N27015]

Surely many passengers won't appreciate that! :smilewin:

[Samurai 777]

I've had one recent flight from hell before - it was back in October, 1999 on the Friday before Thanksgiving (remember we Canucks have Thanksgiving a month earlier).

I had to connect through Calgary (YYC), as there weren't any seats left on the YEG-YVR run - even with WestJet and Air Canada. I had to make a really mad dash at YYC because the Dash 8 flight from YEG was 40 minutes late, with no reason given. Then I tried to use my complimentary upgrade coupon, only to be told that the J class was full. I had to sit in the Y class of a Fokker F28 - the jet a/c that I loathe most of all. For starters, the seats in Y class were small and the seat pitch was extremely bad. My knees were pressing against the seat in front of me! I am 5'7", BTW.

The F28 was also LOUD. It had that weird banshee screeching to it, and the noise level sounded just as loud inside as outside. There was no way I could carry on a conversation with the girl next to me! I can do that in a 737-200, or even a DC-9, but NOT in a Fokker F28.

And to top it all off, the flight was incredibly rough. The turbulence over the Canadian Rockies was so bad that the FAs couldn't serve any food or drinks! Even to this day, I'm amazed that nobody got sick enough to have to use the barf bags. This was the second roughest flight I've been on - only a Time Air Shorts 330 (the flying boxcar!) out of Edmonton I was on back in the very early 80s was worse, where a lady's drink literally hit the ceiling and a couple of pax did get sick.

The F28 landed on time in YVR. I had to take another F28 on the return flight to Calgary a few days later. Yeesh. But fortunately, I managed to put my upgrade coupons to use on that flight. That meant the flight home wasn't as uncomfortable. After all that, I vowed to NEVER fly on an F28 ever again. In fact, if I was given the choice between going on a Dash 8 and an F28, I would've chosen the turboprop.

[a78jumper]

My one trip in a F-28 was with Canadian Regional after they downgraded the YOW-YYZ shuttle from 737-200s as a cost saving measure. What a miserable little fokker, noisy as you mentioned, seedy inside with 1970s seats and colours and not particularily comfortable; the 737-200 was a Cadillac in comparison. Not sure how the F100s compared but the older f-28s were/are not pleasant aircraft to fly any distance in!

[a78jumper]

I flew Britannia B767-200 G-BRIF Manchester to Sanford, Try 9 1/2 hours in 26" seat pitch, with a busted IFE.

Impossible to sleep because of turbulance and their 767s are noisy as hell.

Worst Flight Ever

Is this the bunch that uses 2-4-2 seating in their 767s??

[DeltaRules]

Mine was similar to Mikecweb's CRJ flight, only it was on a 757 ATL-CMH, coming home from GPT in 1998.

In Atlanta we were delayed because of "rain". We finally pushed back, and they shut off the lights & power while taxiing for no reason I could see. We then made a 767-like climb after takeoff & as soon as were at cruising altitude, I could see lightning in the distance. We then were told to strap in & the "fun" began. The "rain" became a full-fledged thunderstorm, and it must have been a line extending all the way South.

For most of the flight, we were being bounced around like a basketball. The crew was told to stay seated, and the IFE video kept playing. While I didn't get sick, the IFE's cooking segment was the last thing I wanted to see in the middle of this. What made it worse, was that 3 kids in front of me were getting sick, and their mom, along with my mom, were in a desperate search for airsick bags. People were literally passing them to us. When we got closer in, we basically nose-dived through the storms, and finally popped out of them around 5 miles from 28L in CMH.

That's the worst one for me!
DeltaRules

[atco]

I want to tell you about another bad trip I had. It wasn't my worst, but it was also a relly bad flight. This time it wasn't about the plane. On my flight from Santiago de Chile to Madrid (about 13 h) there was a crying baby on board. It was horrible. The baby was crying all nearly all the time.

Andy, were you never a baby once?

Are you suggesting that families should be barred from flying because you find kids irritating?

You know I get really fed up with this arrogant attitude, some people seem to forget they were kids once.

[Leftseat86]

You know there were 3 babies on my AF flight from Manchester back to Paris on the 29th, and I didnt mind them one bit!! They were alot better behaved thaen the load of Juventus fans we had onboard connecting to Milan!!! :lol: :lol: They brought the bloody flag on board, and were shouting and yelling the whole flight!

-Clovis

[AIRLNRGUY]

I have never really had a bad flight, I like things like turbulence, diversions and that kind of stuff. Although, on a flight on Continental, CLE-DCA, B737-300, we had a pretty rough ride, I noticed everyone else was scared to death, I was enjoying it. It was so bad though that our first landing attempt was aborted after trying to land and only about a quarter of the runway left. After deplaning was when it all caught up with me, I haven't ever felt so sick from flying before. :( I still enjoyed it. Another flight from COS-SLC on Delta kinda annoyed me when the flight before us had been late. I missed my connecting flight that was on the newest 767400 to PDX, instead, I stayed the night in the Peery Hotel In downtown Salt Lake. Ughh. The upside to this is I got to ride in a Delta 727 one last time before its retirement. :smilewin: Other than that, I have enjoyed every flight I have taken.

[YVR737]

i really havent had a horrible flight really just cause i enjoy it so much. The red eyes suck but i still enjoy it. One experience that bugged me is when i was flying Air Transat L1011 from POP-YYC i got the worst seat in the middle of the 4 and the lady beside me wouldnt stop staring at me and when i would look over she would close her eyes quickly.(like i didnt see) THen when i went to the lav she stole my damn pillow so my buddy told me and she wasnt going to give it back so when she feel asleep i just went and ripped the pillow out from under her :lol: What a creepy women

[AerolineasArgentinas]

Even if it wasn't bad because of the weather, RG flights I took last summer (Southern Hemisphere, EZE-GIG-JFK-GRU-EZE) were a disaster. Old planes (737 and MD-11), not-carying-on-passenger F/As, etc. The only good thing was that I flew GRU-EZE on 'Ruben Berta' - Varig's 777.

[ACES A320]

My worst flight was when I was a little boy, but I remember like it was yesterday.

I flew from Cali (Colombia) and Tulcán (Ecuador).
Tulcán it s the frontier between Ecuador and Colombia, so it s a zone with extreme winds and storms. That day we were in one of this weather damages and suddenly the Fokker F28 started jump as a rollercoaster and the drins jumped in the food car, I was so nervous, I felt the emptiness in my stomach. All the little kids were crying and screamming, the captain spoke to calm down everybody and the main floor full of food and drinks, definetly discusting. After three minutes of shaking we finally arrive to the damn airport wich it s very small and ugly.

After an hour we continue the trip to Quito, this one was a calmed flight.
By the way I was flying in TAME (Military Ecuadorian Transports )

Well, bye to everybody.

I wish youm nice flights.