Showing posts with label Pacific Blue. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Pacific Blue. Show all posts

Thursday, 28 July 2011

PACIFIC STINKS



This morning’s Dom report of 160 passengers allegedly wrongfully detained in Wellington airport by Pacific Blue is a shocker. The same situation occured on a Qantas flight I was on from Deli a few years ago. Let me tell you, I have never flown Qantas again. Adding insult to injury to affected passengers, they only detained those in economy class. Fortunately, I was flying business class on that occasion but was horrified on behalf of my fellow travellers. The poor buggers looked and smelt like the living dead when we were finally all herded onto an available plane the next day. I understand India has tidied up its act in recent times with regard to its treatment and processing of travellers. New Zealand appears to be going backward. It’s unacceptable in an OECD country so dependent on its tourist industry. Pacific Blue appears to regard its passengers as cattle. An airline to be avoided. And, where were Wellington Airport's staff and systems.

Wednesday, 6 May 2009

COMPETITION IN THE FRIENDLY SKIES


Yee bloody hah! Finally some competition in the skies around the provinces. Pacific Blue is set to fly We have been gobsmacked by the cost of flights to Invercargill and Queenstown over the past year. It means we give all our spare cash to Air New Zealand instead of spending it in local shops. And the planes are pretty cool too -the Brazilian-built 104-seat Embraer 190 E-Jets.
While we love Air New Zealands on the ground service and the cabin crew are tops, they fall woefully short in getting bags off the plane and the snacks are crap.