Worst travel experience yet (Alitalia)

Member Name: Cammij

Product:	Alitalia
Date:	20/11/05 (2181 review reads)
Rating:

Advantages: It went to where I need to go

Disadvantages: oh, you will hear them all

Hello, I just flew from New York City to Sofiya Bulgaria and back on Alitalia and it had to be the worst travel experience that I have ever had. I spent a whole lot of money to be treated poorly.

First off you know how when you get on the plane they have all these newspapers laying in a basket? Well on this airline every last one of them except two are in Mexican. I did not like that at all. I can't read that.

Second they beat my luggage to death. Both of my suitcases were mangled by these people. I honestly thought that maybe they got left behind somewhere and a bombsquad came and blew them up.

Third the food was awful. You can buy better TV dinners at Aldi's than what these meals were. I can't even guess what it was. I could chose between chicken and fish but that doesn't sort it out. Some nasty salad....I don't even want to remmeber it so I will stop now.

Fourth my TV was busted on the way back and I could not watch the stupid lame three year old movies (Elf in November 2005????WTF????) Nor could I play the trivia game. I have a real joy when I crush all the people in Trivia matches since on other planes they can see the seat number of the champs and people look over and see that some geezer with a foot long beard and tattoos on his head is smarter than them. I could have cleaned up being that the people were all talking Mexican on this plane anyways.

Fifth they cut me off the booze way before I got unruly. My mate works for the airlines, a nice one, and he tells me all the crap they are pulling to save weight and one of them is to not have any selection of booze. The beer they gave me was mexican too. But I did get Grappa. On the way back they did not even have wine for the lunches. I needed booze more than ever as all these old people on the way back from a group tour thought that they were in a stand cafe not an airplane and were milling around socialising the whole flight.

Sixth the free inflight magazine was no good at all, I won't even bother to say what language half of it was in.

Seventh, we didn't get a drink prior to lunch on the way back and once the lunch was served I think the entire crew parachuted off the plane because I didn't see them at all again. They hid in the back and to get a drink you have to squeeze yourself through the whole plane and go to the back to get a small cup of coca-cola from a self serve stand.

The worst thing is what they did to my flight on the way home, they chose to delay us for two hours to wait for another plane with 60 passengers on it to arrive from Baloney. We had to sit and wait in the terminal for this other plane and many people missed their connections in NYC for this. Their feeble attempt to appease us was to give us some boarding pass looking thing that we could exchange for a sandwich or slice and a small drink. That is what two hours of my time is worth to these people, a sandwich and a cup of pop. I am glad my employer considers my time more valuable.

Another bad thing is that the flight crew was simply ugly, I understand that it probaly takes seniority to get a good route like this so all the old and worn out workers get it, but somehow the lufthansa and KLM planes always have a few hotties on them. I can at least waste the 8 hours daydreaming about joining the mile high club with them.

The only good thing about the flight was they had damn good music in the earphone thingies and they did not charge for earphones.

Summary: They are no good