![]() No legal liability is accepted if you take my advice. It earned high scores for staff service and ease. Note that all reviews and opinions on Air Southwest (SZ) food, service, seats, planes, upgrades, and lounges is soley at my judgement. Out of the 11 airlines surveyed, Southwest landed at the top of the ratings chart for overall satisfaction by passengers on economy flights. They always kept me updated when I had questions about our arrival. How these two very different entities will get along together - let alone merge - is anyone's guess, but at the moment if you want to visit some of the more obscure airfields around the UK, this unlikely pairing is your way to do it.Īir Southwest Dash 8 boarding at Newquay on a frosty morning in Janurary They have always had good service and enjoyable staff. The UK companies are very different, and staff are sensitive about the name get it wrong at your peril. of all things), while the later went bust in 1991, after having operated flights to London using ex-Qantas 747s out of Miami. The former is a low-cost player operating in the United States (but originally called Air Southwest Co. Of course, you shouldn't mistake Air Southwest or Eastern Airways for Southwest Airlines or Eastern Air Lines. The airline has a slogan of "Fly Britain's Local Airline".Įastern Airways is however a very different beast, very much full service, even to the level of bringing out hot towels on a little silver tray before the flight. Air Southwest is a low-cost, no-frills operation, selling fares over the web, with few perks and no frequent-flyer scheme (although it does have a business class lounge) and uses the low fares, web-based format for bookings with over 90% of all bookings made online. The two airlines are also very different. Meanwhile Eastern Airways has its main base at Humberside, and operates a fleet of 30 planes, which is a whole lot more impressive when you realise that most of them are tiny BAe Jetstream 41s seating just 29 passengers. to give it its full name) has its main hub at Plymouth City Airport in Devon, but with many of its routes operating out of Newquay, using just five small rather old and tired Dash 8 planes. The two are now linked, following the takeover of Air Southwest by Eastern Airways.īoth are, in world aviation terms, tiny. ![]() Southwest Airlines Economy Class 737-800 Review. If you're flying to small, rather obscure parts of the UK, you'll trip over the small operations of Air Southwest and Eastern Airways. However, I have the Southwest Companion Pass so, my wife (aka my companion), my infant daughter and I would all flying for 23,807 Southwest points total. All passengers will receive a full refund. Eastern Airways, which had run the Air Southwest airline as a separate brand after taking it over last year, said they had no choice, as the airline is 'no longer financial viable'. The airline will axe all routes to Plymouth two weeks before this, on September 14th, and then all routes to Newquay, including Aberdeen, Bristol, Cork, Dublin and Leeds Bradford will by cut at the end of September. Air Southwest are to close permanently on September 30th, 2011.
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