Transatlantic Flights

[jalu]

Yo dudes,
I'm heading across the pond from the UK to a little town known as LA in May for E3 and am pondering airline choices - has anyone been on the following airlines that would like to influence my choice:

1) US Airways (note: not AA) - connect in Philly
2) Air France - connect in Paris
3) BMI - connect in Chicago
4) Aer Lingus - connect in Dublin

Those are the four carriers I can choose from in my price range (cheapest being number 1, most expensive is 4) but have some comments:

1) US Airways - I've done some research and have heard some pretty negative comments on these. Dubious, but cheapest flight.
2) Air France - Not heard anything about these.
3) BMI - I was looking at these first - I have been told they are quite good but don't have much to back it up with.
4) Aer Lingus - heard a few horror stories.

I'm aware that most people will only put things on web plane review sites if they are bad so I'm not putting all my faith on them, but it's all I have to go on thus far.

I've included a voting button at the top but if you don't mind please give me some explanation so I can make an informed judgement. FYI, I'm tall (6 foot 3) and bigger than your average.


PS, if I fly with US airways, the hop from Philly to LAX is with United Airlines.

Cheers for any help,
Jalu

[Michael]

I live in Philly and fly to Germany and France pretty often.

I fly US Air most of the time and have no complaints. At least no more so than with any other airline.

Air France is nice. All their flights I have been on have had personal video monitors, I think. That's nice for a long flight.

[jalu]

Originally posted by Michael
Air France is nice. All their flights I have been on have had personal video monitors, I think. That's nice for a long flight.

Personal monitors - indeed that is nice.

Is that coach, though?

Jalu

[Michael]

Yeah, coach.