jimtrish

were flying with M.A in july, although its too late for us if they aren't up to much, would just like abit of feed back regarding them.
I have 3 young kids(6,10 and 11) are they good with kids and do they cater well for kids too.
anyone know anything about their safety record....yes im a complete panicker!!

Appreciate any input,

Thanks alot

Trish

ljj

In-laws like them. MIL doesn't like the food but also said that with Singapore who I can't fault..... Infact I don't think she thought much of my cooking when she was here with us for a month either so don't let that bother you.

They rate them slightly below Singapore but way above BA/Qantas so I think you will be fine. They didn't do the journey with kids but have heard of others that have said they are fine.

LJJ

jimtrish

many thanks for that

Hutch

Excellent airline. Loads of leg-room in the seats (34" pitch if memory serves), attentive cabin crew. Only thing I'd say is, get the cabin crew to double-check that your kids meals are present in the galley as soon as you can (like when you're first boarding!) - they 'lost' our son's meal on one of our trips and he had to have the fish curry!

Grayling

Hi Trish

IMO they are the best airline between the UK and Australia....similar to Singapore but much more legroom...that makes a real difference on a long flight.

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northernbird

My dad won't fly with anyone else, he says they are fantastic.

jimtrish

hey honey

lovely to hear from you.
hope you are well.
thats excellent news.
thanks for that.

take care

Trish
xx

jimtrish

thanks mate,

we had the same problem when flying with cathay in 2005, on all legs of the journey they claimed it hadnt been booked for kids meals, but i kept all the info so knew it had,...kids werent impressed with the fritattas!

jimtrish

thats really reassuring, thankyou

sparkley23

No freebies with them tho (e.g. no comfort pack...eye shades, toothbrush that sort of thing)

jimtrish

thats ok by us, the kids just stash it away somewhere anyway, only to be thrown out later...we didnt get any freebies with cathay either.

OzTennis

FWIW, having used Emirates 7 times (my favourite airline) and Singapore, Malaysia, BA, and Qantas twice each or more, I found Malaysia to be 2nd best to Emirates. Here's a typical Malaysia meal (I'm not sure what MIL was objecting to!):



OzTennis

Centurion

Good airline. The biggest seat pitch in economy compared to Emirates, SQ, BA or Qantas. If you've got to do that many hours on a place every inch counts.

www.airlinequality.com for the definative review section for flights taken by passengers.

OzTennis

Yep, and I liked KLIA (although Dubai and Changi are excellent), the leg-room as mentioned, the attentive service. One little problem we had was just the wait for our connection from KLIA to Melbourne but we had no problem filling in the time and in retrospect I probably would have paid to use one of those nice lounges. I'm not a film watcher/games player but the onboard entertainment looked good as well (pretty similar between Emirates, Singapore, Malaysia).

OzTennis

wayne/kerrie

Trish you really need to have trust in your travel agent , if she says its a good airline then it is and she is even going to test them out for you. ha ha

kez x