[k-mcgrady]

I don't think this is true at all. Europe's low cost airline business is major. Easyjet, Ryanair, Flybe and Jet2 just to name a few. Obviously the service on these carriers is awful but flying between European cities for $50 a flight isn't uncommon. Personally my most consistent good service experiences have been with Air Canada. BA was good too as was Aer Lingus. I've only had two flights with them but I wasn't fond of AA.

[toomuchtodo]

Singapore Air is amazing, has a great rewards program, and is affordable.

[pyre]

  | Personally my most consistent good service
  | experiences have been with Air Canada.

I recently saw a headline that Air Canada is the third worst international airline for arriving on time. That said, I had no complaints about my only Air Canada trip (3 connecting flights).

[alanctgardner2]

As a Canadian I've used AC and other regional carriers quite a bit. Have to give a shout-out to Porter, if you're flying to the few cities in North America they service, they're top notch. Especially flying into Toronto, they exclusively use the Toronto Island Airport (YTZ), which is much more pleasant and better situated than Pearson (YYZ).

I think AC has gotten better, at least on domestic flights, since they've had more competition.

[benatkin]

This was my only issue with Air Canada: my first and only (to date) flight with them was several hours late. It wasn't a problem for me so I think of them as being one of my preferred airlines because of how good everything else was. If the lateness had been a problem I might have seen it differently, though I didn't think the delay was their fault.

[k-mcgrady]

I've flown from Ireland to the US and Canada with them several times now and the service has been excellent. Now that you mention it though most of the flights arrived slightly late (no more than 30 mins). As they were trans-atlantic flights and I wasn't in a hurry it didn't bother me.