For the past couple of months I have been debating which airline from the United Emirates is best to fly? Is it Emirates or Etihad?
They are both surperb airlines with a fanstastic reputation and offer great deals and now the deals they offer are so close in price it really now depends which airline should my preference be with.
Yesterday I took a flight using Brussels Airlines from Malta through to Manchester as they came up as the cheaper option. Overall to be honest the flight was not too bad and what happened was not their fault. This was an airline when it was Sabena I vowed never to fly again as they lost my luggage every time I flow with them. The chance of this happening again was near none as every other airline I have flown with including ones with extremely short connections they have never lost my luggage. The only airline I have lost luggage with 100% of the time from several flights is Sabena/Brussels Airlines. This journey allowed me to retain my 100% luggage loss rate!
Firstly I took off using Air Malta which was delayed by an hour due to problems with flights leaving Brussels put down to weather. Once we departed the overall flight to Brussels was fine and landed an hour late leaving less than an hour for me to change terminals and get my connection. The information Brussels Airlines provided to me was limited and I had to dash through the airport with little to no information on how to get my connecting flight. Through sheer fluke I made my connection but my luggage did not. They put down the blame to Air Malta although it was their airline and their airport that my luggage did not make it through.
Upon landing in Manchester we were left sitting on the plane for another 20 minutes because they could not power down the engine. This did not come as a surprise and something which I expected from this airline. My advice to you is use a different airline to Brussels Airlines even if it works out more expensive as avoiding the headaches is well worth it.
Stumbled upon this website while searching for a flight from Manchester to Malta. All the prices I was getting quoted because it was a last minute flight and over the Christmas/New Year holiday season were in excess of £350. This was way too much so I searched the web trying to find a solution on how to get Malta for cheap. I even looked at EasyJet and that too worked out expensive. In the end this website found the flights for £270 all inclusive. It broke the flight up to flying out on EasyJet and back on Brussels National Airline.
The transaction went through smoothly and they even texted me on my mobile the flight confirmation number. No other site I have used does that and this makes it very handy as you take your mobile phone everywhere including the airport to collect the ticket.
Worth checking out TerminalA yourself should you be looking for a cheap way to fly somewhere. Just visit TerminalA.com.