Another shot of Google Earth with emphasis this time on the Western Hemisphere. Looking closely, you can see that my home airports are SFO and SAC (San Francisco and Sacramento). We do use Oakland and San Jose from time to time, While you will note some flights out of LAX (Los Angeles) we are very willing to go anywhere else to fly out. It is not very pleasant.
Of airlines, we prefer Alaska Airlines for short haul (and now across country as they merged with Virgin America) and for overseas we prefer Air France. While we have flown a variety of others (Good marks to Jet Blue, Southwest, and Virgin Atlantic) we are not fond of United or Delta. WOW is out of business in Europe - and for good reason. One surprise was South African Airlines which did a fine job in and out of smaller airports in Zambia and Botswana. For the first years of flying, some fifty years ago, we were big fans of PSA (Pacific Southwest Airlines) which is no more.
Coming up we can review Lufthansa which is a partner with Air France with a direct flight from SFO to Frankfort.
Low on our list, and maybe others as some are going out of business, are Aer Lingus and Alitalia.
About planes, we like the 777-200 and the A-380. Not excited about the prop Horizon planes, but they seem to always get us there with free beer and wine.
As a side note, since 1990 we have chosen to fly premium which makes a huge difference, although it costs about a thousand dollars more to Europe. We find it worth it.
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