They say you get what you pay for!. Review on Air India

If you dont mind waiting in LONG, SLOW queues then this is the Airline for you.

Recently I flew from London to New York with Air India , which set me back next to nothing. I was just wondering how they managed to keep their prices so low. Once I got to Heathrow, I began to see how it all worked. Firstly, low prices attract loads of travellers, so the plane is always filled to the last seat, no chance of stretching out on the plane. Loads of people also means loads of queuing. At the check-in desk there was only three ground staff. To get onto the plane, you had to go through a second security check, which means that all passengers have to queue up once again to have their bags scanned by one machine and each be individually searched.

The queuing does not stop there. On the runway, Air India has low priority in terms of take-off queues. They pay less for their take-off slot at Heathrow than other Airlines and therefore have to yield to anything that wants to take off before them. Great. So invariably you will arrive a little later than anticipated.

Although the plane was allegedly cleaned during its refuelling at Heathrow, when I got on, it looked and smelled, like an Indian restaurant after a friday night visit by a group of drunken football hooligans.

Despite the good price, I will remember in future that you get what you pay for, and I will stick to BA, AA, Virgin Atlantic etc