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Polynesian Blue Passenger Reviews and Polynesian Blue Customer Trip Reports
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Polynesian Blue customer review : 14 June 2011 by L Simi (UK)
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Trip Rating : 6/10 |
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Cabin Flown: | Economy |
AKL-APW return. It's cheap, the planes are old and noisy, and staff are so laid back they're
practically horizontal! But on the plus side, the flight is less than four hours, the crew are
friendly enough, and the fare was half that of the other airline operating this route, Air NZ.
Polynesian Blue- by A Hope
15 April 2009
Polynesian Blue from Apia to Sydney to Canberra. Apia a nice quiet airport as the flight is
about the only departure at a civilised time - 11am. Plane a fairly well travelled B737, was
late arriving so take off was late. On checkin the attendant tried to charge me for 4Kg excess
baggage but I told him not to be ridiculous as I had paid the Premium Economy fee. Apia
airport does not feature any special lounge even if you want to pay to enter one - and drinks
cost! A G&T was about $14, - but at least some respite was available! Onboard, the plane was
only about 1/4 full so had 3 seats empty next to me. Everything cost and meals/drinks were
only just ok. There was no face painting but the FA did keep everyone amused in the 'talking
down to little children' mode. Worst feature was that the seats which have a very nice leather
cover had very little padding on the seat base thus the seats were hard and unyeilding. I
think this might be because the airplane seemed to be one of the older ones previously used on
domestic Australian services and the padding has simply flattened over the years. The
connection thru Sydney, to my domestic Virgin Blue flight was a pleasure with bags arriving
fast and the transit counter attendants cheerful and helpful. The Canberra - Sydney flight was
on a nice new Embraer jet which I found to be an absolute wonder compared to the 'other'
airline that mostly uses hideous noisy little clockwork toy aircraft with knees under chin
seating. I shall use this DJ service again. But I cant see the value of the extra $330 I paid
for my 'premium Economy' fee, to be realistic - what extra did I get that I didnt already have
to pay for?
Polynesian Blue- by David Zweck
3 August 2006
Sydney-Apia one class. Polynesian Blue has only been operational on this
route for about 12 months. This is a very ordinary "no frills" airline
experience that I will certainly not want to repeat any time soon. It is
a one class airline using commuter 737's configured to provide a small
amount of extra leg room for a 5 hour International Flight. The seats
are the usual Virgin Blue (Australia) seats that are leather and just
O.K. The service is ordinary, the Samoan attendants are friendly, but
so very casual and everybody is called a "guest" or "boys and girls".
Some might like this and some may not. I prefer to be called a
passenger, and at the risk of sounding old fashioned, I don't want to
have my face painted and I am not interested in the whole cabin
celebrating my birthday. Everything has to be paid for including the
portable DVD players that may or may not work at $A15 thankyou, The real
crunch though is the food. One gets hungry on a five hour flight and my
advice is to take your own. The food served on these Virgin Flights is
very bad even by airline standards. With a choice of only 3 hot dishes
at $A9 each, I chose the pasta with pesto and vegetables. It looked bad
and tasted even worse and I would not have served it to my cat.
Unfortunately it is the only direct flight from Sydney to Apia, but
regardless of that, next time I will fly Air New Zealand via Auckland
and enjoy the flight and the meals.
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