I prefer Boeings but always select flights based off of price and time, etc. Wouldn’t mind flying Airbus for life if it were cheaper.
I’ve flown so many transpacific flights I can’t count. When I was flying for my former companies I would sometimes have gold level membership on a couple of airlines during the same year.
The difference between flying business class and economy was so great that any tiny difference between airlines or airplane manufacturer didn’t register.
Now I buy my own tickets, I care about one thing: cost.
I notice, but as long as the aircraft gets me there, that’s all that matters.
I have taken many commuter flights in turboprop aircraft (mostly on Beechcraft 1900D’s), and they are so loud that you cannot hold a conversation. In a few weeks, I’ll be flying on a Dash-8. Can anybody comment on how loud the Dash-8 is?
I’ll nominally make 6 or 8 flights a month, single trips with one stopover, so double the planes. I’ve never paid attention to the model of aircraft.
Either it gets me there or it’s someone else’s problem.
I’m kinda the same way. I haven’t been on a 787 or an A380 yet, so if either of those is an option on a trip I’m taking, I’d be more likely to book that flight. I flew to L.A. in December and was on a 757; likely the last time I’ll ever be on one of those.
I also check which airports I’ll be at. I flew to New York City once several years ago and took the Delta Shuttle because it operated from the old Marine Air Terminal at LaGuardia. I took JetBlue once with a stopover at Kennedy because JetBlue put the effort into restoring the old TWA terminal there (but I didn’t get to see as much of it as I would have liked).
Note that seat positioning has nothing to do with aircraft model - the manufactures provide the airlines with a hollow tube, and the latter place the seats based on how much money they make and how much they hate humanity.
I fly a couple times a year ad never really noticed that there were different planes. I buy the cheapest flight that gets me from A to B. I also assume the airline will screw things up and that TSA will make things even more unpleasant. I’m never disappointed.
I put “other”, but it is similar to the “safety card” response: I don’t notice at all when booking, but when getting on the plane I notice things like the width, standing areas and other floors.
Booking a flight from Heathrow to LAX I would have preferred a later time than the 10.30am flight. But the 10.30am was the only one that was a 747, and if I was springing for Business Class, I wanted to be upstairs on a 747. So yes, I chose my flight specifically for the type of plane.
I pay attention, the big airplane company in Seattle is my employer. Haven’t flown on one of my company’s planes since flying home from New Zealand in 2013, the 10 flights since have been on Airbus or Embraer. 4 of the 10 flights were on an airline that proclaims it has an all Boeing fleet. My next scheduled flights are in December, going back to New Zealand. All the flights are on Airbus a330’s.
I fly more than a normal person would. I have a routine commute on the same flights, and the same aircraft models over and over again.
Do you ever notice if it’s the exact same plane or not?
Sometimes I notice one of Alaska’s novelty paint designs and I know I’ve been on the plane before.
Yes, I have several friends who are flight attendants so I probably know more than the average person as it’s somethingt we text about.
Of course, sometimes you don’t have a choice.
Most of my domestic flights are on Southwest and I’ll do anything to avoid O’Hare. DC is the place I fly to most often and I’ll take any flight to DCA and try to avoid IAD and BWI.
I voted other because this exact fight is the only time I pay attention. The prop planes are smaller, slower, and louder. The time of the flight is much more important but if I have multiple choices I choose the bigger planes.
I have a strong preference for the wider planes, the kind that have more than one aisle and 3-4 engines instead of just 2. They’re less likely to make me feel like a canned sardine, the engines tend to run at a lower auditory frequency and hence don’t hurt my ears.
I don’t tend to put much effort into booking flights by the type of plane because they make substitutions at will and in order to make my choice on the basis of plane type, I’d be somewhat foregoing making my choice on the basis of convenient departure time, convenient airport (NYC region has several; I’m aware that it’s a luxury to be able to choose departure airport) and price, and then often would end up on a damn 737 or equivalent anyway.
In general, I’m flying domestic trips and wishing to be on the kinds of planes more often used on long international trips.
I notice but more from the old comedy routine about Boeing sounding like some part just fell off – boiinng. Forget if it was Carlin or who but something in that line stuck with me and I always think of it when checking the type of aircraft scheduled for the flight. I’ll still get in the plane.
(Let the daredevils get on the plane)
I would not take a plane with 3+3 seating on a long international flight but I don’t choose a flight based on what make or model their aircraft is.
I almost always wind up flying Southwest, so I rarely have much choice anymore. Depending on what the ultimate fix winds up being for the 737MAX, I may opt to avoid it for awhile after it returns to service.
If I have a choice of planes, I would tend to choose bigger ones, or ones I had not been on before. I used to live in a smaller city, and had more flights on commuter sized planes. I think turboprops are kind of fun, but uncomfortable enough that I’d avoid them now, all other things being equal. It’s been a long time since I’ve been on a really big plane. I think the last time was in the 90s when I was last on a 747.
Yes I do. I am a bit of an aviation buff.
Still, some planes are make you notice the. Like the A380, which is effing huge. And off course the turboprops.
But a 767 v A350? Not so much.
I hate turboprops because every damn time I have to fly on one they stick me in the window seat where the prop whizzes by your face at a million miles per second, and you can’t shut the little window for “safety” reasons. It is like laying down and trying to relax with your face inches away from a running lawnmower blade…times 100.