No Fly Zone: Meridiana Airlines

If you are planning on flying from London to Florence the only non-stop flights are operated by an Italian airline named Meridiana which proclaims itself as "Low Cost, High Quality". W4 urges you to never to fly on this airline - ever. On four recent flights between London and Florence over the course of a month delays occurred on all segments ranging anywhere from 1.5 hours to 3 hours with few apologies or even a free drink to pass the delays. They also made one of our team check their standard issue Tumi carry-on suitcases because it was 2KG over the 8KG limit. W4 ranks this airline as one of the worst in Europe and suggest that they update their slogan to "Low class, One Way Ticket to Hell". To make matters worse, Meridiana operates out of London's charter airline cesspool, Gatwick's South Terminal, which is full of the worst of Britain - tracksuit wearing, drunken chav bastards who smoke, drink and puke their way to package tour holiday hell in Cofu. The airline uses a contract company, ServicAir, for check-in and ground operations, who are useless in providing any information. Our team witnessed the sole Meridiana employee on the ground in London threaten to sic the police on a man who was expressing his frustration to her in a civil manner. We suggest taking either British Airways or Ryanair to Pisa, a one hours drive or train to Florence or into nearby Bologna.
+SkyTrax: Merdiana Customer Comments.
+British Airways flies to Pisa and Bologna Daily.
+RyanAir flies to Pisa.
+EasyJet flies to Bologna.