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What's your favorite airline to use to travel from the U.S. to Greece?

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Im planning my tip to Greece now and I'd love to hear your experience about which airlines are better or worse. I find long trips super tiring so I want to make sure my experience is a good as possible. THanks
 
Great question!

In the past I have taken Lufthansa, Swiss Air and British Airways...out of these I have had the best personal experience flying to Greece using British airways.

Hope this helps!
 
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I love flying Swiss!! They always have the best customer service experience
 
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We flew Turkish Air Line from Atlanta,GA to Istanbul then onto Athens. Its a long flight 11 hrs. Food was very good but seating is cramped, not good for the length of the flight. If the length of flight bothers you then I would suggest a stop over in Dublin, Ireland for a few days.
 
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xmelissaa said:
Im planning my tip to Greece now and I'd love to hear your experience about which airlines are better or worse. I find long trips super tiring so I want to make sure my experience is a good as possible. THanks
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I found Pan Am business class to be really great
 
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It all depends on where your flying from in terms of schedule but you can’t go wrong with Seiss, Lufthansa or British.
 
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Flew from US to Germany on Lufthansa, then directly to Greek Island (Santorini). This was a + because the Santorini airport was a piece of cake.

Can do same to other Greek islands via Germany or The Netherlands
 
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Post+in+thread+'What's+your+favorite+airline+to+use+to+travel+from+the+U.S.+to+Greece?' - https://www.worldwidegreeks.com/thr...o-travel-from-the-u-s-to-greece.409/post-1626 KLM. I’d like to fly nonstop and have done so in the past from Atlanta and Newark. If I can go again I will do that. I like KLM’s airport better than flying to Germany, Munich, to change planes to fly on to Greece. Munich has the most frightening escalator that goes up to the sky it’s so tall to get to the level where we need to catch our flight to Greece that I freak out! Normally, heights don’t bother me, but that one really makes me want to die!!! LOL!!! My heart stops every time I look up at it and it’s so high it almost seems like it’s going right up into the sky!!!!! Frankfort isn’t so bad. I’ll take the Netherlands any time in that respect! Or nonstop from Atlanta or Newark!😊
 
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KarenGreece said:
Post+in+thread+'What's+your+favorite+airline+to+use+to+travel+from+the+U.S.+to+Greece?' - https://www.worldwidegreeks.com/thr...o-travel-from-the-u-s-to-greece.409/post-1626 KLM. I’d like to fly nonstop and have done so in the past from Atlanta and Newark. If I can go again I will do that. I like KLM’s airport better than flying to Germany, Munich, to change planes to fly on to Greece. Munich has the most frightening escalator that goes up to the sky it’s so tall to get to the level where we need to catch our flight to Greece that I freak out! Normally, heights don’t bother me, but that one really makes me want to die!!! LOL!!! My heart stops every time I look up at it and it’s so high it almost seems like it’s going right up into the sky!!!!! Frankfort isn’t so bad. I’ll take the Netherlands any time in that respect! Or nonstop from Atlanta or Newark!😊
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KarenGreece said:
Post+in+thread+'What's+your+favorite+airline+to+use+to+travel+from+the+U.S.+to+Greece?' - https://www.worldwidegreeks.com/thr...o-travel-from-the-u-s-to-greece.409/post-1626 KLM. I’d like to fly nonstop and have done so in the past from Atlanta and Newark. If I can go again I will do that. I like KLM’s airport better than flying to Germany, Munich, to change planes to fly on to Greece. Munich has the most frightening escalator that goes up to the sky it’s so tall to get to the level where we need to catch our flight to Greece that I freak out! Normally, heights don’t bother me, but that one really makes me want to die!!! LOL!!! My heart stops every time I look up at it and it’s so high it almost seems like it’s going right up into the sky!!!!! Frankfort isn’t so bad. I’ll take the Netherlands any time in that respect! Or nonstop from Atlanta or Newark!😊
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I've heard great things about KLM as well! It would be so nice to fly direct
 
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