Sky Score
From luxury upgrades to legroom nightmares, we expose the highs and lows of flying with each airline. Personal experiences only.
Scoring
It’s quite simple actually.
Here are the rules:
We take a flight on an airline and rant discuss our experience below.
Each time we fly with an airline we carefully consider the quality of each individual pretzel, analyze the crud that is left behind in our seat pocket, and observe how much madness occurs from our fellow passengers.
Our rankings are written in pencil (obviously an analogy since I typed this)
Airlines ranked high must earn their keep, and airlines at the bottom must prove we had experienced a fluke of a flight.
We will re-rank after each flight we take with an airline and provide a new deep dive into why the change, if any.
refreshed: Feb 2025Sky Score Ranking
Delta
Hawaiian
Alaska
American | Aerlingus
Air Canada
Iceland Air
Sun country
Please don’t hate us! We are still building out the articles for each of the experiences listed that back up our claim to the airline’s current ranking! If your patience is as short as mine, you can find us discussing each of these on various pod episodes. Start searching.
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Auric Air: A Hot Take... Literally 🔥
Flying from the Serengeti to Zanzibar sounded like an adventure—soaring over the African landscape in a small aircraft, catching epic views of the savanna before landing on a tropical island. I imagined it would be like something out of a National Geographic documentary. What I didn’t expect? A tiny, toasty, turbulence-tickled journey where hydration became a fantasy and shade was just a distant dream.
KLM —The Good, The Bad, and The Reimbursement Battle
Flying with KLM was a rollercoaster—from customer service highs to reimbursement battles that never seem to end. Plus, a nightmare seatmate situation.
Delta International
Our Delta experience was a mix of highs and lows—some smooth cruising and some unexpected turbulence (and not the in-flight kind).
ICELAND AIR
Often times these recaps begin and end in the sky but our experience on this trip must begin when we checked in our bag.