Airliners.net

Agree with a recent review by J. S. The moderators show extreme prejudice and are unable to moderate fairly and impartially. Any chance at trying to resolve an issue with a moderator is a joke. If your looking for a web based chat forum, this is not it. The only thing left that is any decent on airliners are the photos. As for the forums, don't waste your time. If I was able to give less than 1 star I would.

The moderators are extremely anti USA. If I make any comment about this my post or threads will get deleted. I called someone an idiot ( I know shouldn't have done it) and got the famous "board warning " while other members use profanity. I also think that the moderators wouldn't no a prop if they walked into one. If you like aircraft, stay away. If you want to bash good people, then it's a place for you.

Szabo Gabor is a bully and will deliberately block you from the website. Change your password and keep deleting any photos you have uploaded for any minor issue that happened a long time ago. He will continue to bully you and make life difficult for you until you leave. The website has gone to the dogs and I will be going elsewhere. Avoid at all costs.

Used to be a reasonably good source of photos, but since the site face-lift a few years ago employed a new search engine it has gone downhill badly. Ever heard of the expression "If it ain't broke, don't fix it"? Clearly the crew at Airliner.net haven't. Previous incarnation worked well, new search engine is unwieldy and often throws up very wayward results.

The Forums though are biggest problem. The moderators have not got a shred of an idea about management or customer service. If you read their forum rules, the terms and conditions they impose breach consumer law in many countries. When I entered a dispute with the moderators, they banned me without any right of appeal for simply standing up for my legal rights. Yet by the same token, one of their moderators was permitted to slander me and I was denied any recourse. In fact when I demanded an retraction and an apology from the moderator concerned, that was what prompted them to ban me.

I am a member of FlyerTalk, and while different discussions can get heated at times, we all share a passion, travel & aviation, and if everyone is treated fairly, everything goes well. Airlines.Net is the "4chan" of aviation. A lawless, disgusting piece of work. The moderators think they are Gods while encouraging racism, discrimination, and delete factual topics that go against their opinion. Photos are fantastic but the forums are run by third graders, for third graders.

The site looks like it hasn't been updated for over a decade the UI is very old

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My posts just get deleted for no apparent reason. I try to ask why, and the messaging portal doesn't work. Used to a great site, now its just BS. Can't see why anybody goes there anymore.

I have uploading photos on Airliners.net since 2018 with a total of 172 photos accepted and just previously I have getting a string of rejections from photo along with harsh emails from one of their head screeners and i don't appreciate it at all.

Every thread is controlled by unofficial site moderator sanctioned curators. The only option is to fall in line with their views. If you oppose, you will be fixed or banished. This practice by site mods enables a handful to bully everyone else. Not a place to exchange ideas and learn new things.

Forums are potentially the worse on the Internet. Absolutely awful moderating, tragic discussions and the fact they allow bullying is simply ridiculous. Aviation is meant to be a welcoming environment and this forum / website is far from it. Disgusting to say the least the way they handle things.

The photos are great to look at and there's good information to be had.

The forums are another story. They've long been dominated by pro- Continental Airlines posters and moderators and any sort of criticism of CO in particular will be met with deleted posts or warnings by some mods such as atcundevil who is a CO fan who will accuse you of breaking rules, even if your posts do not break any posted rules. That is abuse of power and limiting freedom of speech. Your posts will be flagged for any criticism of Continental Airlines and I have no doubt there are paid employees there to help shape a narrative and curtail any sort of dissenting opinions that don't frame the narrative they want.

Several years ago this site used to be the top thing for posting your aviation photos. Unfortunately after some ownership changes and bad management it has become an utter mess. The site is very difficult to use and not user friendly at all, and the forums are nowhere near as active or good in content as they used to be. I Wouldn't recommend this site to anybody.

This site was amazing back in 1999-the early 2000's. Ever since they sold the company, the ads and the overall layout have made this site a total pain to use. The search function is a total nuisance. I don't even think the new search feature pulls up the rights hits. I used to visit this site and relive some memories from years gone by but it has become such a pain to use that I actually stopped visiting the site.

Sometime you just have to leave a good thing alone.

I recall back in the mid-2000s when I would search endlessly for photos of airliners and how almost any type was accepted, size big or small, exposure satisfactory to fantastic. But now it's almost impossible to submit any photo to the site. The rules are ridiculous and beyond any reason. It also doesn't make sense. They allow photographs that clearly have been heavily manipulated to be submitted but not those in which little to no editing was done. I understand that a photo has to meet a certain criteria such as I mentioned above and that quality is important. However in Airliners.net's case, there isn't any sense. I can confirm that argument with some professionals who have uploaded photos in the past to them but cannot do so anymore due to there ludicrous rules. Not to mention the search engine has gotten to be too complicated to use.