NitroX,

No harm in the truth, I agree with you the American airlines in my experience are desperately lacking as far as service goes. I fly at the very least once a month and many times much more often most of my flights are in the continental US but I still fly internationally enough until very recently to go through a passport a year worth of international stamps.

I find the English airlines the best in service and overall experience though oddly enough short of the British Airways Concord god rest her sole and Virgin airlines first class service Air Jamaica is one the nicest I have flown. I have not had the pleasure of an Aussie airline to date something I hope to remedy next year, and this will be my first trip on SAA though I suspect being an offshoot of a American liner it will fair no better.

I do feel much safer on an American flight though in terms of crash safety with the British liners being about equal anything other I have crash safety in the back of my mind.

James F. Nixon III