Adrian, I can understand your points. However, I completely disagree with your argument that ONLY Oneworld strives for quality of service. I have no doubt that Oneworld strives for this. How can one say, however, that Oneworld strives for quality of service, moreso than Star or even Skyteam, per se? I’ve already given a few examples of why Star is good to me, but I’m going to give you another. Last summer I purchased an economy class ticket on United: LAX-AKL-SYD, with the same routing on return. For the record, I love that layover in AKL on the outbound, as a nice shower in the UA/NZ lounge makes you feel like a champion after an 11.5 hour flight, prior to boarding the remaining 3 hours to SYD. Much better than flying nonstop LAX-SYD, and yet I digress… Anyhow, the LAX-AKL portion was flown by UA and the AKL-SYD portion was flown by NZ, with a UA flight number. On the outbound, I redeemed 25,000 miles and upgraded to business class. The upgrade was only supposed to apply to the UA portion of the flight, not the NZ portion. Prior to boarding the 2nd leg in AKL, the gate agents called me up to the podium and informed me that they were upgrading me on the AKL-SYD portion, as well. They had noticed on my ticket, apparantly, my situation, so they decided to do it out of the kindness of their hearts. I definitely see that as a situation, where a member of the alliance is striving to make a passenger of a partner member, happy. These types of situations have to be viewed as quality, despite quantity. Are these situations more frequent on Oneworld than on Star or Skyteam? Who’s to say?

Where do you take those pics at in FRA?

Nice pics Monster. Do you use digital?

How could Star not be quality? Singapore, Thai, Lufthansa, Air New Zealand, Austrian, United….. That’s some pretty damn good quality to me! I echo everything Mongu says, and will throw in some examples. I’ve flown on several Star members and always get the FF mileage automatically put into my account. If I had to fax a copy of boarding pass, ticket, etc, every time I took a partner flight, that would really suck! I flew from Australia to Europe and back on Singapore airlines business class on an award ticket, and had never before purchased a ticket on Singapore Airlines. How could that not be quality? Lastly, I’m flying United in and out of Heathrow in a week. I purchased that ticket separately because I had a special companion coupon. Then I purchased a rountrip ticket on BMi from LHR to AMS. on the return, I have a 3 hour layover in Heathrow, then continue on back home. Even though I have 2 separte tickets/itineraries, I’m going to be able to check my bags all the way through to my final destination when I check in with BMi in Amsterdam. I won’t have to re-check in with UA in Heathrow. How is that not quality?

I stand corrected. I had never seen them in SYD, so I just assumed they didn’t fly there. A few more Euro destination will do them good, then they can steal traffic away from TG, SN and CX.

No different evacuating from the top deck of an A380, than from a 747. I saw that program also, Preston.

The 747 in that picture is a freighter. Not sure if those are still in service? Their passenger 747’s got phased out years ago. While still in service, some of my family flew on an SAS 747 from LAX to ATH via CPH. That was back in ’87.

I would think so. Even on LAX’s website, it has the flight listed only once with an AirTran flight number, with “operated by Ryan International” next to it. Ryan International themselves, however, do not have a flight listing. Usually on a typical codeshare, the operator’s flight number along with any parter’s flight number that codeshares on the flight, will all be listed.