Originally Posted by
PMMMDL
This entire premise is horse crap.
I am top tier in all three of the major alliances.
ST, *A, and OW all have good and poor carriers.
Malev and Iberia are not exactly top tier products, in fact, BA is not that great anymore. The food in QF's longhaul F was terrible 3 weeks ago.
I am convinced that those who insist on proclaiming the qualitative superiority of one alliance over another have very little comparitive experience to base their opinions.
Couldn't have said it better myself. I always laugh when people proclaim certain alliance is better than the other. Besides MA and IB, RJ is not a very good airline either and it is in OW.
*A also has its fair share of bad airlines as well - CA, UA, US, MS, JK, TP, and SN to name a few.