An expanded route network in South America would be most welcome. OW has the edge over *A with a direct flight between Sydney-Santiago de Chile but when it comes to exploring intra-South America, using limited segments of a RTW ticket, *A continues to have the edge.

An interesting point re QoS on the handful of [mainly international] LA flights I've taken over the years: many of the cabin attendants appear to be well educated and look on their job as a career [vs some of the cretins who end up begrudgingly pushing trollies on other OW carriers]. Net effect: happy / professional staff = happy pax.

Also worth mentioning that on trans Pacific/Atlantic flights, I've never seen an empty Y seat on LA...

[This message has been edited by virtualtroy (edited Nov 30, 2003).]