Are you guys living in another decade? This is better than that? Let's be real here in comparing alliances, breaking them down airline or region to region, they are much the same (bad) as eachother, Compare the US carriers, DL, UA, AA, etc are much the same as eachother in terms of service. Throw in the now additional US carriers into the mix (US in *, CO and NW in ST), and ST gets the advantage in terms of flights and options. Europe? As much as I hate AF, they are the worst, yet still big and KLM IMHO is an okay airline, I rate LH pretty low and while BA is the best of that bunch, they have gotten worse and worse. All in all Star has the slight advantage here when the smaller Euro carriers are thrown in. Africa? SAA will at some point come into *, no date given yet and then that will be an advantage. In Asia ST and * have the advantage as SQ and Thai beat out CX in 1world and all are better than KE. Star wins basically through options and diversity with the two carriers, if MH goes ST, this will put them up the charts. Australia... 1world is there and no one else (for all 20 million of them) ANZ is in actual fact a tiny airline that seems bigger because they have big planes that do long routes .

In short it seems to me that the proper order is *,1w,ST.