Based on my own experience with airlines I can recommend:

Emirates,
JAL,
Air New Zealand,
Quantas,
Alitalia,
United, ( because they once gave me an upgrade for no discernable reason. )

Airlines I have no opinion of either way:
British Airways,
Aer Lingus,
Air Pacific,
Garuda,
Continental,
Scot Air,
Virgin Blue.

Airlines that I would only fly on as a last resort:

Monarch,
American, ( are they still going ?)
Ryan Air,
Easyjet.

To be fair, the last 2 are British based, budget airlines which mainly cover Europe. If you want an incredibly cheap ticket which will take you from one obscure provincial airfield, miles from your start point to another, even more obscure, fly blown, provincial airfield, even farther away, ( possibly in a completely seperate country! ), from your destination with a better than evens chance that your checked luggage will end up somewhere completely different, then these are the guys for you!

An International Air safety expert was once asked where was the best place to sit on a modern airliner. He pondered the question carefully for several moments before replying, " Taking in all the relevant factors of passenger survival rates over innumerable air crashes that I have investigated, I would have to say that the best place to sit on a modern aircraft is..............................................





























First Class!"