[I am Richard Brandon]

"It requires a bump up to business class or better on Singapore Airlines, but a similar experience can be had.

Try Cathay Pacific or indeed, any airline that can avoid the PC crap that is being forced down the throats of US based airlnes. An interesting side comment, those early stus were pretty young women and h......... men. Got good attentive service from all of them!

[katana]

Nearly any of the Pacific Rim based airlines (consciously excluding Qantas - used to be 90% flamingly gay and overtly rude males on their trans-pacific routes - and ANZ - good but no comparison with the Asians) provide a level of service which American and European lines can only dream of. But I still have to rate SQ as top of the top.

There are some European carriers that seem to realize most of their travelers are men and select their flight attendants accordingly. I recently was on a series of flights into, around, and back from Greece on Aegean Airlines. The flight attendants all looked like 19 year old aspiring models (e.g. quasi-anorexic) but very pretty and polite. Not much good in a flight emergency, but in such an event you're about 99.9% unlikely to get any flotation use out of your seat cushion anyway.

I know what some of you are going to say ... yes, I'm a sexist swine.