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Jal
All I can say about JAL is that I would fly them anywhere, anytime. I am a commercial pilot in my other life. For eight months I refuelled airliners at McCarran Int'l in Las Vegas. Don't laugh! Most pilots have more hours on fuel trucks than they do aircraft. Anyway, to refuel their 747 (or any plane, presumably) you have to complete an eight-hour company course. Then a company mechanic is in the basket with you approving every finger-flick. And that is just to pump their gas. Their First Officer course is (I am told) nine months long. And the instructors walk around class with these whip things which they use to enforce a studious attitude.
Their security around their aircraft falls into the "machine gun" category. Not literally but darn close. I asked the company mechanic if I could see the cockpit. It took him about half an hour to get the necessary approvals before he handed me a badge.
Last... but certainly not least... the are not bound but the US's PC-phobia. IOW, their stewardesses are cookie-cutter gorgeous. Petite, cute Asian faces, demur. I almost married a couple on the ramp.
Hope this sheds some light on your predicament.
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