Originally posted by: quakershaker
i took swissair last month (to israel no less!)
it was outstanding. i would stick with swissair. airindia is pretty safe but according to aircraftdisasters.com any airline that is NOT in the first world has a much higher accident rate (i.e. something like 1 in 6,000,000 crash for first world airlines... 1 in 2,000,000 crash for third world airlines....).
think about all the crashes you hear about... most of them are for POS airlines in the middle of nowhere (i.e. today's air algeria crash).
go with swiss air. very good service.