In the non-pointy end of the plane, I find United slightly less annoying than American... though the only reason I can think of is that American has a really an

In the non-pointy end of the plane, I find United slightly less annoying than American... though the only reason I can think of is that American has a really annoying tune which they play with their safety announcements, whereas United has some nice Gershwin. That may not seem like a big deal to you, but... I'm over-sensitive to annoying music. My personal order of preference is Virgin, Southwest, drive, train, ride donkey, United, American, walk.