Aegean leaving star alliance? [Old AusBT forum rumour]
Jun 10, 2017, 10:27 pm
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Aegean leaving star alliance? [Old AusBT forum rumour]
Hello, on the AusBt (Australian Business Traveller) forum there is talk of Aegean leaving Star Alliance. Can anyone confirm?
Also, it is my understanding all domestic flights are now Olympic coded (OA) but Aegean operated, and therefore Star Alliance status is not honoured. Can some also confirm this please?
Thank you in advance!
Also, it is my understanding all domestic flights are now Olympic coded (OA) but Aegean operated, and therefore Star Alliance status is not honoured. Can some also confirm this please?
Thank you in advance!
Jun 11, 2017, 1:25 am
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Jun 11, 2017, 3:01 am
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Indeed, there's been no real talk of Aegean leaving Star Alliance. And please note that this isn't an actual AusBT article but a relatively anonymous user posting on a forum. Big difference, and should be treated accordingly.
Last edited by djsflynn; Jun 12, 2017 at 3:11 am
Jun 11, 2017, 3:05 am
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I find this to be a very strange story. The 'Athens station manager' has told this tourist from Australia that 'Aegean will leave *A soon' because of (non) status recognition on domestic flights?
Lets start with the beginning...how would anybody talk to the 'Athens station manager' if such role even exists? This is not some outstation, but the main hub with hundreds of Aegean flights per day..
Lets start with the beginning...how would anybody talk to the 'Athens station manager' if such role even exists? This is not some outstation, but the main hub with hundreds of Aegean flights per day..
Jun 11, 2017, 3:27 am
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Jun 12, 2017, 4:10 am
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As others have pointed out, you have no need to be concerned at the moment. This story pops up from time to time, perhaps as the AusBT story comes to the top of search lists, but as far as anyone knows there's absolutely no truth in it whatsoever - it's much more likely someone at AusBT made 2+2=5.
The thread title has been amended to reflect what now appears to be the source.
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The thread title has been amended to reflect what now appears to be the source.
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Jun 12, 2017, 6:06 pm
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Mods, would you consider changing the title of this thread to reflect that this is not an "AusBT rumour" per se?
It's a rumour from a forum on the Australian Business Traveller site but I'd suggest that pretty much everybody considers AusBT as being the news website, the publisher of articles which are researched and considered and not driven by rumour. We don't do just 'rumours' in our reporting.
Perhaps the title could be tweaked to simply be "Aegean leaving star alliance? [old rumour]" ?
Thanks in advance for the consideration...
It's a rumour from a forum on the Australian Business Traveller site but I'd suggest that pretty much everybody considers AusBT as being the news website, the publisher of articles which are researched and considered and not driven by rumour. We don't do just 'rumours' in our reporting.
Perhaps the title could be tweaked to simply be "Aegean leaving star alliance? [old rumour]" ?
Thanks in advance for the consideration...
Jun 12, 2017, 8:03 pm
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Aegean leaving Star Alliance [old rumour]
Sorry if any confusion was caused. For the record, as djsflynn said, this was purely a rumour by a user of AusBT's FORUM. It was not an article or any formal piece of writing. I think rumours like this go around quite often but as I said it is simply forum chatter with no evidence supporting the comments.
Mods, would you consider changing the title of this thread to reflect that this is not an "AusBT rumour" per se?
It's a rumour from a forum on the Australian Business Traveller site but I'd suggest that pretty much everybody considers AusBT as being the news website, the publisher of articles which are researched and considered and not driven by rumour. We don't do just 'rumours' in our reporting.
Perhaps the title could be tweaked to simply be "Aegean leaving star alliance? [old rumour]" ?
Thanks in advance for the consideration...
It's a rumour from a forum on the Australian Business Traveller site but I'd suggest that pretty much everybody considers AusBT as being the news website, the publisher of articles which are researched and considered and not driven by rumour. We don't do just 'rumours' in our reporting.
Perhaps the title could be tweaked to simply be "Aegean leaving star alliance? [old rumour]" ?
Thanks in advance for the consideration...
Jun 13, 2017, 5:55 am
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I'm aware from RBPs that there is a view out there that this thread should be closed because it is speculative.
However, if we applied that criteria, there probably wouldn't be much left on FT
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There is no rule breach here in raising it, the title now accurately reflects the source, it's a question rather than a statement, so there's no reason to close the thread.
The best way to make threads disappear is not to fuel any fire by contributing further to them @:-)
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However, if we applied that criteria, there probably wouldn't be much left on FT
.There is no rule breach here in raising it, the title now accurately reflects the source, it's a question rather than a statement, so there's no reason to close the thread.
The best way to make threads disappear is not to fuel any fire by contributing further to them @:-)
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