Cathay Pacific Asia Miles - CX weighs KA Codeshare

The Asian Wall Street Journal of Jan 15 reports that CX "indicated it could enter a codesharing agreement with KA and drop a plan to compete on KA's HKG-China routes.

"We have received from Dragonair some ideas, which we are studying", a CX spokeswoman said. " (...) HKG's Standard newspaper reported that Dragonair had offered CX a fully fledged, unconditional codeshare deal on its China flights if the bigger carrier withdrew its application to fly to Beijing, Shanghai and Xiamen. (...) Dragonair is 25% owned by Cathay and its parent, Swire Pacific."

IMHO Economics notwithstanding, a full codeshare with KA seems a very desirable solution.

It's only very desirable to me if Dragonair also joins OneWorld and hence gives a means for using OneWorld Explorer and similar tickets into China.

that is diplomatic reply to KA's proposal.

i believe cx wants to OPERATE those flights

<font face="Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif" size="2">Originally posted by christep:
It's only very desirable to me if Dragonair also joins OneWorld and hence gives a means for using OneWorld Explorer and similar tickets into China.</font>

Agreed. For the less-RTW inclined amongst us, it would be great just to get bloody status miles for the ever more frequent China trip.

Pegasus believes CX wants to operate these flights. I am not so sure. A sensible revenue sharing model with a 1/4 subsidiary might be more profitable than having to setup the whole mainland operation and facing all the other state-funded/aided, crony competitors, methinks.