Wings Alliance - What's going on?

What are the benefits of the Wings Alliance? Is it even an alliance yet or simply proposed?

So far it has been proposed and kind of sort of promoted by NW / KL. Essentially it is supposed to build on the NW/CO/KL/HP/AZ alliances. However recently Co and KL have had a disagreement over codeshare and revenue sharing on transatlantic flights. This has delayed further advances in the alliance. So for now things are on hold.

I just read that the delay has a lot more to do with the DOJ lawsuit against NW/CO

Chris--

I missed the news report on the DOJ lawsuit against CO/NW you mentioned. Do you have a link I can go to?

Thanks.

JM, it's not a new lawsuit, it's the government's challenge to the NW ownership stake in CO due to antitrust concerns.

Wings is dying a SLOW death, it seems! http://www.flyertalk.com/forum/frown.gif

Sorry doc, I do not concur with your reasoning. To state "....Wings is dying a SLOW death..." implies it once had a real life. IMHO it never had a life......just a gleam in some nice PR guy's eye.

Agreed!

And now AZ is talking with both SwissAir & AF.
http://www.flyertalk.com/forum/Forum6/HTML/000072.html http://www.flyertalk.com/forum/Forum9/HTML/000014.html http://www.flyertalk.com/forum/Forum40/HTML/000145.html

There is no Wings; there hasn't been any Wings; and there is not likely to be any Wings. That's a disappointment to some of us Northwesters, but the reality is Wings shouldn't even be an ongoing forum of its own here. It's had its chance.

Maybe the name Wings is not formally publicized and branded, but if you look at the alliance that NW/CO/KL has forged, along with all the other partners they share, Wings is in its own right in existence (just without the name).

IMHO, the NW/KL/CO FFP reciprocation is perhaps the best of any alliance in the world, especially NW/KL. In Europe/Africa/MidEast it's under the KLM Flying Dutchman brand while in Asia/NorthAmerica it's under the NW WorldPerks name, with full mileage earning capability.

There is is fact a flight / airline indicator of WG which is intended to be used in the future.

I believe that KLM Cityhopper make use of the WG code on one flight a week in order to "keep it alive / in use".