LY CEO: Can't Join Alliance Because We're Jewish
Apr 8, 2012, 2:02 pm
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Not everything on FT is an argument 
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The semantics are important. A bilateral partnership is a partnership that can always just end. It's only between 2 airlines, and LY is then forced to make lots of relationships. An alliance makes LY a part of a group automatically
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The semantics are important. A bilateral partnership is a partnership that can always just end. It's only between 2 airlines, and LY is then forced to make lots of relationships. An alliance makes LY a part of a group automatically
I still don't get why non-alliance members in any of the big three global airline alliances would care about the relationship between LY's home state or the home state's national religion and others when there is no clarity that LY's participation in any of the big 3 global airline alliances necessarily comes with any negative retaliation from any state that already has an airline in one of the Big 3.
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Apr 8, 2012, 2:05 pm
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Apr 8, 2012, 2:53 pm
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Alliances include "bilateral partnerships". Think about some of the car company alliances -- bilateral partnerships are a subset of alliances in that industry too. Think about KLM and Northwest from last decade. Bilateral partnerships may widen into a bigger alliance than a bilateral partnership but LY hasn't done much of anything in deepening relationships so as to get reciprocal benefit arrangements when it comes to loyalty program elites and elite benefits for partner-network-wide benefits even on a bilateral alliance basis.
I still don't get why non-alliance members in any of the big three global airline alliances would care about the relationship between LY's home state or the home state's national religion any others when there is no clarity that LY's participation in any of the big 3 global airline alliances necessarily comes with any negative retaliation from any state that already has an airline in one of the Big 3.
yosithezet wasn't referring to the AS/LY relationship - he was referring to AS's relationships in general and LY's relationships in general. AS and LY have no relationship with each other.
Apr 8, 2012, 4:05 pm
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The term alliance has been used in many instances to describe the relationship between just two airlines. There is no "written in stone" definition that dictates it only be used when referring to the big three.
Apr 8, 2012, 6:21 pm
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Apr 12, 2012, 2:33 am
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Apr 12, 2012, 3:02 am
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The various Virgin branded airlines and one or two of the bigger long-haul-flying Middle East airlines could pull off another major multi-airline global alliance with a route network covering at least four continents. Otherwise there is always Ryanair and Southwest, but they don't seem like the kind to want to engage in such entanglements.
Apr 12, 2012, 6:03 am
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el al
shkadi should listen to the song
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YVBvy2cc0Io
without flying on 7 days a week it wont get el al near an alliance.
elal needs to focus on making a profit now and not on crying about lcc and alliances.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YVBvy2cc0Io
without flying on 7 days a week it wont get el al near an alliance.
elal needs to focus on making a profit now and not on crying about lcc and alliances.
Apr 13, 2012, 2:08 am
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I was going to mention some sort of LCC alliance, but the trouble with that is the lack of any trans-oceanic LCC carrier to link the various networks. WN and FR can partner all they want, but they can't truly codeshare.