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Jun 13, 2009 | 4:14 am

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Originally Posted by kebosabi

OW tends to be a Euro-centric alliance. 4 carriers in Europe, but only 2 to cover the whole East Asia region.

Are you for real?

*A is far more Euro centric and if anything, I would say Europe is one of OW's biggest weak spots as there is no strong central Euro carrier within the alliance (MA is definitely not strong!). Both ST and *A have better Euro coverage. [Had BA being more generous to LX, and LX joined OW this would have obviously changed but time has now moved on].

In respect to Asia, OW is arguably better than ST although *A is obviously king in this region.

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