Originally Posted by
DavidJBell
Depends on what you mean by options. While oneworld has less destinations (although more airlines, if you include full and affiliates than sky team, according to wikipedia), it has greater world coverage, covering all continents, whereas the other 2 do not cover australian destinations.
Add to this ST's almost complete lack of South American service.
However, over the next 10 years or so, frankly a large presence in Australia and South America, will be largely overshadowed by the growth in Asian traffic IMHO. For OW to have no presence in the so called "golden triangle" China/Korea/Japan is of serious concern.
OW needs to bed down Jet in India as fast as possible and even more importantly find a Chinese partner - or it will become what SkyTeam was a few years back.
Africa is, as we all know a concern, and here Arik may be an option - now linking London, New York and Johannesburg through its hub in Lagos. Someone also mentioned the improvements being made by TAAG and they would link Europe, South America and Johannesburg.
Then the middle east. While RJ is a great airline, they either need to increase their global visibility or OW need to look at an additional Middle Eastern carrier. I see that QR has extensive code-sharing with *A, so maybe EY, already code-sharing with AA.
Just my thoughts - YMMV