Originally Posted by
alex0683de
This is actually a really great idea, especially since *A has another hub coming online in ATH in the not-too-distant future when Aegean joins this year.
I'm sure you could make it work on the corporate side as far as Turkish and Egyptair are concerned. I don't know about Aegean though - they're a small-ish airline, so I don't know what sort of resources (financial and otherwise) they have available for something like this.
Why thank you, sir.
Regarding the small size of Aegean, I would submit the following: maintenance hangars and bag sort facilities all start to look the same. I for one, would love to see Aegean do something along the lines of SAS and do a presentation...but here's the catch. Up to the point of confidentiality concerns, I'd like to hear from their executives about the process of joining Star. The back end of integration, rescheduling, what actually happens once you sign the MOU to join. I want to be taken through that process, and Aegean is just small enough that such a talk could be kept to a reasonable length and still be made interesting, and what I don't want to hear is "We chose Star because of the seamless connections and ease of status recognition blah blah blah". I want (and I think some others here would) a real nuts and bolts lecture on the logistics of joining an alliance. There's also the aspect to their operations of switching to the new Athens airport.