FM has been bought by MU, it will have to leave *A very soon (12-18 mth). CX/KA do not have significant impact on domestic Chinese traffic.

Personally, after visiting China for 10 years I found go through HKG today is unnecessary and unreasonablely expensive. For any business person to visit mainland China, PEK and PVG are the main hub.

Skyteam now has the best deal in China with both CZ and MU (incl. FM) onboard. Both CZ and MU are building PEK as their second hub, this will be a significant development for *A and Oneworld.

I am afraid Oneworld is going to lose out in Asia Pacific with the JAL crisis and development in mainland China. I believe Oneworld has done a lot in early stage trying to convince MU, but the CX/CA link made all these impossble.