Originally Posted by
kiwiandrew
I would love to see OW make a concerted effort to lure in MH who seem to be constantly spurned by Skyteam . A multihub strategy of KUL/HKG/NRT ( assuming that OW can hang on to JL) seems a good start for improving OW Asian coverage . If Kingfisher survive the next year or so they would probably be a good addition too ... they are already on the Global Explorer fare and that is often a precursor to OW membership .
It is all very well for OW to trumpet their 'quality over quantity' message ( with IB in the alliance ? please !! ) but the point remains that they serve only around 70% of the cities that *A serves , and if your business requires you to regularly visit those cities which are missing from the OW map , or to do multi-city itineraries in Asia then OW is never going to get your business .
I too think MH would be a good fit with OW, both from coverage and service. I don't view IB as being that bad. Flew with them intra Europe and long haul lin business last year and thought they were OK. Intra-Europe business was better than LH, AF and BA. Long haul business was in angled lie flat seats - not much different from AF and LH, or the older MH aircraft.