Originally Posted by
jcelio
I agree with this... LA has been trying to enter the brazilian market to not avail to set up similar operations as they have in Peru, Ecuador and Argentina... it is much tighter and harder market to get into... CONTINENTAL I believe still has a 10% stake in COPA from Panama and still as ONEPASS as their FF program but is not part of *A rather still remains as an associate SkyT member... so all combinations are possible...
http://www.skyteam.com/about/carriers/copaairlines.html
CO no longer has any ownership stake in CM. That being said, CM still uses OnePass as its FF program and it exists in many ways as bizaro-world CO. CM did follow CO out of SkyTeam and will likely join *A eventually though I do not believe a formal application has been made.
Originally Posted by
sdsearch
Except that there is no such entity as OW. OW is simply an agreement between individual airlines. So it's only individual airlines within OW that can do some action (not OW itself).
So exactly which OW airlines should squash this how?
Not true. OneWorld may not be an airline but it is an actual organization dedicated to marketing and promoting the alliance, just like SkyTeam and Star Alliance are organizations. They can coordinate press releases of member parties or even from the organization itself.