At the beginning of this week, Virgin Blue Airlines Group also strengthened its relationship with Virgin Atlantic - http://www.velocityrewards.com.au/co...ntic/index.htm. Both now offering reciprocal elite benefits.

Fingers crossed though, that DJ's final play is for Sky Team: if so, it would make Sky Team the only alliance with a member offering domestic services in Australia & New Zealand. (Limiting Oneworld to QF domestic in Australia and Star Alliance to NZ domestic in New Zealand.)

Noting that - SQ’s (co-investment) Tiger (TT) offers domestic in Australia & QF’s Jetstar (JQ) offers domestic in New Zealand.