excellent news, coming as it is straight from horse's mouth (AA) and not from any unsubstantiated rumour. Let's hope now it is a beginning of a trend towards closing OW gaps in Asia, also let us reminder that AA/OW still has bigger fish to fry there (again until exhaustion: MU, MH...).
The only concern is the financial situation of Kingfisher, that as far as I recall is not really solid. Mallya some months ago was trying to sell up to 49% of the company to foreign investors, and it may be assumed that AA with its war chest from JL battle can put some of it to that use.
Also, i would like a deeper cooperation and invitation to 9W. This would effectively shut out ST from India and a sweet revenge against DL.