Originally Posted by
CXBA
one often overlooked possible member could be Air Mauritius, although small and based on the middle of Indian Ocean, it nevertheless has connections to many African and Indian cities, and would be useful to cover another OW black spot. Given the historical ties between Mauritius and France it is at the moment aligned with AF, but with a little persuasion can be possibly made to switch to OW.
Many African cities ?
Currently MK flies to only 4 cities on the mainland JNB ( daily ) , CPT ( 2 x weekly ), DUR ( 1 x weekly )and NBO ( 1 x weekly ) . For OW JNB is already served by BA from LHR , QF from SYD , IB from MAD and CX from HKG . NBO and CPT are both served from LHR by BA . DUR along with CPT is also served from JNB several times daily by BA franchise carrier Comair ( who also compete with MK on the JNB-MRU route ) .
So far as I can see MK would add only four destinations to the OW map - TNR in Madagascar , St Denis and St Pierre in Reunion and Rodrigues in Mauritius . All nice to have , but hardly major destinations in their own right .
As for the 4 cities served in India ( MAA/BLR/DEL/BOM ) , between them they get a total of 6 flights per week last time I checked .
Sorry , it is an interesting suggestion , but I dont really see MK having much to offer OW .