Originally Posted by
CO FF
There is significant benefit to OW from an alliance-wide link with B6.
I don't see this as anything where OW is special compared to the other two alliances.
Originally Posted by
CO FF
JFK -- the premier East Coast gateway; almost every OW airline is here
Ditto for *A and ST.
Originally Posted by
CO FF
BOS -- BA & IB serve BOS, and would benefit from B6 feed
This may be the only city where OW has more than the others. That being said, KL and AF have flights into BOS. So does LH.
Originally Posted by
CO FF
IAD -- connections to big leisure destinations CUN, FLL & MCO
Connections from who? The BA flight?
Originally Posted by
CO FF
MCO -- served by BA & MX
And many other carriers, like LH. Plus, the MX feed into MCO seems less useful to me than the BA for onwards connections. What options does B6 offer via MCO that AA doesn't via DFW and MIA or that MX doesn't have natively?
Originally Posted by
CO FF
SFO -- incremental additional feed for JL & CX to NRT/HKG (esp. to AUS?)
B6 has barely any lift in SFO. I cannot see the AUS-SFO feed as justifying an alliance.
Originally Posted by
CO FF
More importantly, in the Northeast, B6 feeding AA/OW at JFK would be at the expense of US feeding *A and DL's feed for itself/ST.
US has barely any feed at JFK. UA has a bit. *A is mostly O/D there and that is why LH - which also has decent lift in JFK - got the codeshare/interline agreement in place with B6. Just like the one AA just signed.