Originally Posted by
IC6A
It is also beyond me why MU choose to join SkyTeam while they have FFP cooperation with CX,JL,QF and codeshare with AA,BA,JL,QF while their SkyTeam partner at this moment only limited to DL and codeshare one route with AF...

A leaf out of the AS book where you can be a partner with many and varied alliance members but not actually get into bed with them. Seems to work very well for them.