<font face="Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif" size="2">It will be difficult for airlines with much weaker alliances (CO, NW, US, DL, etc.) to match this and they may lose some high-revenue fares to UA and AA over this.
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I thought that the new DL/NW/CO alliance can take you to just as many places as star and Oneworld can.