Originally Posted by
SwissexLUG
The fact that Star wants LAN is nothing surprising, but I think Star blew its chances by allowing TACA-Avianca in. There's no way LATAM and TACA-Avianca will be in the same alliance. The Central & South American authorities will never allow this because it means no competition from the southern Mexican border to Argentina.
I would not be surprised to read that oneworld wants TAM either. Hopefully Star is making noise, as DL/Skyteam did with JL, while oneworld is working behind the scenes to get TAM in.
For the sake of OW you'd hope that's the case. If they lost LAN, and with Mexicana almost gone, the only major non-aligned carrier left in Latin America is GOL, who may decide to either stay that way or slot into the SkyTeam arc of DL-AM-AR.