While each alliance probably will end up with an Indian carrier, with the financial troubles of Kingfisher and Air India I think timeframes are likely to be more than a couple of months.
Originally Posted by
rathin100
Anyway I have no wish to enter into an argument on the merits of relative alliances. Some people must be happy with Skyteam otherwise it would cease to exist Im just trying to point out that when people express a reason for preferring their favourite airlines NOT to be in Skyteam -- and there are many here-- but dont see such grumbling about OW and Star, its not without a logical basis. The only people who feel negatively about Skyteam are not misinformed rare flyers. There are reasons and good ones to make such a judgement They are clearly not compelling ones for everyone but dismissing them with arguments such as ""what is a flatbed anyway"" or ""only people who dont fly frequently assume that SQ QR CX Asiana (for example) are not rated as top service airlines globally"" sounds like a bad case of Stockholm syndrome to me.
It may surprise you to realise that there are well informed frequent flyers such as myself who have a veritable laundry list of reasons to avoid Star Alliance. Perhaps because we don't post them in the Star Alliance forum and then accuse Star fans of suffering from a psychological ailment.