Originally Posted by
HIDDY
LH are welcome to buy TAP. I don't see the IAG interest in them being a serious one despite my earlier tongue in cheek comment.
All they can offer IAG is lot of routes to Brazil mainly used by the leisure market and nowt much else.
If LATAM definitely stays in OW, I just don't see how the EU will approve of IAG buying TP. It will give OW and insane amount of pricing power from the Iberian peninsula to S America. Combining AA, LATAM, IB and TP would be nearly monopolistic.