Originally Posted by
chongcao
It is not AR's decision. The decision comes from Delta. Apparently Dalta is investing $10Million with Gol. Unlike oneworld where Cathay can firmly object Hainan's application. In SkyTeam if AF or DL want someone to join in, other airlines have not much say.
I wasn't talking about Gol or Brazil.
I meant that if LATAM went with SkyTeam (as someone suggested as one possibility in a previous post in this thread), then it would mean that both "major" intra-Argentina arilines (LAN Argentina and AR) would both be in SkyTeam.
And I thus wondered why Argentina wouldn't mind two major Argentian airlines in the same alliance (SkyTeam), if other countries around them won't let LATAM and another airline both be in Star Alliance.
IOTW, my point is that SkyTeam doesn't seem like any better legal alternative to OneWorld than Star Alliance, because OneWorld is the
only one of the three alliances that doesn't present LATAM with another major airline in the same alliance in any of their base countries.