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Apr 24, 2012 | 10:49 am

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phillystudent

Join Date: Jun 2011

Location: Philadelphia, PA

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Originally Posted by PVDtoDEL

Right, not joining an alliance allows them to work with everyone. As long as there is no other competition that is part of another alliance, 9W basically has the entire international FF market.

If IT or AI join an alliance, then suddenly 9W can't work with their alliance partners. That will make it more advantageous to be an alliance member. As long as everyone in India is unaligned, alliance membership without a ATI/JV type agreement would not be particularly better for 9W.

Thanks; that makes sense. Based on that logic, then, the benefit for the other alliance-based airline (say... AA) to partner up with Jet would be the (theoretical) ability for their customers to redeem miles on 9W and also to earn AAdvantage miles when flying on 9W?

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