qwertyuiop is correct.
You said:
Originally Posted by
AN_Boy
And Virgin Australia's CEO has publicly stated that it is unlikeyl they would join star and that skyteam was a possibility IF they were to look at alliances.
But the quotation does not say that it is unlikely that they would join *A. It simply says that one would be mistaken to assume that *A is the obvious choice. You cannot necessarily deduce the former from the latter.