Originally Posted by
flyingcrazy
Are Air Berlin and S7 high quality airlines?
Don't know. But they appear (a) to be stable and (b) to add substantial network coverage in mainland Europe as well as Russia + most of the *fillintheblank*-stans that aren't currently covered by the existing members. So there's value/relevance there. Same goes for Malaysian (in SE Asia), and although it's been 20+ years since I flew them last, I understand they are a pretty decent outfit.
They certainly appear to be several notches above AI.