Originally Posted by
Akiestar
What I don't like is an airline joining an alliance so that its role would be merely to feed the strong neighboring airline, rather than be given an incentive to induce organic growth.
* and ST have always strived to overlap routes/destinations almost everywhere, while OW has the less overlap. Anyway none of the three alliances would do any benefit to PR, given the size of the local market and the penetration of the neighboring airlines already in an alliance. PR would rather do better code sharing with as many as possible, or perhaps considering a tie with a Mid-East carrier acting as a local point-to-point carrier.