According to what I read in a German newspaper today, it's not really about a merger, but they are considering buying some, say 10% of each other's shares and are thinking about deepening their relationship. We will see what the outcome will be. Maybe (this is my private guess now) it's going to develop into something similar to the EK/QF cooperation, a potential BA/Qatar cooperation within OW, and what AFKL have just started with EY. In this context some deeper cooperation between LH and TK would absolutely make sense.