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Old May 22, 2013, 8:46 pm
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Originally Posted by themapelligroup
Which will Qatar's role be once they join in your opinion? Al Baker always wants to be the protagonist of everything he does, so I think he can play a central role on recruiting an airline in Africa and maybe India.

For what concerns China I think there are still too many obstacles at this moment: a good approach from oneworld's members could be adding Chinese destinations to their networks (BA and AY are focusing on it) and see what happens in ST between MU and CZ
Al-Baker is trying to pull a stunt that, if successful would have huge repercussions among the alliances, trying to convince EK to merge with QR. I don't know about the chances, but if it happens i guess OW will have a lot of traction in quite a lot of countries. Finger crossed...
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