Originally Posted by
garykung
HU has a significant interest at HX, which is CX's competitor in HKG. Regardless on how the competition is, if HU join OW, it will make the relationship awkward.
Also as many CX's traffic are from the Mainland, a OW partner in the Mainland will definitely impact CX revenue.
I don't think HX is much of a direct competitor to CX/KA - it is much more of an LCC - and, I might add, therefore somewhat at odds with oneworld's aim to be the premier alliance for people travelling on business (note - "on", not "in")
As to making the relationship awkward, or impacting revenue - I am not so sure. After all, the entry of QR into OW potentially threatened the incumbents' Europe-Asia traffic, yet BA sponsored their entry and CX immediately set up extensive code-sharing.