Originally Posted by
LarkSFO
UA is preparing to announce their partnership with AS, to be initiated immediately after the AS / DL partnership ends.
They certainly are not. There would be no strategic balance, cross-feed, etc. in AS-UA. What AS needs from partnerships is national coverage where AS doesn't go (and UA has nothing going in the Southeast) and international mile-earning options (which AS has well-covered with BA, EK, CX, KE, QF, AF, KL, AM, and LA -- any of which most people would prefer to fly over UA). UA has no international routes anymore from SEA, so they'd hardly replace DL, and shrinking domestic coverage ex-SEA. Literally, UA has nothing to offer AS.