Originally Posted by
ashill
Umm, IB and BA are 100% owned by the same parent company, just like JQ/QF and KA/CX. However, BA and IB are both full service airlines (that just have different home base airports), whereas JQ and KA are each low-cost counterparts of their parent, full-service airlines. JQ in particular doesn't participate in any frequent flyer programmes except QF's. So I think it's more strange that IB is and BA isn't. Though the BA/AS partnership long predates the BA/IB backroom merger.
You're right, i was forgetting about IAG. For some reason i was thinking it was part of the JV. The BA agreement being so old does explain it who one would be there and one would not.
When it comes to QF, I was referring to Qantas JetConnect. It would be nice to get JetStar though as it would make the number of destinations jump.