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Old Sep 23, 2003, 1:54 am
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LH738
 
Join Date: Mar 2001
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The brand "Wings alliance" doesn't exist anymore since a long time: officialy there's no Wings alliance. The KLM/Northwest alliance is the base partnership and some partner airlines worked (more or less) with them. Some of these partners have very close connections (e.g. Kenya Airways with KLM) while other partners are rather independant (e.g. Malaysian which started codeshares with Garuda recently). Therefore it won't happen that these partners will be folded as a whole into SkyTeam. It will be more an airline by airline decission: which airline is invited to join and which airline then actually joins? It may happen that we see many of these partner airlines in SkyTeam. All of them (e.g. Kenya Airways, Malaysian, China Southern, Alaska Air, TAM, Malev) would enlarge the SkyTeam network significantly. I'd be glad to see these airlines in SkyTeam.

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