Originally Posted by
Kiwi Flyer
There are other European OW options to avoid UK transits as would be required with BA (IB, AY, S9, RJ at a pinch).
but they are all at the ends of the European continent
no one in the middle like AB...
but you are right the full advantage of AB will only be seen if OW carriers stary flying to Brussels- CX/MH/JL
like CX and JL did to Moscow when S7 joined
going inter Europe it is a pain to have to go to a European end point -LHR/MAD/DME/AMM to say fly from France to Poland or Austria to Poland etc