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Oct 20, 2015, 1:19 am

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Worcester

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Originally Posted by DWFI

Oneworld needs Royal Air Maroc and Hainan to fill their enormous gaps in Africa and China.

Royal Air Maroc can cover west Africa, Comair has southern Africa, and Qatar can provide decent coverage in the eastern portion of the continent. RAM is a great, high quality airline and would be an excellent asset.

Hainan is pretty much the largest non-affiliated carrier in China at this point and it would be good to have.

I'd also love to see WestJet, Interjet, or Air Tahiti Nui but I think those are less important.

Aer Lingus will obviously be joining in the near future, probably along with Vueling.

I don't think Vueling will join it is based on an LCC model (point to point travel and all extras paid for) which I don't think will fit too well with OW. Vueling does not need to join as most of it's routes are codes shares with BA and/or IB.

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