Originally Posted by
eponymous_coward
OW and EK are not exactly best buddies. It's also likely that AS as a regional airline would have to be sponsored by someone like AA, who could easily make "cut EK" a condition of sponsorship. And having options to get to Europe that don't expose you to BA fuel scamcharges are nice (DL, AF, KL).
Realistically though, it takes an obscene amount of miles to get on DL and I haven't seen pretty much any AF/KL availability.