Originally Posted by
BlackBerryAddict
Not a bad article, actually. But I think it is time for the US airlines (and especially American) to smell the coffee with cardamom.
Trying to fight the ME3 (and Turkish) is going to be a pointless exercise, doomed to fail. I think AA should simple accept QR (and ditch Gulf Air which has lost the battle anyway) and together with BA,IB and AY include QR in the transatlantic JV. In that way they will have a much stronger position against others - be they Star, Skyteam, Norwegian or Emirates.
Does Qatar even want to be in the joint venture?
The "if you can't fight them, join them" thing seems quite self-contradictory in this scenario. If Qatar can out-compete AA etc., why would it want to join the JV and therefore hand over a share of their profits to them? (Assuming my understanding of how joint ventures work is correct anyway)