Originally Posted by
adambrau
I could be wrong but UA and SQ have never had a close relationship, whereas most of the bigger *A carriers have. It's a shame in a way because both have a lot to offer one another, but clearly there is some sort of disconnect. But as your example of AC funneling its pax thru HKG onto CX makes sense on a geographical and pax case, its weakens the case of the existence of alliances!
And AC just signed a codeshare with VA.
Maybe the alliance "marriages" aren't keeping everyone happy and now some players are dating others on the side.
It will also be interesting moving forward as when AC pax connect in HKG to SIN, the original 2 alliance options were SQ and UA (unless you want BR via TPE etc).
Now that UA is eliminating the 5th Freedoms, SQ can raise prices on connections.