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Old Sep 5, 2017, 10:44 am
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milypan
 
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Originally Posted by 98103
The only other VX partners out there besides SQ are:

VA - already has extensive agreement with DL
HA - Too much overlap, and beyond HI is largely covered by other partners.
EK - Already an AS partner

Even though it won't bring much, I'd like to see them staple on Thomas Cook UK.
MU, CZ, and CI are all VX codeshare, but not Elevate, partners. Until now, for AS being a codeshare partner was necessary and sufficient for being a mileage partner.

All three of those are ST, but MU has a variety of partners outside ST as well. Thus it might be the most likely of the three to become a partner (but I wouldn't hold my breath).
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