Originally Posted by
zhaobao
Oh dear - codeshare with a OneWorld airline. This almost sounds like taking a successful business and damaging it yourself rather than via any external factors, like a self-fulfilling fallacy.
If a traveller is simply price or time conscious, there are alternatives. So are TK/ET/QR/EK/SQ all taking business away from SA for Brazil to Asia ? (Which is the chicken and which is the egg here ?)
They had a bilateral codeshare with JJ since before SA were *A, why is there a problem with that?
Some travelers may to time/price conscious, others might have other calculus.