Originally Posted by
worldwidedreamer
Let's not forget that Delta went bankrupt about a decade ago, yet remained in SkyTeam. Over the course of history, periodic insolvency seems like part of the airline game. Not sure about the language/jurisdictions/etc. of the contract, but would assume that the JV contract was not standard paper.
One, DL is founding member of ST. Two, DL is major member. While by no means as small as say Czech, AZ is a very small member of ST. Its main benefit to ST being smaller Italian cities. Three, while bankrupt, DL didn't have some of the underlying issues that AZ does.