Originally Posted by
headingwest
A couple of years ago I noticed that Wikipedia listed Olympic as being a Star Alliance member, I subsequently removed that from the page. Recently I checked again and somebody has wrote that it's a Star Alliance affiliate. I believe that is also incorrect.
I can understand why this catches so many people out.
You're right, very misleading, but unfortunately Star Alliance does not define "affiliate" in their site (at least, I couldn't find anything about it).