Originally Posted by
MSPeconomist
Could Ed Bastian be in the early stages of starting his own alliance group: DL, AF/KLM, KE, MU, VA, VS, AM, now LATAM.......This covers a lot of the world pretty well, and would seem to leave VN, AZ, SU, SV, and a few others (as well as GOL, sadly) in the dust of what was SkyTeam.
He confirmed on the call today that Delta is still prepared to invest $100M for 10% of AZ, so they're still part of Ed's world. But yes, it does seem Delta is taking the cream of SkyTeam and turning it into the Delta alliance.