Originally Posted by
Xiaotung
I imagine if SA was liquidated, their membership would also terminate by default. If a new airline was born, it would need to re-apply for membership and the Star board would need to vote again.
Of course no airline has in the history of alliances entered into insolvency and restructured to remain in the alliance. Chapter 11 is special and doesn't count.
Which is purely asinine frankly. If an airline is picked up quickly (say in a week or two) from the ashes, and wants to continue in the alliance (at the applicable cost as usual) then they should be able to. That airline alliance is something valuable to a new investor to rescue the very recently collapsed airline. There really should be a grace period on that to help draw in a new suitor.
Originally Posted by
LondonElite
A joke airline if there ever was one. Will they be missed?
Avianca? Seriously? Everyone I know in Peru, at least, says the same about LATAM and to fly Avianca whenever possible, not speaking only domestic routes, AV Peru also had an extensive international network. Really sad though from Peru was Trans American then TACA. Avianca absorbed all the TACA airlines and then shït on them solidly now. Precisely why these mega trans-national airlines should not exist.