Originally Posted by
jamar
It could be, although if we use another airline merger as an example (AA/US), one thing that people might get worried about is OZ exiting Star early. US Airways exited Star Alliance to join Oneworld a couple of years before their FFP was fully merged with AA's, so OZ being pulled out of *A to join Skyteam a couple years before the FFP merges into Skypass would affect some people's redemption options (no full Japan partner, trading TG and SQ for VN and GA and the entire LH family for AF/KL/OK, etc).
This is exactly my concern. I don't doubt that a merger would take a long time to complete, but OZ could exit *A a lot earlier than the completion of the merger.