Regional focused leisure? How so? They have consolidated their international 787 routes from YYC and have plans for Asia and Europe. The have paused acquiring more 787’s to focus on building up their narrowbody fleet. They relaunched AMS year round, announced
new enhanced KE codeshare and now launching a reciprocal codeshare with JAL, I would hardly call that remaining as regional. They are recovering from the pandemic , rebuilding their finances , I would not say their ambitions are over.

Never say never . I still remain of the opinion they will one day they join skyteam within the next 10 years. Strategies always evolve. Just because WS is focusing on leisure right now ,to tap into the market that will garner the most revenue potential, does not mean that once they are back to being profitable, they won’t strive for different revenue streams. Just look at how Alaska Air joined oneworld.

Quote of the century: " we will never fly east of Winnipeg”

Look how well that “never” worked out