Guess the offer of 'associate membership' wasn't enough to get them in. I really wonder what OW can offer MA, unless there is some deal to finally privatize them with capital from an OW member airline. All in all, a dissapointing turn of events, I'm not looking forwards to only flying via Heathrow to get to BUD in the future. But at least they wern't gobbled up by Austrian and Star, leaving at least some competition standing in the Central Europe market.