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Old Jun 10, 2005 | 12:47 pm
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apoivre
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Originally Posted by seoulmanjr
- Air Mauritius (only serves three cities in continental Africa)
- Air Seychelles (serves only Jo'burg in cont. Africa)
- EgyptAir (ugh - and only East Africa)
- Kulula (LCC that is only dom flights in SA)
- Air Tanzania (hell no!)
- Air Zimbabwe (hell no!)
- Tunisair (Teeny, tiny network)
- Daallo (Djibouti and Eth/Eri, basically)
- Royal Air Maroc (great, but only West Africa)
- Kenya Airways (bingo!!!)
You forgot Ethiopian. Oh, and Air Mauritius is really nice, actually

Originally Posted by remyontheroad
I agree strongly with the point that we're unlikely to see a flood of KQ frequent flyers fighting us for award inventory.
Guess what? KQ's FFP is KL-AF's Flying Blue (and it used to be KL's Flying Dutchman until last week). Their frequent flyers will get no better access to ST award inventory than they had for years. Same goes with CM which uses CO's Onepass as its own FFP.

As to UX, if they can get people from Europe to more points in Latin America and the Caribbean without passing through US - more power to them. Next time someone wants to fly to SDQ or SSA (!), they'll fly from MAD and will not be sitting in someone else's seat between Europe and the US. So much for award inventory
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