Originally Posted by FlyerGoldII
In terms of the Indian market, there is Indian Airlines, Jet, Sahara, and other airlines planning to join the market. These other airlines are starting to expand to international destinations. There is a thought that with Jet codesharing with UA, it may eventaully join the Star Alliance. I guess that if one airline joins at least one alliance, other airlines (including Air India) may join the competing alliances. I suspect the same principle may be valid for the Chinese market.
In view of your insight, do you project that OW will add any major world airlines within the next year, or so - even though at best that would be an educated guess?
I can forsee Air Sahara in OW. They appear to already have some sort of a preliminary agreement with AA and BA and are supposedly in talks with CX. Since the other OW carriers do not serve India, I guess everything will just fall into place with them.