In an interview with the swiss daily newspaper 'le Temps' (in french) the President of SR daughter Crossair (and for three weeks this spring 2001 also CEO of the whole SR-Groupe/-holding) Moritz Suter says that in the long run the Qualiflyer-Alliance has no future (all french partners will leave the Qualiflyer Group soon anyway, Sabena probably too).

But before joining another Allliance, SR should first solve its own (financial and other) problems and only afterwards start to look and negotiate to join one of the big alliances.