If NW and KL are willing to create their own alliance, Swissair would be a nice addition, especially with their connections in eastern Europe, where KLM is pretty weak.And if CO and Malaysia would join them, that would be a competitive one.In these days SR has to focus on rebuilding their name as a quality airline, a friend of mine, who flew SR on Dus-Zrh-Bos several times a year for the last 10 years told me, that they downgraded the service in Eco to a level, normally only Sabena operates......
The funny thing about that is, that SR won a price for best overall Eco service worldwide, just a few weeks ago, based on a survey of 15000 travel agents.
But both SR and Sabena seem to be one on a good way in terms of rebuilding their fleet, so I would not think, that the decision to crunch Sabena is alreayd done.