I know this is the BD forum, but I did draw an interesting nugget from this. AF/KL applied to increase their partnerships and transfer slots at LHR to NW & DL. This left CO the odd man out in the ST world. VS increasing their partnership with CO may be a good thing depending on how crediting the VS flight numbers to BD (op by CO) works out. Usually codeshare flights don't qualify, but you never know what will happen next in this business...