Would disagree. FlyLAL is effectively a low-cost carrier serving ultra-price-sensitive markets, primarily ferrying tens of thousands of guests workers from Lithuania to London and Ireland (and some holiday traffic to Munich and Milan too).
At the moment, *A has a stronghold of routes in Eastern Europe. I am travelling around that area quite a bit and frankly no other alliance stands half a chance there.
Originally Posted by
HeathrowGuy
Folks laugh, but SkyTeam is building a formidable network into some real cash cow markets. Business travel into the former Soviet Union -- from both the West and the East -- is booming, and SkyTeam is building a fortress presence that oneworld and Star can't reasonably match.