Originally Posted by
Anglo Large Clawed Otter
Vietnam Airlines would be an intriguing addition. Granted, MH would be far more useful, as they have a bit more breadth...but VN would be cool.
We'd have to figure out transit visa issues with VN. I believe that you can just stay airside in SGN and HAN, but if not the visa issues would make using them as a connection airline rather annoying.
Originally Posted by
milehighclubnz
CO flies from Cairns to Honolulu and AF from Noumea to LAX then onto CDG, but both of these reach small general population.
I read it somewhere Kingfisher is negotiating to join Skyteam, which is a great news, especially compared to Star Alliance getting Air India instead
CO flies CNS-GUM, not HNL. And I'd love to see IT join up in India, especially if they can get their BLR-SFO flight off the ground as it would make some RTW possibilities interesting, but I'm not sure that any new long-haul routes are going to be launching right now.