I have a question - can you tell us if the OW alliance is looking at an African partner. Africa is a huge hole in the network and whilst I do recognise that the continent doesn't have great quality airline coverage it is increasingly difficult for those of us who do business there to ignore the advantages of going with Star alliance who now have both SA and Egyptair on board. Surely someone like Ethiopian Airlines or Kenyan Airlines (less likely because of it's Skyteam Associate status) would be a way to fill this gap?

2nd part of this question relates specifically to the xONEx products in Africa - given this huge hole, have you guys looked at some concessions for Africa such as the "transit without stopover in Europe" option for allowing us to get to more than one African city without either taking a land segment or going to JNB. Correct me if I'm wrong but I'm pretty sure that unless you use JNB it is almost impossible to use the 4 segments in Africa in any logical way?

I'm partial to Ethiopian because there network creates a lot of good options in Africa (ie as a hub ADD ties in north, South, East and West Africa wel) when teamed with BA's network. And to be honest their J product was very good the last time I flew them.

Cheers, Paul