Delta / LATAM Partnership (Consolidated Thread)
#46
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When combined with significantly better DL operations, this 3MM flyer may finally move to DL.
Thanks,
#48
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All good in theory, but just be aware that LA award availability between SCL and IPC has been a bit tough to come by, though not impossible, past couple of years. I ended up just buying a cash ticket SCL-IPC-SCL for my trip last year and prices really weren't too bad if you keep an eye on trends - IIRC I paid around $275 RT. Award seats are more sparse between IPC and PPT but cash prices are fairly high most of the time from what I saw.
#49
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Could Ed Bastian be in the early stages of starting his own alliance group: DL, AF/KLM, KE, MU, VA, VS, AM, now LATAM.......This covers a lot of the world pretty well, and would seem to leave VN, AZ, SU, SV, and a few others (as well as GOL, sadly) in the dust of what was SkyTeam.
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Could Ed Bastian be in the early stages of starting his own alliance group: DL, AF/KLM, KE, MU, VA, VS, AM, now LATAM.......This covers a lot of the world pretty well, and would seem to leave VN, AZ, SU, SV, and a few others (as well as GOL, sadly) in the dust of what was SkyTeam.
#51
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Could Ed Bastian be in the early stages of starting his own alliance group: DL, AF/KLM, KE, MU, VA, VS, AM, now LATAM.......This covers a lot of the world pretty well, and would seem to leave VN, AZ, SU, SV, and a few others (as well as GOL, sadly) in the dust of what was SkyTeam.
#52
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I have long thought KQ had the makings of a great partnership especially now that KQ can fly direct to the US.
GA from all accounts is a quality airline, but Indonesia is just so damn far away unless they can both make HND or ICN work as a connector it's of limited value
VN could be interesting but again suffers the same issue as GA, it's just so damn far a away! And for both TPAC fares are rock bottom and there already is an over capacity.
CI I think DL would be wary of starting any type of JV to not upset the mainland Chinese authorities.
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Let's not forget about China Air.
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I just hope DL can improve JJ CS. Their CS is known to be awful. Even my local credit union told me they had prior bad experience dealing with JJ on straight forward credits. The only good CS with JJ is when dealing with a contract agent at a contracted airport. It's sad cause JJ, J class is decent. (Not top of the line, but nowhere close to bottom) I've flown them of their AKL-JFK and MEX-IPC J sales frequently . SCL is a dump, but that will change shortly with new airport opening.
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