New Alliance?
 

Can anyone comfirm this:
I've just heard that a new global alliance will be created in the next year: GlobalConnect.

This brand new alliance will include as partners :
TWA, Royal Jordanian, Ethiopian Airlines, Icelandair, Cubana de Aviacion and Viet-Nam Airlines.

This alliance will offer many connctions facilities throughout the world with gateways like Amman, St-Louis, Rejkyavik, Hanoi, Havana, ...

It will be made official in Saint Louis by feb 2000.

I assume this is not to be taken seriously. First of all, there is no way an American carrier would consider a business deal with Cubana (let alone the State Dept. condoning it).

Secondly, having traveled on Vietnam Airlines, I doubt TWA would want their name tied to a carrier with a third-world safety record.

This alliance might be able to GET one anywhere, but the primary benefit of the alliances is efficiency--minimizing the number of transfers/connections to get anywhere in the world. This collection of airlines would not serve that purpose, at least from the US. As far as FF rewards, I'm all for it, but as a competitor to Star, OneWorld, or even Wings or DL/AF/AM, from the US it just doesn't quite make it (unless perhaps JFK is your international gateway).