Sorry if this has been mentioned, but MH is slightly better picking at the moment since Garuda Indonesia is in the process of joining Skyteam. Not impossible that MH would join as well, but it would be nice if OW could make a move. Maybe some of AA's $1bn+ kicking around...?

I would have thought Kingfisher is the more likely candidate as they are already on the Global Explorer fare .

Hainan I would think as a very good possibility - there was a rumour ( way back before the whole JL/Skyteam distraction ) that JL wanted to sponsor them into Oneworld .

Air Berlin would indeed be a nice addition. Since Deutsche BA used to be an oneworld affilate, it is not a bad idea to get it back. Hainan would be nice, but, given their presence in HKG by controlling Hongkong Airlines and Hongkong Express, I doubt that Cathay would be happy about it.

HK Airlines and HK Express are minnows compared to CX and if memory serves me well, they are kind of LCCs serving a slew of destinations in mainland China I doubt KA notices them. Their only relevant contribution so far seems their attempts to cross CX airliners during landing/takeoff at HKIA

There was also a rumor at one point that Hainan was going to start service BOS-PEK or PVG (which would be the only service from BOS to Asia). It was reported in the paper but never materialized. Now that would be a nice addition to OW.

http://www.boston.com/news/world/asi...gan_and_china/
(clearly this never happened)

Anytime that CX wants to add BOS-HKG service, that's fine with me.

As an option for SE Asia, MH would be a fantastic addition.

For what it's worth i.e. probably not too much, Wikipedia currently lists as possibles only:

- China Eastern (and thus Shanghai Airlines)
- Grand China Air
- Jet Airways
- Kingfisher Airways
- Westjet (!)

It is wikipedia. People add and remove whatever they want.

Agreed, but I don't know of any other listing of potential new members.

If you can point me to somewhere that, using cited credible sources, lists Air Berlin, Alaska, China Eastern, Gol, Grand China Air, Kingfisher or Jet and Malaysian to join and South African, Korean or Asiana to leave their respective alliances for OW, I'd be more than happy to use that instead!

I go to Bordeaux and getting there from DFW on OW is tough. Connex thru MAD causes a long layover; or you get into the LHR/LGW airport transfer in London, which no one does. Or you do the AA/AF interline via CDG. As alliances go, ST and SA have far better options to many European destinations.

+1. BOS really has a large HK and Taiwanese-backed Chinese population. Usually, choices to fly to HKG are BOS-JFK on AA and JFK-HKG on CX OR UA.

But...I don't think BOS has sufficient F/J demand for the 77A...

Have you tried using the often overlooked AA-codeshares with the French TGV? You might want to look into that option: AA to CDG, CDG to Bordeaux St Jean on TGV.

In my experience air-to-HSR actually gets there equally fast because there's less time involved in waiting for your connecting flight. Plus when you arrive, you're already in the heart of Bordeaux. ^

http://www.aa.com/i18n/aboutUs/codes...tners/SNCF.jsp

Well it sounds like there will be a couple of ex-LHR AA/BA slots at BOS, so who knows...

http://www.flyertalk.com/forum/briti...plication.html
http://www.flyertalk.com/forum/ameri...operation.html

Hey, thanks kebosabi, I never thought of that. I have taken the TGV btw Bordeaux and Paris or Lille, moving back and forth, but never in conjunction with a flight.

No problem. It's one of those "I didn't know that was an option" things partly because:

1. It never occurs to us Americans because we don't have any airports that have direct air-to-HSR option over here in the States (our intra-city passenger rail system is crap)

and

2. AA has a really outdated and inefficient marketing web page to tell the average flyer that such a codeshare even exists. One has to go to "About Us," "Alliances & Affiliates," "Other Alliances (Codeshare Partners)," scroll all the way down to "Deutsche Bahn (German Rail)" and "SNCF French Rail"


But bottom line, AA codeshares with the French TGV out of CDG and the German ICE trains from FRA work really great. They really should push this more in ads because it puts more destinations on the map for AA.

And yes, you earn AA miles for taking that TGV leg