Star Alliance expands
Jun 5, 2004 | 1:23 am
#1
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Join Date: Mar 2002
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Star Alliance expands
I know this is the OW board, but I'm conscious that many within our fold may recently have taken advantage of the *A status match offer.
SAA and TAP have now joined the alliance. At long last a way of getting from Australia-South American on *A without having to go via the USA. More here:
http://sg.biz.yahoo.com/040605/15/3kugh.html
SAA and TAP have now joined the alliance. At long last a way of getting from Australia-South American on *A without having to go via the USA. More here:
http://sg.biz.yahoo.com/040605/15/3kugh.html
Jun 5, 2004 | 4:54 am
#2
Join Date: Jul 2001
Posts: 1,027
Wake Up Oneworld
wake up BA!! 
it's ok to aim for quality and depth over breadth -- but the integration between *A carriers is getting ever better and oneworld's has just stalled. every one of my business acquaintances goes for *A because they have a larger network -- that's what seems to count. With the AirFrance/KLM merger, Skyteam will expand too, and oneworld will be the smallest -- and thus least attractive of the alliances, especially since inter-airline operability is not really progressing beyond the BA/CX/QF household which existed before. Now SWISS is gone. oneworld needs some new members FAST: China Eastern, Japan Airlines, another European. WAKE UP BA! It's not all about Heathrow and the Atlantic.
it's ok to aim for quality and depth over breadth -- but the integration between *A carriers is getting ever better and oneworld's has just stalled. every one of my business acquaintances goes for *A because they have a larger network -- that's what seems to count. With the AirFrance/KLM merger, Skyteam will expand too, and oneworld will be the smallest -- and thus least attractive of the alliances, especially since inter-airline operability is not really progressing beyond the BA/CX/QF household which existed before. Now SWISS is gone. oneworld needs some new members FAST: China Eastern, Japan Airlines, another European. WAKE UP BA! It's not all about Heathrow and the Atlantic.
Jun 5, 2004 | 3:55 pm
#4
Join Date: Aug 2001
Location: Helsinki, Finland
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Originally Posted by LH738
Actually three carriers will join Star:
- SAA
- TAP
- Blue1
- SAA
- TAP
- Blue1