teemuflyer

Well they are the flag carrier of Sri Lanka, and government owned, so they will likely pair down their overall routes etc. at the back end of the pandemic, but I would be surprised if they are completely wiped out. Most nations consider their flag carriers strategic assets and important symbols for the countries.

kescalona

Just found out Iberia is leaving One World May 1st and joining Delta.

Mwenenzi

Source?
Or are you getting confused with LATAM who are leaving OW. Several threads on that topic
Delta have taken a share of LATAM ownership. But as yet no indication LATAM will joining Skyteam.LATAM will be a DL ff partners

IB is owned by IAG, who also won BA, IE and several other airlines
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Intern...Airlines_Group

luitje

Have your source also given a firm date of hell freezing over?
--update--
On a second thought, you are probably confusing Iberia with LATAM, which indeed leaves on May 1.

moa999

QH Bamboo Airways (Vietnam).

​​​​​​Per the press articles linked in:https://www.airliners.net/forum/view...0ea31980ab8847

Personally don't see it.
While they are backed by a big Vietnamese business, they had expanded very aggressively, and have been known to make grandious statements.

And the timing is just weird with Covid19 closing literally all air traffic

iFlyMIA

Alitalia.

dvs7310

When is CZ (China Southern) coming in? Though certainly don't wan to loose CX for CZ, but I reckon that has been in the works behind the scenes for a while.

clubeurope

Unless Lufthansa comes in and snatches Alitalia (which I hope they don't), it would make a lot of sense for Alitalia to join oneworld... they're network is arguably complementary to that of the other OW members, and arguably, Alitalia should fit into OW's TATL JV pretty well (I read somewhere that a large chunk of Alitalia's revenue comes from flying to New York JFK?)

Having said that, here are some airlines I think would make sense in joining oneworld or oneworld connect

- Rwandair (QR is said to be interested in investing in them)
- GOL Linhas Aereas? (in light of the AA partnership)
- The new South African flag carrier?
- Aer Lingus (IAG)
- Air Europa (IAG)
- China Southern (ahh the classic)
- Starlux Airlines

ernestnywang

Let's not forget BA has Comair there.

In fact, Starlux uses oneworld's sequence of Revenue Booking Designator (RBD), which seems to suggest they are interested in oneworld in the long run. They have JCDYBHKMLVSNQ.

lokron1125

Rwandair is the best airline to feed the oneworld gap in central Africa, but I can't see the possibility to join until their new airport opened.
If GOL willing to join an alliance, they already join when in a relationship with Delta.
China Southern & Starlux (plus Philipines Airlines) are depends on Cathay Pacific....

clubeurope

The thing is, back when GOL was with Delta, there weren't really any "alliance-lite" options. Additionally, with their JVs with Westjet, Virgin Atlantic and the such, Delta has frankly shown that they don't believe in alliances anymore, hence possibly signalling why they were not pushing GOL to join. The same with LATAM. AA on the other hand has been doing JVs and agreements with airlines traditionally associated with oneworld.

I would imagine, with the oneworld connect scheme, it might be interesting if not a desirable option for GOL to join, particularly if they are influenced by AA to join such a scheme.

Starlux on the other hand, seem very unlikely to grow very big. They target a niche market (or at least they say), and as such by the nature of their business cannot grow to the size of that of BR and CI. Instead, CX may be (should be) interested in pursuing a TPAC joint venture agreement with them, which I believe could be mutually beneficial to both carriers later when JX starts flights to NA (if they do end up following through).

ernestnywang

JX seems very ambitious, and they definitely plan to grow to a size similar to UL's and RJ's in a few years. Whether it would materialise, I don't know.

clubeurope

I guess given your example, a possible cooperation between JX and CX may look like the degree of codeshare between RJ and QR, if not more. The two serve very similar relatively small markets of point-to-point flights, and has a significant hub-and-spoke model. QR operates to many secondary cities RJ does not, and as such RJ codeshares to several destinations operated by QR, such as CMB, MCT, JNB, NBO, PER, SIN, DAC, LHE, and KHI. RJ would otherwise be too small to serve all these destinations.

Likewise, JX, with their fleet of 10 A321s will unlikely serve all the regional destinations of CX, let alone at similar capacity. Thus CX/KA can work as feeder flights to regional destinations in Asia for JX. JX is definitely the vulnerable one here, since they are relatively small (vs CI and BR) in a very crowded market. Arguably, if JX wants to survive, it better seek help from an alliance or partners. If JX and CX could somehow enter a TPAC JV agreement (assuming JX will fly to NA), this will be beneficial for CX as they are sharing relative revenue for pax who would pay a premium to fly nonstop between Taiwan and the US/Canada.

Just my two cents

clubeurope

Oddly enough (very likely to be an error), Seatguru lists "oneworld" as the airline alliance for JX. Does this tell the future lol

teemuflyer

Well, it's Seatguru after all.. Not even exactly reliable for their original mission.