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Originally Posted by Kiwi Flyer
(Post 12112341)
Just a wee bit exaggerated - from gcm HKG-CAN is 84 miles, LHR-NCE is 647 miles. London & Birmingham is a better comparison (87 miles).
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Originally Posted by graraps
(Post 12112647)
LGW-LTN are co-terminals located 51 miles apart. 51 is much closer to 84 than 647!
If I'm going from Penang to Denpasar, either one is quite a detour just to maintain allegiance to an airline marketing alliance. MH would fill this void nicely for OW (but not likely). |
Originally Posted by Supersonic Swinger
(Post 12112805)
Nevertheless, neither HKG or CAN are SE Asia.
If I'm going from Penang to Denpasar, either one is quite a detour just to maintain allegiance to an airline marketing alliance. MH would fill this void nicely for OW (but not likely). |
Originally Posted by Supersonic Swinger
(Post 12112805)
MH would fill this void nicely for OW (but not likely).
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Originally Posted by DownUnderFlyer
(Post 12115334)
Since 1834 MH is rumored to join Skyteam but not much has eventuated yet.
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Originally Posted by DownUnderFlyer
(Post 12115334)
Since 1834 MH is rumored to join Skyteam but not much has eventuated yet.
Originally Posted by kiwiandrew
(Post 12115455)
Since 1834? It is only 1738 in Kuala Lumpur at the moment. :D
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I might have exaggerated a bit. Sorry, won't happen again. ;)
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I think Cathay Pacific currently has agreements with Air China for eg. capability with Asia Miles also codesharing would allow OW's exposure to China.
Furthermore, since Cathay Pacific is an Hong Kong based airline, it would not be surprising to see China may offer all 5th to 8th traffic rights to all Hong Kong passenger and freight carriers as a part of CEPA hence Cathay Pacific can acutally operate in China hence no Chinese carriers is necessary. For South East Asia Network, I think OW may need more exposure, but it can do it not even to invite a new airline to come in. JetStar Asia/Pacific, a Qantas Group Airline, is now a big profit-driver for Qantas Group. So OneWorld can try to liaise with Qantas to form a new full-service airline or to convert 3K/BL to full service with other OW Airlines - a joint venture project will help simply. This might work even better. Finally for Brazilian network, I think LAN can try to set up LAN Brazil sometime later as of their other LAN Airlines. I don't think OW will need a new airline for that region tho. The only region left over might be Central Asia, which would pretty despreate a new airline to join. But I believe 9W and IT knows their position in any alliance is so important hence they will rather not to join at this time until those 3 alliances offer enough prviliages/terms favourable enough for 9W & IT to join. |
Originally Posted by Metropolitan Airlines
(Post 12178716)
The only region left over might be Central Asia, which would pretty despreate a new airline to join. But I believe 9W and IT knows their position in any alliance is so important hence they will rather not to join at this time until those 3 alliances offer enough prviliages/terms favourable enough for 9W & IT to join.
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Originally Posted by Metropolitan Airlines
(Post 12178716)
...The only region left over might be Central Asia, which would pretty despreate (sic) a new airline to join.
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Originally Posted by Kiwi Flyer
(Post 12077201)
Furthermore Comair claim to be out of the alliance for some purposes (when it suits them) and deny alliance benefits.
Originally Posted by kiwiandrew
(Post 12079464)
MK ... also serve surprisingly few cities in Africa (CPT, JNB, DUR, NBO on the mainland all of which are already served by Comair...)
I'd like to see Comair expand - regionally and intercontinentally - but they seem to have focused on expanding kulula.com rather than the BA side of things. Their last BA route expansion was to MRU - and that came at the expense of GRJ (personal grrr). Maybe Comair could start joining up some of the BA dots on the African map, such as JNB-NBO or JNB-LOS - on that last one though it'd be a 737 vs. the 340 of Arik or the 744 of SA unless they got some longhaul aircraft. |
Originally Posted by JAXBA
(Post 12192937)
Comair don't fly to NBO - you may be thinking of Regional Airlines, which as hauteboy mentioned, aren't a BA franchisee anymore - the franchise was taken away from them in 2005 due to service/standards issues. |
Originally Posted by JAXBA
(Post 12192937)
I'm interested - what have you experienced? I haven't flown them yet but am planning on doing a JNB-PLZ trip one day - what benefits did they deny? As comair rather than BA they also avoid EU compensation rules. |
Ah, just read your trip report from JNB-WDH on. Crazy and amazing! As for the lounge issue in JNB, was the BA Flounge open at that time? I wonder if you were directed to the J because the BA longhauls weren't until later, so the F wasn't being used yet? Only a guess.
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F lounge was open and almost empty.
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