Malév to join OW after all
May 25, 2005, 2:01 am
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Malév to join OW after all
Title says it all. They signed a MOU
http://www.asiatraveltips.com/news05/245-oneworld.shtml
http://www.asiatraveltips.com/news05/245-oneworld.shtml
May 26, 2005, 10:37 am
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Guess the offer of 'associate membership' wasn't enough to get them in. I really wonder what OW can offer MA, unless there is some deal to finally privatize them with capital from an OW member airline. All in all, a dissapointing turn of events, I'm not looking forwards to only flying via Heathrow to get to BUD in the future. But at least they wern't gobbled up by Austrian and Star, leaving at least some competition standing in the Central Europe market.
May 26, 2005, 11:54 am
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Originally Posted by magyarflieger
All in all, a dissapointing turn of events, I'm not looking forwards to only flying via Heathrow to get to BUD in the future.
May 27, 2005, 6:26 am
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I wonder if this means the end of DL code sharing flights with Malev. Maybe DL will finally start its own international service to the gorgeous city of Budapest.
May 27, 2005, 11:26 am
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Originally Posted by jmscsc
I wonder if this means the end of DL code sharing flights with Malev. Maybe DL will finally start its own international service to the gorgeous city of Budapest.
May 27, 2005, 11:44 am
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To me it looks more like a way of making some noise about the imminent privatisation than anything else. You can bet that the new buyer will do whatever suits their long-term plans, which could be anything from finally joining OW to going back to associate ST membership to just dropping the alliance game and trying to market themselves as an intercontinental LCC (especially considering their cooperation with Hainan).