Who is joining?
Oct 9, 2005 | 2:09 pm
#16
Join Date: Apr 2004
Location: Europe & Middle East
Programs: BA GGL (LTG), Marriott LT Titanium, EK Plat, Amex Cent
Posts: 904
Originally Posted by NickB
Not a hope in hell. Besides, VS partners are not especially ST-oriented. Their closest partner is SQ (who has a minority share in VS) and, UK-wise, they also have connections with BD. If VS were to join an alliance, it would be *A. But they won't join any alliance any time soon.
Oct 9, 2005 | 3:52 pm
#17
FlyerTalk Evangelist
Join Date: Feb 2000
Location: London, UK and Southern France
Posts: 18,856
Originally Posted by nimeta
This seems strange business logic to me as I am sure that they must lose a fair amount of revenue from not being in a decent Alliance. I appreciate that many people are loyal to Virgin as they feel the service is superior to BA et al, and I also appreciate that ST are generally lower standard airlines than Virgin, but does this compensate for the loss of revenue of not being in an alliance??
Oct 10, 2005 | 11:41 am
#18
Join Date: Sep 2005
Location: SAN (at least currently)
Programs: NWA, SPG
Posts: 242
Originally Posted by NickB
Not a hope in hell. Besides, VS partners are not especially ST-oriented. Their closest partner is SQ (who has a minority share in VS) and, UK-wise, they also have connections with BD. If VS were to join an alliance, it would be *A. But they won't join any alliance any time soon.
Oct 11, 2005 | 7:46 pm
#21
Join Date: Jun 2005
Location: Gone to Carolina in my mind
Programs: AA ExpMM, DL 2MM, IHG Spire/RA
Posts: 1,986
Originally Posted by Mimi Flyer
rumors in the local press say that swiss doesn't want to be part of lufthansa, wants to join sky team instead. can anyone confirm?
Nov 20, 2005 | 7:47 pm
#22
Join Date: Nov 2004
Location: the left coast of Mich.
Programs: Former NW Plat, now everybody's nobody, still have Gold w/ Marriot
Posts: 145
Not that it's going to rock the airline world or anything; I was on a KLM codeshare on Air Portugalia last month and the inflight magazine stated how they hoped to join skyteam. Now if they'd only do it before January so I can get miles.....