Which is the next * partner?
 

Which airline will join * next?Other than US air,what other rumors are out there?

I havent heard so many rumours, though I personally feels that all that is missing is an african carrier(South African?) and one Chinese Airline.

http://www.flyertalk.com/forum/Forum82/HTML/000198.html

for entirely selfish reasons id like to see virgin as part of the *A

jon

for entirely selfish reasons id like to see virgin as part of the *A

jon

What about a Middle Eastern Airline?

Gulf Air and Emirates are both highly regarded.

Stephen

I see that you can now earn UA miles on Emirates - perhaps that is the first step into the Star Alliance?

Conrad

Hi,

South African has (unfortunately) gone into a codeshare agreement with Qantas.

goodo

That doesn't mean anything. They still have a codeshare agreement with LH and SRGroup holds a minority stake in SA...

I don't think it makes sense for SAA to join an alliance. It has formed close-knit code-share agreement with a number of different partners from a number of different alliances:
Delta - North America - Sky Team
Nigeria Airlines - joint operations from Lagos - JFK
Lufthansa - Europe - Star Alliance
Swissair - Europe - Qualiflyer
Qantas - Australia - oneworld

Adding Turkish Airlines to Star alliance would strengthen its alliance in the middle east and eastern europe.

I'd say that the best airline to complete the network would be Emirates.

* Posted to wrong thread *


[This message has been edited by MilesDependent (edited 05-23-2001).]

Virgin seems a good choice to me, as they could battle Oneworld on the transatlantic sector to England. More competition...better for us!!!

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[This message has been edited by ahrz (edited 05-24-2001).]