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“I think we are seeing an evolution, seeing these alliances become tighter-knit partnerships,” noted AMR, parent company of American Airlines, chief financial officer Tom Horton at a recent travel conference.
Those are words that should terrify passengers, suppliers, airports and travel agents. His words, current action within the antitrust-immunized alliances and the crumbling of the Open Skies treaties are cause for serious concern.
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So now that Continental is part of Star Alliance, there are more ways than ever for United “Mileage Plus” and Continental “One Pass” members to get miles. In addition, these are especially valuable miles that qualify towards elite status.
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Brussels Airlines joins Star Alliance after their purchase by Lufthansa, Chinese airline alliance dance, Palazzo Resort in Vegas unveils 16-foot-high polar bear made of poinsettias.
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An Air France A380 was forced to turn around when it developed a problem with the navigation system.
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United will retire the last of its 737 on Wednesday. It will make its last landing at San Francisco International Airport.
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It hasn’t been front page news, certainly compared to the wayward Northwest-Delta pilots, but Continental is dropping their partnership with Delta and Skyteam. They have joined with United and USAir in the Star Alliance. Now, the ramifications of that change are becoming a frequent flier reality.
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The long-sought antitrust immunity between British Airways, American Airlines and Iberia for their OneWorld alliance has hit another patch of turbulence with the E.U. as they attempt to gain the same interoperability enjoyed by competing Star Alliance and SkyTeam.
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A few reports of American Airlines (AA) and Delta Air Lines (DL) discussing possible investments in Japan Air Lines (JAL) have been making their way into the travel news cycles. Normally small investments by one airline into another might be par for the course, but in this case there are big airline alliance ramifications.
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In one of the most astounding comments by one airline about another recently, Delta officials are quoted in the Wall Street Journal as registering opposition to the proposed Lufthansa/JetBlue code-sharing agreement. They have noted the possibility of “competitive mischief” if the deal goes through.
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I’m back to my theme of unintended consequences. While the Transportation Department has been approving airline alliances and pursuing a U.S.-E.U. Open Skies agreement, the airlines have been figuring out ways to game the system. Now a pilot union that once supported all these efforts has awakened to a new reality they don’t like.
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