CZ will codeshare VA to feed Australia service

[ben95]

I'd imagine for any Chinese carriers, who has stakes in the company has no real decision making power.

Iirc previously CZ and QF did have codeshare agreements. I wonder what has changed for CZ to make the switch

Perhaps not any real decision making power but seems enough to sway some partnership discussions.

AA pirchased 2.6% of of CZ back in the days (have since been diluted I think) and that was enough to fuel CZ to depart from SkyTeam after a decade of membership. Circumstances are not too different to this when DL/AF/KL preferred a more extensive partnership and shareholding with MU. In this case the CZ-DL partnership came years before the MU-DL partnership, just like CZ-QF and MU-QF.

Likewise CZ had codeshare agreements with EK, but have since switched to partner with QR after it acquired stakes in CZ.