Oneworld at risk if US deal fails, warns BA

[oz_mark]

Oneworld at risk if US deal fails, warns BA - Telegraph

British Airways' chairman has warned that failure to win approval for a transatlantic tie-up with American Airlines could spell the end of Oneworld, the alliance central to the UK flag-carrier's strategy.

 

[Mal]

He said there was a high risk that Oneworld – featuring BA, AA, Iberia, Qantas, Cathay Pacific and Japan Airlines – would fall apart if BA/AA was blocked for a third time.

Yeah right.

 

[NYCguy]

Yeah right.

I agree. More sabre-rattling, "Let us have our own way or the sky will fall!!!"

We've heard it all before, and we still don't believe it.

 

[JohnK]

I can see why the majority of people have no respect for people in charge of airlines. It will be the end of Oneworld? Yeah right as Mal says....

 

[Nigelinoz]

I agree. More sabre-rattling, "Let us have our own way or the sky will fall!!!"

We've heard it all before, and we still don't believe it.

They might need to rattle their sabre a bit louder because the US senate might not be listening,if this piece from Sky Talk is to be believed.
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Senate committee warns of anti-trust dangers

The U.S. Senate Committee on the Judiciary sent a letter to the Department of Transportation and the Department of Justice on Dec. 19, expressing concern about the possible impact of anti-trust immunity for airline alliance on competition.
In the letter, the committee said that the agencies "should exercise its statutory authority to grant antitrust immunity sparingly" and only in rare circumstances "where parties seeking immunity have sustained their heavy burden of establishing that competition must be supplanted to serve some other public interest."
That's worrisome language for American Airlines, British Airways and Iberia, which are hoping to receive approval from government regulators for an international alliance with anti-trust immunity."

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