Originally Posted by
scambo1
It will also prep the political battlefield in the event that AA splits up - so that oneworlds euro carriers have good dance partners. They don't care about monopoly, they care about employment. AF/KLM wont have to divest anything (unless economically they can't sustain it), but Oneworld's euro arm will get some action from them or get spliced into skyteam/ star.
That is better than total Foreign Ownership, and it too makes sense if the OneWorld partners are making noise. They will need dance partners and fast. I much prefer to deal with this than foreign ownership. We do have our six/eight way protocol in place, and that is a lot more than others do, but it is still a far cry from labor law going outside our borders.