At this point I'm posting this simply because I find it to be one of the most hilarious cases of conflicting information in a long time On Friday Flightglobal hinted at inside information that Qatar Airways would join the OneWorld alliance: Oneworld will hold an event announcing a “significant membership development” on 8 October, coming…
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obviously he wouldn't say if they were at this point. But my guess is that he would simply issue a "no comment at this time" if they actually were going to join instead of the unequivocal denial. Unless by "at this time" he just means today.
Looks like they're just tearing off the petals of a flower ...
"They'll join OW, they'll join OW not, they'll join OW, they'll join OW not"
Conventional wisdom dictates that he'd have no comment rater than deny outright.
Either he's out of touch or is trying to be deceptive for some reason, rather than just being cryptic. Is there any reason whatsoever why he should be denying this other than being clueless or an outright liar?
Is it really that bad if someone announced it and qatar will join,it is not like the world will collapsed if he admit it before the day of or people will start flying qatar just because they join OW. Dont understand it.
I lived in Qatar for two years, and as soon as al-baker denied it, I explained the whole situation to my girlfriend (who also loved there) and we are agreed that this probably means QR is in. It's a different world in the gulf. Your logic of "he shouldve said no comment" just doesn't work in that context.
al-Bakar seems to be a pretty no-BS guy, so I'll give him the benefit of the doubt and say that AS will be the airline being inducted. That is, if they are actually introducing a new member instead of just making a previously announced airline an official member.
Didn't EK just come to some codeshare agreements with both QF and AA? If so, I'm guessing those will be nixed if QR joins OW??? That, along with the fact that QR doesn't really need an alliance if they want to focus on big cities from their DOH hub, is what led me to vote no.
The emergence of the gulf carriers has definitely throw a wrench in the alliance paradigm.
I'd definitely be interested in redeeming AA miles for QR flights. QR was a tremendous value when bookable with UA miles because their 2-class J on the 77L and 77W is better than 3-class F on most airlines (obviously not SQ, CX, EK F, but many airlines yes).
The best "Season Finale" would be if they decided to get back with their ex, United.
I've done business with Qatar Airways and al-Baker is well known in the industry for making outrageous comments. I have no idea if QR is going to join OW (I hope so, though), but I would not take al-Baker's strident denial as evidence that they are not joining.
