One major trend we've seen among global airlines the past few years is that the major alliances have become less important, while individual partnerships and joint ventures have become much more important. For example, I suspect Qantas' joint venture with Emirates is about as significant to them as their membership in oneworld. Arguably the same…
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I'm surprised Air Canada and Air NZ don't work closer together on these routes given their both in Star and ANZ fly to Vancouver year round. With the exception of Canberra, you can fly to all of those destinations one stop through Auckland.
When will Virgin get it together. I know Virgin America is now out of the question.
But Virgin should just have one frequent flyer program that works with ease on VS & VA.
I don't know that this is entirely brilliant, at least the part with a third country involved and it's the USA. That means an extra round of immigration and security, through a county that makes the process unduly miserable. Even US preclearance in Canada tends to hurt, and thought of few extra trips through TSA in LA? I think many people will take a pass.
@B Canberra AND Hobart if you're referring to Capital cities. We Tasmanians are used to being forgotten 😉
@B- Air Canada flies to Sydney and Brisbane. They need help filling those planes. That's what this would do. Helping fill Air New Zealand's YVR-AKL route doesn't help fill Air Canada's own routes to Australia at all. Air Canada gets way more revenue by filling its own planes than it does by filling the planes of a partner. While I'm sure they like Air New Zealand, Air Canada would much prefer the passsenger going from YVR to Adelaide or Perth to fly on Air Canada to Australia and then connect rather than on Air New Zealabd to Auckland then connect. Bottom line is that Air Canada's first priority is to see its own routes succeed first and foremost.
@lucky- air Canada can already sell tickets beyond their gateways with their interline agreements. This just makes it more attractive. But they didn't NEED a codeshare to do so. Just interline agreements. United can do this already, has been able to do so for a long time. So can air Canada
Unrelated, but Singapore Airlines is beginning service to Stockholm via Moscow from May next year: http://www.routesonline.com/news/38/airlineroute/270420/singapore-airlines-adds-stockholm-flights-from-may-2017/
With the schedule of:
SQ362 Departs Singapore 0020 Arrives Moscow 0600, Departs Moscow 0715 Arrives Stockholm 0825
SQ361 Departs Stockholm 1025 Arrives Moscow 1330, Departs Moscow 1500 Arrives Singapore 0615+1 day
Runs 5x weekly, (daily except Wednesdays and Sundays), operated by Airbus A350-900.