The Blue Swan Daily spoke to a number of senior airline delegates at last week's CAPA ACTE Global Aviation and Corporate Travel Summit in London to learn their views on the subject.
- bmi regional, CCO, Jochen Schnadt says we are now "beyond the fault line" for alliances...
- IAG, CEO, Willie Walsh says alliances have been "important in the past" and a "poor substitute" for proper consolidation, but while still "relevant" are not "as significant" today as they were previously...
- Finnair, CCO, Juha Järvinen says future partnerships will be centred around "building an ecosystem around the airline"...
- CityJet, CEO, Pat Byrne says traditional licences can be restrictive. "We don't want to be locked in to one narrow alliance... we want to fly for everybody"...