Changing alliance partners is a strategic reality; changing airport operations is a tiresome and sumptuous consequence "The disengagement is more difficult.

Changing alliance partners is a strategic reality; changing airport operations is a tiresome and sumptuous consequence

"The disengagement is more difficult, and I would dare to say also more expensive, than the engagement," says Maarten Evenepoel exhibit manager-alliances at Sabena. The Belgian airline has one experience in the matter. There was SWA--Sabena World Airlines with KLM and BA--then the marriage and divorce with Air France, then a brighter partnership with the Qualiflyer/Atlantic superior goodness group, from which Austrian Airlines and Delta Air Lines broke away

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