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[dutchyankee]

With the government of Chili finally giving LAN the green light to take over TAM (with a number of provisos), does anyone know which alliance is most likely to be the surviving alliance of the new airline group to be called LATAM, One World or Star?

http://news.airwise.com/story/view/1316653466.html

http://news.airwise.com/story/view/1316653826.html

[Hippocampus]

If claims that the regulators in Chile have stipulated that LAN/TAM cannot be in the same alliance as Avianca-Tapa and Copa (which are joining/have joined Star) are correct then unless there is a major shifting of the plates LAN will be staying in Oneworld and TAM will be moving over.

[transtraxman]

If LAN stays in while TAM moves into “oneworld” then the rumours about IAG buying TAP will not come to fruition. I cannot see how the European authorities would approve such a takeover of TAP by IAG. Iberia already has the largest share on the Europe-Latin America routes. By buying TAP then the “oneworld” grouping would dominate.

What bets are there for TAP to fall into the hands of Lufthansa – TAP is already in Star Alliance – or AirFrance/KLM? This is a possibility since Lufthansa already dominates in Europe with four airlines under its belt so the European authorities might object to LH buying up another European airline.

[RichHI1]

I would suspect Air Fance / KLM is the more likely way forward. TAM used to have a tie up with AA then moved to *A I think 1 year ago. I think the Brazilians will complain but eventually it will all go One world.

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