Originally Posted by
PAXboy
Family were due to trael mid-November to KL. Managed to get rebooked onto Qatar. Friends due to go to KL on this a couple of weeks later too. Ditching a new route, rather than paring back on places that other One World carriers could take up the slack seems like a poor choice.
Is that not a bit contradictory? You highlight that they were reacommodated on Qatar, who is a One World partner, so that's exactly what happened. Plus Malaysia Airlines, also a One World partner, operates 2x daily to KUL so it's not a totally new route a such. It should be remembered just because airlines are in an alliance doesn't mean they don't compete to some degree. BA are not going to drop say a LHR-JFK frequency just because AA already fly it frequently as well.