It is good that Lufthansa is able to afford these purchases and you only have to look at Swiss to see the good work done, but with Swiss plus SN Brussels, its looking at Alitalia, Austrian, was previously sniffing around Iberia, is keen to buy BMI, i imagine it will look at CSA in Czech, and i even heard someone mention it could look at SAS at somepoint!!! (personally id be surprised) its already got stakes in a number of other airlines and not just German is it going to get to a point where its told it has too much across Europe by the EU?. I know some of these airlines are small, but it seems every time an airline comes up for sale - of which i think several will in the coming 18 months or so - Lufthy seems to throw its hat in the ring.