And so who is next? We have seen the gradual demise of European legacy carriers either through bankruptcy or merger/takeover. would KL, IB and OS still be around without the powerful parent taking them over or merging. in fact is any Euro legacy carrier unchanged from twenty years ago.
The way things are going another ten years will see FR and Easy dominating everything except the traditional big city pairs where there is enough premium traffic for the remaining big players which by them are effectively LH inc Eurowings) BA (inc Vueling) and AF which leads one to ask is that really the competitive market the regulators were striving for for will it be even more of a cartel than back in the days of national airlines and pooled routes