Etihad And Qatari Co-operation

[A300Man]

I am hearing lots of rumours that Etihad and Qatar Airways will increase their levels of co-operation during the next few months and will extend their code-sharing to include several of each others current routes.

I can't really see this working, as a principle, but the source of this information is normally pretty reliable.

Can anyone volunteer more info on this?

Thank you.

[Rosbif]

Maybe QR is being nice so that Etihad doesn't scoop up every single A330 rated pilot they have. That would cause some attitude adjustment at HR dept.