Kenya Airways est entrain de réfléchir à une possible sortie de SkyTeam. Même raison que pour China Southern et TAROM, elle pense que sa présence dans l'alliance, ne lui apporte pas grand chose. En 2016, l'accord KLM-Kenya Airways avait fait débat au Kenya. Certains disaient que c'est KLM qui était le 1er bénéficiaire, du contrat et non KQ. Un nouvel accord a été par la suite signé.
En cas de départ de SkyTeam, la compagnie envisagerait de multiplier les Joint Venture. Dans la thread GVA, j'avais parlé des JV, en création, en Afrique (Air Austral / Kenya Airways / South African Airways et Kenya Airways / South African Airways / Air Mauritius / RwandAir).
Kenya Airways weighs leaving SkyTeam, pursuing JVs
Kenya Airways is questioning its future as a SkyTeam alliance member, saying joint ventures (JVs) might prove more valuable to the airline.
“What advantage would we have to stay in SkyTeam? And what when we are independent? We don't have to be in SkyTeam to have JVs and our shareholder structure would not change when we leave,” Kenya Airways CEO Sebastian Mikosz told ATW in Nairobi. “The question for us is to stay or leave the alliance.”
Joint ventures allow for closer cooperation than alliances, he said.
“JVs are really business-driven and have a very deep economic sense. You can easily compete with another member of the same alliance while you don’t compete with your JV partner,” he said.
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