If it were to lose United, its biggest member, there would be such a scramble to replace the American partner that the two other big alliances (SkyTeam and oneworld) could be torn apart as Star woos Delta Air Lines and American Airlines, their American anchors.
The game will be played between two Alliances of three robots each.
But obviously the cornerstone of our work in Asia begins with our alliances, and the long-standing friendship between our two countries makes this a very appropriate place for me to stop in my first trip after my reelection.
Ballard has alliances with two giants of the car industry, Ford and DaimlerChrysler.
The coalition-builders have about two weeks to forge alliances and senior cardinals who may themselves have little chance of becoming pope can still exert a considerable influence over the others.
Beyond calculations of interest, the emotional ties created by a common language and alliances in two world wars are clearly still strong.
It has not reduced the number of parties in parliament, but it has herded them into two alliances, one of which has been in office for four years.
The company's two strongest intangible assets are its technology and how it manages its alliances.
CFOs must translate the board's dreamy visions of synergies into cold hard sums, and calculate whether one plus one really is greater than two, then it will be tested by the proliferation of mergers, acquisitions and alliances.
Since the Asian crisis began, it has signed code-sharing marketing alliances with Germany's Lufthansa and with two Australasian carriers, Air New Zealand and Ansett.
And there, despite her legal handicap, the opposition leader Miss Jayalalitha has two near-constants of Indian politics in her favour, disenchantment with the state government and pre-poll alliances.
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