Ten years ago - Airbus cut a milestone contract for narrow bodies with 3 Latin American Carriers - TAM, LAN and TACA. This mega deal as it has turned out allowed all 3 to get basically the same airplanes at a sweetheart deal. It became known as the Three Amigos deal.
A decade on and Star seems to be doing the same thing with COPA replacing LAN (a firm member of Oneworld) and now having its own 3 Amigos.
COPA by dint of its relationship with Continental will join as an associate, exiting like its its buddy CO from Skyteam. TAM replaces Varig. The odd one out seems to be TACA who keeps its own counsel. Taca will continue to go its own way but I suspect that Delta is going to be wooing and wooing Sr Kreit. So dont count this one as a permanent done deal.
However this creates a big hole in south America for Skyteam. They need to fill it. Can anyone guess if Avianca/Synergi will be visiting Atlanta any time soon?
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