Oyendetsa ndege, omwe ndi mamembala onse a mgwirizano wamphamvu wa SkyTeam, asankha Goldman Sachs kuti awalangize za njira yomwe angakwanitse.
Sir Richard, yemwe mtengo wake ku Virgin Atlantic ndi wamtengo wapatali ndi akatswiri ofufuza paliponse pakati pa £ 500m ndi £ 1bn, adalemba ntchito ya Deutsche Bank kuti ifufuze zomwe angasankhe, monga The Daily Telegraph idawululira mu November. Singapore Airlines ili ndi ma 49pc otsala, atagula $600m mu 1999.
Woyambitsa Virgin adakakamizika kuyang'ananso momwe ndegeyi ilili pambuyo pa mgwirizano wa £ 5.2bn wa British Airways ndi Iberia ndi mgwirizano wawo wodutsa nyanja ya Atlantic ndi American Airlines. Mgwirizanowu, womwe udapanga International Airlines Group, ndi womwe Sir Richard adatsutsa kwambiri.
Ndege zapadziko lonse lapansi zakhala zikuyenda kuti aphatikize ndikupanga mgwirizano kuti athane ndi kusokonekera kwachuma komanso zinthu zina monga kukwera kwamitengo yamafuta.
Koma Virgin walephera kukhala membala wa mabungwe akuluakulu a ndege. Ndemanga ya Virgin Atlantic ili ndi zotsatira zingapo. Izi zikuphatikiza mgwirizano wa codeshare, kulowa nawo mgwirizano, kugulitsa zonse kapena gawo la Singapore kwa gulu lina, komanso kuti Sir Richard asiye kuwongolera ambiri ngati gawo lalikulu lamakampani opanga ndege.
Speculation ndiyokhazikika ngati ilowa nawo SkyTeam the Star Alliance, yomwe ili ndi Lufthansa ndi United.
Etihad, chonyamulira cha banja lolamulira la Abu Dhabi, akuganizanso kuti ali ndi chidwi chogula mtengo wa Sir Richard. James Hogan, wamkulu wa Etihad, akuganiziridwa kuti adalembera ku Deutsche Bank kuti afotokoze chidwi ndi zomwe zingachitike. Etihad yalemba ntchito Bank of America Merrill Lynch kuti azilangiza.
Chaka chatha Air France ndi Delta adalumikizana ndikuyika € 1.5bn (£ 1.3bn) ku Japan Airlines, chonyamula odwala ku Asia. Japan idakana njirayo mokomera kukhalabe mumgwirizano wandege wa Oneworld ndi American Airlines ndi British Airways.
