Meanwhile, two rival partnerships, between United, which is a unit of the UAL Corporation, and Lufthansa and between Northwest Airlines and KLM, have received antitrust approval, enabling them to coordinate their schedules and pricing, siphoning passengers away from British Air.
It would also leave the rival BMG partnership established by Kohlberg Kravis Roberts, the private equity firm, and Bertelsmann, the German media group, lacking the anchor asset it had been seeking to give it serious clout.
Walmart, its biggest retail rival, has partnerships with respected nonprofits like the Environmental Defense Fund (EDF) and aggressively works to drive efficiencies in its stores and fleet, and to reduce greenhouse gas emissions in its supply chain.
Therefore refusing to fall into the simplistic narratives of Turks that know everything about America through Hollywood movies and ignorant Americans who only think of Turkey on Thanksgiving, the Young Society Leaders stand for the long-term potential in the US-Turkish relationship that rivals any partnership in modern history.
Their partnership rivaled the achievements of other celebrated performing couples, such as Hume Cronyn and Jessica Tandy.
The airline is also talking with rivals about a partnership that would be crucial to its recovery.
However, for AMD-rival Intel, a partnership with a graphics company may not be the best idea.
The exclusive deal saw Google shift away from its partnership with rival DigitalGlobe, which provides many of Google's rivals with imagery.
The British, he says, have no illusions about creating an Anglo-German partnership to rival the Franco-German partnership of old.
