ANA Holdings says equity ownership is not a 'simple key' to make better alliance

ANA Holdings senior executive advisor to the chairman Keisuke Okada, speaking at the CAPA World Aviation Summit 2015, said (07-Oct-2015) equity ownership is not a "simple key" to make a better alliance, but it might help to make a relationship "quicker and more promising". Using equity ownership as a platform to dictate terms to another carrier would "never help". What is required is understanding between the airlines and the application of common sense, rather than sticking to fixed contract terms.