When the yodel meets the waltz. Can Lufthansa manage a ménage a trois?

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Among the airlines watching Lufthansa’s waltz with Austrian, perhaps none will have keener interest in the outcome than SWISS International. The Lufthansa subsidiary has its hub a mere 700km from the Viennese capital, where Austrian is based. Instinctively SWISS is likely to be more than a little jealously cautious about mutual relationships in the future.