Talk:Star Alliance

Missing the obvious (and important) info from the lede
I'm often astonished when editors leave out obvious (and important) things in an article, especially the lede. Remember, an article's lede should answer the obvious question a reader might have when first encountering a subject. This one has the who. when, and where (I guess) but (strangely) not the what and why. Was it created for marketing and advertising purposes to promote the member airlines? To help streamline air operations to benefits passengers around the world? To create a global cartel to exercise monopolistic control over air travel? (Just kidding.) Danged if I know, 'cause nobody bothered to include it.

Did no one think to include this rather obvious and important point? Why not? __209.179.13.130 (talk) 19:05, 6 June 2015 (UTC)


 * Because the explanation and all the information needed is in the Airline alliance article linked in the first sentence. MilborneOne (talk) 19:14, 6 June 2015 (UTC)


 * Thank you for replying but your answer wasn't what I was expecting, especially from someone with such a long and distinguished Wikipedian career. Sure you can can click on a link and eventually find your answer - but why? Why not take the trouble to put it where it belongs, right there. You remind me of a former student who whined about having to add a couple of sentences to his paper. I wish I had some expertise in the subject as I would fix it myself. Why you think it's unnecessary to add a couple of sentence to provided needed info is truly baffling to me. Has this become the Wikipedia way? __209.179.13.130 (talk) 04:31, 10 June 2015 (UTC)


 * Thank you for replying but I wasnt expecting a personal attack, you need to have a look at WP:NPA before you get yourself in trouble, thanks. MilborneOne (talk) 16:05, 10 June 2015 (UTC)


 * Let me just say that if anything I had written offended you, I apologize. I frankly don't understand why you would think of any of it as a personal attack but I'll defer to your judgement - I was simply offering what I thought was a sound note on improving the article. (I guess it's no longer a Wikipedia custom to have the "who, what, where, how, and why" in an article's lede.) BTW, I had forgotten to mention that the five airline's names should have been given instead of writing, "the five founding airlines (see the five airlines in the history section)", but don't worry, I have learned not to offer suggestions for improvements, so I won't. Again, my apologies. __209.179.13.130 (talk) 02:14, 11 June 2015 (UTC)


 * You asked why it had not been done nobody has said we cant change it in some way to improve the article. MilborneOne (talk) 11:48, 11 June 2015 (UTC)

Just thought I'd mention in passing that six (ish?) years after MilborneOne explained that the article could be changed in some way - nobody said it couldn't be - someone else has come to the article and the immediate questions that sprang to her mind were, "Is this not a cartel? Why is this okay when a cartel wouldn't be? How does this presumably legal cooperation between companies differ from what would be illegal?" So she scanned the article for the word "cartel", but it doesn't appear. Then sh... all right, then I went to the Talk page and the only reference I could find was the poster here asking the same question. I can't answer it: I'm no expert on corporate law. Are the OP for this section and me the only people who wondered about this? In all this time? That seems pretty unlikely to me. Can anyone add a line or two to answer these questions, perhaps? - Invernalis (talk) 11:08, 25 April 2021 (UTC)

Star Alliance
Charles Bonsu Owner at Star Alliance Osei Assibey (talk) 00:21, 2 September 2019 (UTC)


 * Sorry not sure if this is a question or comment - please make clear how you wish to improve the article, thanks. MilborneOne (talk) 16:21, 2 September 2019 (UTC)

Who is the CEO
Jeffrey Goh is no longer CEO of Star. He was fired last year. Christine Weigart is the interim CEO, and will be replaced shortly by a permanent one (the new CEO has been recently announced. I don‘t know who can change this in the article, bit PLEASE remove the incompetent, traitorous, corrupt Jeffrey Goh. 2A02:908:125:6E60:0:0:0:AB21 (talk) 15:30, 5 June 2023 (UTC)

Member sponsorship?
@ANG99 In the past years, only Oneworld have member sponsership but Star Alliance and SkyTeam do not? How did you guys make decisions to make the Star Alliance chart similar to the one on Oneworld? I would recommend to put a citation on who sponsored which member of the alliance, otherwise I will have to remove the column. Wikipedia is always cited with a source. Thanks. Loveheart547 (talk) 14:43, 4 July 2023 (UTC)