The stage is set for the biggest global alliance selection of the decade as new airline group LATAM is being forced by Chile's anti-trust court to choose a single grouping. The decision by LATAM, the new parent company for oneworld’s LAN and Star’s TAM, will have huge ramifications as the winning alliance will be guaranteed a leading position in the fast-growing and increasingly important Latin American market. The more likely outcome is a oneworld victory, which would result in its share of capacity in the region increasing to 30% compared to approximately 15% for Star and 11% for SkyTeam. However if Star wins, its share would reach nearly 40% with oneworld’s share dropping to only 7% and SkyTeam, which is not expected to be a serious contender in the battle for LATAM, retaining 11%. Losing LATAM would be unrecoverable for oneworld, unlike for Star who is poised to grow intra-region traffic with forthcoming members Avianca-TACA and Copa.