A number of news sources (including this BusinessWeek article) are reporting this morning that Japan Airlines is close to partnering with Delta and joining the SkyTeam Alliance. This would please me greatly as it would improve the scope of SkyTeam in Asia (good for me as a Delta FF, especially since Asia travel will be in our future). And, it would be a stick in the eye of American Airlines, which is my least favorite major carrier (and the only that I refuse to fly).
Two birds. One stone.