Oneworld (airlines)

oneworld is third largest airline alliance in the world, behind Star Alliance and Skyteam. oneworld member airlines and their affiliates enjoy a high degree of co-operation in scheduling, ticketing, code sharing, flight transfer operations, frequent flyer benefits, shared airport lounges, reducing costs and sharing 'best practice'. The goals of the alliance are:

Related Topics:
Airline alliance - Star Alliance - Skyteam - Code sharing - Frequent flyer benefits

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• Making global travel smoother, easier, better value and more rewarding.
• Offering travel solutions beyond the reach of any airline’s individual network.
• Providing a common commitment to high standards of quality, service and safety.
• Creating a world where customers always feel at home, wherever their journey may take them.
• Delivering its airlines with savings and benefits greater than any can achieve by itself.

oneworld was the first airline alliance to establish a central management. Based in Vancouver, Canada, oneworld has a Managing Director, reporting to the alliance board, which is made up of the Chief Executives of each of the member airlines. Chairman of the board is held on a rotating basis. Reporting to the Managing Partner are function heads for Commercial, IT, Public Relations, Airports and Customer Service, and a Global Project Director.

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Vancouver - Canada

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oneworld member airlines also develop common specifications as widely as possible across their engineering and maintenance activities, aligning their policies and procedures and work together to develop and support solutions that can be applied throughout the airline industry. Costs are also reduced through bulk buying and by sharing parts between one another.

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The oneworld alliance reaches over 600 destinations in 135 countries around the world, operating over 8000 daily flights. In 2004 oneworld carried over 230 million passengers on a combined fleet of some 2000 aircraft. It is the only airline alliance whose members earned a combined profit in the past year - US$1.5 billion net, against combined losses by Star carriers totalling more than US$2.2 billion and an overall deficit by SkyTeam’s members in excess of US$7 billion.

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oneworld was voted the world’s best airline alliance in the 2004 Business Traveller Awards and named the World's Leading Airline Alliance for the second year running at the 2004 World Travel Awards.

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