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Oneworld
Official Launch Date February 1, 1999
Members Full 10
Non-Voting 0
Pending 0
Destinations Airports 700
Countries 150
Annual Passengers (M) 315
Annual RPK (G) 688
Fleet Size 2453
Management John McCulloch, Managing Partner
Geoff Dixon, Chairman Governing Board
Website www.oneworld.com

Oneworld is the third largest airline alliance in the world — behind Star Alliance and SkyTeam. 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 practices.

Oneworld, formed in 1999, was the first airline alliance to establish a central management team. Based in Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada, the Oneworld Management Company has a Managing Partner, 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 Experience, and a Global Project Director.

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.

After a considerable expansion in 2007 (Japan Airlines, Royal Jordanian and Malév Hungarian Airlines joined as member airlines, while LAN Ecuador, LAN Argentina, Dragonair and five subsidiaries of Japan Airlines joined as affiliate airlines) the alliance now reaches roughly 700 destinations in nearly 150 countries around the world, operating over 9000 daily flights. It is the only alliance that has a full network in Australia (Qantas) and the only alliance with a member based in South America (LAN Airlines). In 2006 Oneworld carried over 321 million passengers on a combined fleet of some 2300 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 Alliance carriers totaling more than US$2.2 billion and an overall deficit by SkyTeam members in excess of US$7 billion.

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 fourth consecutive year at the 2006 World Travel Awards.

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  • 1999 — Oneworld becomes operational on February 1, and member airlines begin joining the alliance. Iberia and Finnair join later that year.
  • 2003–2004 — Swiss International Air Lines accepts an invitation to join in September 2003, but in June 2004 Swiss terminated the agreement.
  • 2005 — on October 17, Royal Jordanian accepts an invitation to join Oneworld. On October 25, Japan Airlines admitted that the airline is seeking a membership in Oneworld. On November 22, Malév accepted a formal invitation to join the alliance.
  • 2006 — Japan Airlines signs a Memorandum of Understanding with Oneworld. The airline will join the alliance after reaching the remaining agreements.

More recently, Oneworld members have been co-locating in airports. Below are some of the major co-locations:

  • 2007 — Oneworld members serving Narita International Airport move together into Terminal 2 to align with Japan Airlines hub. All Oneworld member airlines, except British Airways, are now in Terminal 2.
  • 2008 — All Oneworld members (except British Airways) serving Heathrow Airport will move into Terminal 3 in March 2008. British Airways will have exclusive use of the new Terminal 5, and will continue to operate a limited number of flights at Terminal 3.[2]

Japan Airlines aircraft with special Oneworld livery, seen in 2007
Japan Airlines aircraft with special Oneworld livery, seen in 2007

The small Oneworld logo (approx 10cm in diameter) is found upon the entry door, on the right, on any aircraft of the Oneworld member airlines.

In addition, Japan Airlines has painted two of its Boeing 777 aircraft in a special Oneworld livery to mark its entrance into the alliance.

The current Oneworld members and affiliate** members include:[3]

* founding member
** note that some of the affiliate member airlines may also have another tier of subsidiary airlines operating for them but those secondary subsidiaries may not be affiliated with Oneworld

Note that some of the member airlines have subsidiaries which are not considered to be part of Oneworld. This include:

  • Flag of the People's Republic of China China Eastern Airlines - the airline has expressed interest in joining Oneworld and currently codeshares with American Airlines, British Airways, Cathay Pacific, Japan Airlines and Qantas[4]. China Eastern's loyalty program also has ties to Cathay Pacific and no Skyteam or Star Alliance airlines.
  • Flag of the People's Republic of China Grand China Airlines - the airline previously known as Hainan Airlines[5] has expressed interest in joining Oneworld[6] and has codeshare agreements with Japan Airlines and Malév Hungarian Airlines as well as potential future member Brussels Airlines. Grand China Airlines Fortune Wings members can earn points on Malév Hungarian Airlines regular flights and not on any Skyteam or Star Alliance airline.
  • Flag of Russia S7 Airlines - currently in negotiations with British Airways to possibly join the alliance in the near future. [7]
  • Flag of Canada WestJet - currently in talks with Oneworld to possibly join the alliance in the near future. This would fill the void left by the departure of Canadian Airlines.[8] A major obstacle to this possibility is the fact that Westjet doesn't have a loyalty program nor does it have a business class product.

* founding member

Oneworld has three premium levels - Ruby, Sapphire, and Emerald - based on a customer's tier status in a member carrier's frequent flyer program. Emerald level is the highest level in each carrier's program. Each of the member airlines recognizes the elite statuses. The statuses have no specific requirements of their own; membership is based solely on the frequent flyer programs of individual member airlines.

Oneworld Ruby status is awarded to customers who have reached the first premium level of a member carrier's frequent flyer program.

Benefits of Oneworld Ruby membership:

  • Priority reservations waitlisting
  • Priority airport stand-by
  • Priority airport check-in (Business Class)
  • Preferred seating

Membership tiers granting Oneworld Ruby:

Oneworld Sapphire status is awarded to customers who have reached the second highest premium level of a member carrier's frequent flyer program.

Benefits of Oneworld Sapphire membership:

  • Priority reservations waitlisting
  • Priority airport stand-by
  • Priority airport check-in (Business Class)
  • Preferred seating
  • Priority boarding
  • Airport lounge access (Business Class)

Membership tiers granting Oneworld Sapphire:

Oneworld Emerald status is awarded to customers who have reached the highest premium level of a member carrier's frequent flyer program.

Benefits of Oneworld Emerald membership:

  • Priority reservations waitlisting
  • Priority airport stand-by
  • Priority airport check-in (Business/First Class)
  • Preferred seating
  • Priority boarding
  • Airport lounge access (Business/First Class)

Membership tiers granting Oneworld Emerald:

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