Oneworld Alliance

Oneworld Alliance
Founding:	1999
Members:	13
Seat:	New York City , New York , United States
Frequent Flyer Program:	several
Fleet:	2772 As of Nov. 10, 2013

Aircraft of the Royal Jordanian Airlines in oneworld -Sonderlackierung

The Oneworld Alliance ( proper spelling oneworld Alliance ) is a global aviation alliance that was founded on February 1st, 1999. The founding members were American Airlines , British Airways , Canadian Airlines International , Cathay Pacific and Qantas Airways .

The alliance consists of 13 airlines , which serve a total of more than 1,000 destinations in 158 countries . The fleets consist of 3,400 machines that transport over 500 million passengers a year (as of 2017). Since 2003, the Oneworld Alliance has been voted the world's leading airline alliance at the World Travel Awards for the 14th time in a row since 2003 .

cooperation

The member companies cooperate with each other through code sharing and interlining . In addition, the respective status of the frequent flyer programs are mutually recognized. To this end, three alliance-wide status levels have been defined, Ruby , Sapphire and Emerald .

Members

The alliance consists of the members and so-called "Affiliated Societies". These are partner airlines of the respective members.

Surname	origin	logo	accession	PAX million / year	Planes	Affiliated companies
American Airlines	United States		February 1, 1999 (founding member)	89.1	820	American Eagle
British Airways	United Kingdom		February 1, 1999 (founding member)	30.6	267	BA Cityflyer , Comair and Sun Air of Scandinavia
Cathay Pacific	Hong Kong		February 1, 1999 (founding member)	26.8	144	Cathay Dragon
Finnair	Finland		09/01/1999	7.1	58	Nordic Regional Airlines
Iberia	Spain		09/01/1999	24.3	77	Air Nostrum and Iberia Express
Japan Airlines	Japan		04/01/2007	39.7	144	J-Air and Japan Transocean Air
Malaysia Airlines	Malaysia		02/01/2013	13	83	no
Qantas Airways	Australia		February 1, 1999 (founding member)	27.9	129	QantasLink and JetConnect
Qatar Airways	Qatar		10/30/2013	26.7	131	no
Royal Air Maroc	Morocco		04/01/2020	40.8	106	Royal Air Maroc Express
Royal Jordanian	Jordan		04/01/2007	3.0	32	no
SriLankan Airlines	Sri Lanka		05/01/2014	9.6	21st	no
S7 Airlines	Russia		11/15/2010	5.9	39	globe

oneworld connect

Surname	origin	logo	accession	PAX million / year	Planes	Affiliated companies
Fiji Airways	Fiji		June 2018 (first member)		9

In March 2019, Royal Brunei Airlines expressed an interest in becoming a member of oneworld connect.

Candidate countries

candidate	Country of origin	logo	planned joining	PAX million / year	Planes
Alaska Airlines	United States		Mid-2021		74

No further accessions had previously been finalized since Royal Air Maroc joined on April 1, 2020. As of 2016, Aer Lingus had plans to become a member of Oneworld again after the takeover by IAG .

China Southern Airlines is traded as a possible member, whereby (as of February 2019) a cooperation as a oneworld connect partner seems more likely.

former members

The following airlines were members of Oneworld and have left the alliance:

airline	Country of origin	logo	accession	exit	Reason for leaving	Affiliated companies
air Berlin	Germany		2012	2017	Cessation of business after bankruptcy	Niki
Aer Lingus	Ireland		2000	2007	Left the alliance voluntarily due to his own conceptual realignment; is currently planning to join again. Like British Airways and Iberia, it belongs to the International Airlines Group .
Canadian Airlines	Canada		1999	2000	Acquired by Star Alliance founding member Air Canada .
LATAM Airlines	Chile Brazil		2000/2014	2020	Possible change to another alliance	LATAM Airlines Argentina , LATAM Airlines Brasil , LATAM Airlines Colombia , LATAM Airlines Ecuador , LATAM Airlines Express and LATAM Airlines Perú
Malév	Hungary		2000	2012	Cessation of business after bankruptcy
Mexicana de Aviación	Mexico		2009	2010	Cessation of business after bankruptcy	MexicanaClick , MexicanaLink

Structural data

• Founding year: 1999
• Members: 13 (May 2020)
• countries served: 160 (2013)
• Airports served: 860 (2013)
• Passenger kilometers sold: 711.4 billion RPK (2006)
• IATA market share: 18% (2002)
• Passengers carried: 335.7 million (2011)
• Tonne kilometers: 43.7 million (only international traffic, 2002)
• Employees: 311,830 (2011)

See also

• List of airlines

literature

• Oneworld turns 20. In: Airliner World , April 2019, pp. 22-25

Web links

Commons : Oneworld Alliance  - collection of pictures, videos and audio files

• Web presence of the Oneworld Alliance

Individual evidence

1. ↑ ^{a b} oneworld at a glance ( English ) Oneworld Alliance. October 27, 2017. Retrieved October 28, 2017.
2. ↑ Oneworld on worldtravelawards.com, accessed on January 4, 2017
3. ↑ oneworld AT A GLANCE STATISTICS. (PDF) (No longer available online.) Oneworld.com, October 19, 2011, archived from the original on January 14, 2012 ; accessed on October 17, 2019 (English). 
4. ↑ oneworld affiliated airlines . Oneworld. Accessed January 30, 2019.
5. ↑ aero.de - Qatar Airways becomes a full member of oneworld October 29, 2013
6. ^ Royal Air Maroc is officially Oneworld's newest member
7. ↑ airliners.de March 7, 2014
8. ↑ oneworld connect. oneworld. Retrieved June 3, 2018.
9. ↑ Royal Brunei Airlines Mulls Oneworld Connect membership. ch-aviation , March 1, 2019.
10. ^ Aer Lingus CEO on US growth plans, oneworld frequent-flier alliance . USA Today on May 18, 2016, accessed January 6, 2017
11. ^ Oneworld Stays Cool on China Southern Joining Alliance. Skift, February 6, 2019.
12. ↑ Canadian to withdraw from oneworld on June 1 ( English ) Oneworld. March 15, 2000. Retrieved January 14, 2018.
13. ↑ Details | oneworld. Retrieved May 20, 2020 . 
14. ↑ oneworld alliance welcomes Mexicana on board ( English ) November 9, 2009. Accessed January 14, 2018.
15. ↑ Details | oneworld. Retrieved May 20, 2020 .