Oneworld

Oneworld is an airline alliance founded on 1 February 1999. The alliance's stated objective is to be the first-choice airline alliance for the world's frequent international travellers. Its central alliance office is in Manhattan, New York, United States. As of October 2017, Oneworld is the third-largest global alliance in terms of passengers, its member airlines collectively operate a fleet of 3,447 aircraft, serve about 1,000 airports in more than 158 countries.

The airline alliance carrying 527.9 million passengers per year on 12,738 daily departures and generating annual revenues of more than US$130 billion.

In 2011, the alliance headquarters relocated from Vancouver, Canada, to Park Avenue in New York City, sharing premises with the local offices of a number of Oneworld member airlines including American Airlines, British Airways, Cathay Pacific, Finnair, Japan Airlines, and Qantas.

Benefits can consist of:

• An extended network, often realised through codeshare agreements. Many alliances started as only codeshare networks.

Cost reduction from sharing of:

• sales offices
• maintenance facilities
• operational facilities, e.g. catering or computer systems
• operational staff, e.g. ground handling personnel, at check-in and boarding desks
• investments and purchases, e.g. in order to negotiate extra volume discounts

Traveler benefits can include:

• lower prices due to lowered operational costs for a given route
• more departure times to choose from on a given route
• more destinations within easy reach
• shorter travel times as a result of optimised transfers
• a wider range of airport lounges shared with alliance members
• fast track access on all alliance members if having frequent flyer status
• faster mileage rewards by earning miles for a single account on several different carriers
• round-the-world tickets, enabling travelers to fly over the world for a relatively low price

Airline alliances may also create disadvantages for the traveler, such as higher prices when competition is erased on a certain route and less frequent flights.

Contact Information

Headquarters

2 Park Ave (E 33rd St.)
New York, NY 10016
United States

Website: www.oneworld.com

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