oneworld Special Fares Target France

Besides its very successful oneworld businessflyer product, oneworld Alliance also offers:

• asiaflyer - servicing Bangkok, Beijing, Denpasar, Fukuoka, Hong Kong, Jakarta, Kuala Lumpur, Manila, Nagoya, Osaka, Shanghai, Singapore, Taipei and Tokyo
• latinflyer servicing Bogota, Buenos Aires, Caracas, Guatemala, Guayquil, Lima, Managua, Mexico, Panama City, Quito, Rio de Janeiro, San Jose, San Pedro Sula, San Salvador, Santiago de Chile and Sao Paulo
• southernafricaflyer servicing Cape Town, Harare, Johannesburg and Lusaka

Asiaflyer, latinflyer and southernafricaflyer are available only for flights departing from France, using business class only. The plan will expand to other countries later.

Other oneworld fares available from France:

• oneworld Explorer - excellent, flexible round-the-world fare
• Global Explorer - a round-the-world fare with more airline options besides the oneworld members: Air Pacific, Gulf Air, Swiss International Air Lines, Polynesian and Australian Airlines
• Visit Passes - offering multi-sector flights on any oneworld airline in a specific continent once longhaul flight is completed to that continent. Visit Passes are best to explore a specific region. oneworld allianceis the only alliance with this type of fare on all six continents
• Circle Explorer - like oneworld Explorer, but without having to fly to North and South America, so it enables the traveler to fly halfway around the world and then back again without actually circling the globe. (i.e. London-Tokyo-Sydney-Jo’burg-London). No other airline alliance is able to offer a fare like this
• Circle Pacific - Another version of oneworld Explorer for traveling around the Pacific Ocean, covering Australia/NZ, Asia and North and South America
• eventflyer - Special fares offered to organizers of and delegates attending international conferences or conventions

Interline E-ticketing Across Entire oneworld Alliance

oneworld Alliance is making history again by announcing interline e-ticketing (IET) between all oneworld airline members on March 11, 2005.
So the competition is on the sideline once again watching that oneworld passengers can travel with just one electronic ticket throughout the enormous worldwide network of the oneworld alliance member airlines:

• American Airlines
• British Airways
• Quantas Airways
• Cathay Pacific Airways
• Iberia Airlines
• LAN Airlines
• Finnair
• Aer Lingus
• and oneworld Alliance’s 17 affiliates

At the time of this post oneworld alliance members fly to 603 destinations in 136 countries worldwide.

oneworld Alliance Is The World’s Best Airline Alliance

oneworld Alliance is once again the world’s Best Airline Alliance voted by the majority of frequent flyers. The report issued on September 21, 2004 is hardly surprising.

Since its launch oneworld Alliance has been cleaning up at aviation industry awards.
Its superiority is truly undeniable but if someone likes figures better well the other airline alliances are loosing money while oneworld’s profits are soaring.
I shall repeat this: the other alliances are LOOSING money which means negative earnings in other words they don’t have a clue.

This 2nd recognition in 3 years came from 2004 Business Traveller Awards.
Another announcement came from World Travel Awards tallying 80,000 votes from travel agents from more than 200 countries.

Airline Strategy Awards Reward oneworld Alliance

oneworld Alliance once again did an almost clear sweep of aviation awards at the 2004 Airline Strategy Awards, reported on July 19, 2004.
oneworld Alliance member airlines received 4 of the 6 awards crushing the airline alliance competition leaving other airlines completely humiliated. None of the other airline alliance members received an award.

The top prize, for Executive Leadership was awarded to Aer Lingus Chief Executive Willie Walsh.

The award for Marketing was awarded to LAN Airlines for the very successful unification efforts of LAN CHILE, LAN PERU, LAN ECUADOR AND LAN DOMINICA.

The Operations award was given to American Airlines for its successful organization of peaks at the Chicago O’Hare and Dallas/Fort Worth hubs.

The Technology prize went to British Airways for enabling passengers to manage their trips more effectively through their comprehensive British Airways website.

When it comes to quality customer service oneworld Alliance is far surpassing its (for now) larger airline alliance competitors. Greed is good as Michael Douglas said … in this example superior organizational skills and flexibility of a gigantic organization are resulting in fantastic growth.

World’s Best Airline Lounges Belong To oneworld Alliance

oneworld Alliance provides the best airport lounges as reported by Skytrax Research survey on June 30, 2004.

Based on 1.4 million votes the results are:

Overall best airport lounge winner: Cathay Pacific Airways - Wing and Pier Lounge in Hong Kong

World’s best First Class and best Business Class lounges: Cathay Pacific Airways

World’s 5th best Business Class lounges: Quantas Airways

World’s 5th best airport lounge: Quantas Airways

World’s 9th best airport lounge: British Airways

The voting criterias included: seating capacity, decor and ambiance, business facilities, washrooms, showers and leisure amenities, food and beverage, efficiency and friendliness of staff.

How about best lounge music??? Let’s just assume for now …

American Airlines Interline E-ticketing With All Aliance Members

American Airlines is the first airline in the world to establish interline e-ticketing with all its worldwide alliance partners.
The spectacular wes was announced on June 7, 2004.

Interline e-ticketing means that when passenger itineraries contain different airlines of oneworld Alliance, a SINGLE E-TICKET can be issued! How about 21st century perks!?

Paper tickets can be lost or stolen, it feels great to be emerging from the dark ages!!!

American Airlines provides interline e-ticketing beyond its oneworld Alliance partners:

• Alaska Airlines
• America West
• American Trans Air
• Aloha Airlines
• Continental Airlines
• Delta Airlines
• Hawaiian Airlines
• Midwest Airlines
• Northwest Airlines
• United Airlines
• US Airways
• KLM
• Copa Airlines

Swiss International Air Lines Not Joining Allaince

Swiss International Air Lines will not join oneworld Alliance as announced on June 3, 2004.
Am I disappointed? No! Am I surprised? No!
I was only surprised when I heard Swiss International Air Lines wold join oneworld Alliance.

The Swiss giving up their independence obsession and form a partnership? For now it shall remain a dream.

oneworld Alliance Wins Most At Skytrax Airline Of The Year

oneworld Alliance cleared house against their competitors at Skytrax Airline Of The Year Awards as reported on April 28, 2004.
From close to 11 million votes by more than 90 nationalities the undisputed airline alliance champion is oneworld Alliance!

Cathay Pacific Airways took top honors for Best First Class, Quantas Airways being 2nd. British Airways was voted Best Business Class, Quantas Airways 3rd.

Business Travelers Enjoy 50% Airfare Discount

Select French businesses have been given an offer from oneworld Airline Alliance which surely cannot refuse as announced on April 27, 2004.

French companies will receive specially discounted businessflyer tickets which can be used on the world’s biggest and best airlines to more than 250 destinations in Europe, North America, South American, Asia and Australiasia.

The success of the German version of businessflyer tickets encouraged oneworld to further expand the offer.

Members of any oneworld airline’s frequent flyer programs are able to earn mileage rewards and points when flying on businessflyer fares. Nice touch!

Beijing Welcomes Cathay Pacific After 13 Years

Cathay Pacific Airways is once again flying to mainland China.

Holding a grudge is fun for some so this renewed route between Cathay Pacific Airways’ Hong Kong hub and Beijing is a welcomed breath of fresh air after a 13-year break.

Two other oneworld Alliance partners British Airways and Finnair also fly to Beijing.

British Airways Says Hola To Iberia

British Airways and Iberia Airlines have establishes the European equivalent of anti-trust immunity.

The agreement announced on December 11, 2003 ensures greater competitiveness increased efficiency between the oneworld Alliance members. Partial code sharing already exist between Iberia Airlines and British Airways.

Qantas Cathay Pacific and American Airlines E-ticket Interlining

Quantas Airways, Cathay Pacific Airways and American Airlines, 3 of the founding airlines of oneworld Alliance have announced e-ticket interlining on November 13, 2003.

If you are good at spotting pattens you can see the plan of all oneworld Alliance member will be interlined in the near future.

One for all and all for one. Worked for those swordsman and it will propel oneworld Alliance to greater efficiency and profits!

oneworld Alliance Is 5 Years Old

Happy 5th Birthday wishes are due to oneworld Airline Alliance on October 23, 2003.
oneworld Airline Alliance has been tremendously successful, their business model including decentralized management organization is a model for any of the other money loosing airline alliances.

The ability to constantly adopt and improve is crucial in the ever changing and fiercely competitive airline alliance market.
If oneworld Airline Alliance cannot measure up I will have to start a new blog!
Go get ‘em boys!!!

Swiss International Air Lines Part Of oneworld Airline Alliance

Swiss International Air Lines is joining the oneworld Airline Alliance as announced on September 23, 2003.

The Swiss is pretty hard working bunch so the process to comply with oneworld Airline Alliance rules, regulations and standards should precede at a speedy manner.

This means connecting their computer networks, training employees and most certainly brand new stationary!

American Airlines And British Airways Code-sharing

Code-sharing between American Airlines and British Airways is big news from oneworld Airline Alliance, it was revealed on September 17, 2003.

Both American Airlines and British Airways are founding members so this is long overdue and a bit like a married couple making peace and finally talking to each other!

This blockbuster announcement follows the most recent code-sharing between Cathay Pacific Airways and Quantas Airways last week.
If we do the math this means code-sharing is now effective between 20 of the potential 28 code-sharing pairings of oneworld airline partners.

When the parents are happy the kids are happy, travelers can transfer between their networks at a greater efficiency and fly to the 562 destinations with less of a chance of a major screw-up.

E-ticket Interlining Between American Airlines and LanChile

American Airlines and LanChile will be interline electronic ticketing partners as announced on July 14, 2003.

With interline e-ticketing passengers do not need to have paper tickets which means more efficient transfers between airlines.

Code-sharing Between American Airlines And Cathay Pacific

Code sharing between 2 of the founding airlines of oneworld Alliance: American Airlines and Cathay Pacific Airways is a landmark act as announced on January 29, 2003.

Up to this date 18 of the 28 code-sharing possibilities are a reality.
Code-sharing is one of the most efficient aspects of coordinating member airline flight schedules and optimizing airport transfers.

Best Airline Alliance For Frequent Flyers

And the Best Airline Alliance Award does to oneworld Alliance! Voted by frequent flyers the world’s 3rd largest airline alliance was the recipient of this award of the travel industry during the 2002 Business Traveller Awards and announced on September 25, 2002.

British Airways was voted Best Airline overall in the Best Business Class, Best First Class, Best Shorthaul Airline, Best Frequent Flyer Program, Best Cabin Staff and Most Innovative Airline categories.

American Airlines received the Best North American Airline for the 10th year.

Code-sharing Between More oneworld Alliance Members

oneworld Alliance is introducing more code-sharing within its member airlines, no doubt increasing check in efficiency across multiple member airlines.
The fantastic news was made public on June 4, 2002.

Sharing is caring so the following code-sharing expansions will benefit everyone:

• Qantas Airways - Finnair
• Finnair - Iberia
• American Airlines - LanChile
• American Airlines - Qantas Airways
• Finnair - Qantas
• Qantas - LanChile
• American Airlines - Finnair
• Aer Lingus - British Airways

Code sharing enables better coordination when multiple oneworld Alliance member airlines are part of the same itinerary!

Hong Kong Loves oneworld Alliance

Hong Kong and oneworld Alliance is a match made in Asia.
Hong Kong is the main base of Cathay Pacific which is one of the founders of oneworld Alliance. Cathay Pacific offers an average of 151 flights a day from Hong Kong International Airport to 44 cities in 26 countries.

British Airways has been flying to Hong Kong since 1936 flying 2 daily return flights to London.

Qantas Airways links Hong Kong with five cities in Australia – Sydney, Brisbane, Cairns, Melbourne and Perth – with a total of 29 departures a week. Qantas Airways first flew to Hong Kong in 1949 and no they did not just get lost!

Finnair flies to Hong Kong via Bangkok, Thailand starting on February 7, 2002.

American Airlines plans to fly between Hong Kong and Chicago non-stop in the near future.

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