AA Update-oneworld Alliance

Seven other airlines will join at the same time, as affiliate members - LAN Argentina and LAN Ecuador and JAL associates JALways, Japan Asia Airways, JAL Express, J-AIR and Japan Transocean Air.

Sunday also sees Aer Lingus' withdrawal from oneworld, with its low-fare, point-to-point strategy no longer in line with the alliance's main focus on multi-sector, premium, frequent, international travelers.

The addition of the new recruits will expand oneworld substantially, to: Almost 700 airports, around a hundred more than now. · Nearly 150 countries. · 9,000 daily departures, a thousand more than today. · Around 315 million passengers, 65 million more than at present. · 265,000 employees. · Almost 2,500 aircraft. · Nearly US$90 billion annual revenues, up by a third.

Frequent flyer program members of the established oneworld airlines - American Airlines, British Airways, Cathay Pacific Airways, Finnair, Iberia, LAN Airlines and Qantas - will be able to earn and redeem awards and receive all other oneworld benefits on JAL, Malév, Royal Jordanian, LAN Argentina and LAN Ecuador. The networks of these airline recruits will also be covered by oneworld's extensive range of alliance fares and sales products.

Tens of thousands of employees from the airlines have participated in a special training program to ensure they can deliver the alliance's services and benefits from Day One, and dozens of its IT systems linked to those at the other oneworld airlines. Signage at the 700 airports served by the alliance's member airlines and at hundreds of sales outlets worldwide will be changed from Sunday to reflect oneworld's new membership line-up, as will all oneworld promotional material, stationery etc.

Dragonair, named China's best airline for the past five years by the SkyTrax airline quality organization and serving more destinations in Mainland China then any other airline based outside the mainland, will join oneworld as an affiliate member later this year.


AA Update-oneworld Alliance (Continued) Seven other airlines will join at the same time, as affiliate members - LAN Argentina and LAN Ecuador and JAL associates JALways, Japan Asia Airways, JAL Express, J-AIR and Japan Transocean Air. Sunday also sees Aer Lingus' withdrawal from oneworld, with its low-fare, point-to-point strategy no longer in line with the alliance's main focus on multi-sector, premium, frequent, international travelers. The addition of the new recruits will expand oneworld substantially, to: Almost 700 airports, around a hundred more than now. · Nearly 150 countries. · 9,000 daily departures, a thousand more than today. · Around 315 million passengers, 65 million more than at present. · 265,000 employees. · Almost 2,500 aircraft. · Nearly US$90 billion annual revenues, up by a third. Frequent flyer program members of the established oneworld airlines - American Airlines, British Airways, Cathay Pacific Airways, Finnair, Iberia, LAN Airlines and Qantas - will be able to earn and redeem awards and receive all other oneworld benefits on JAL, Malév, Royal Jordanian, LAN Argentina and LAN Ecuador. The networks of these airline recruits will also be covered by oneworld's extensive range of alliance fares and sales products. Tens of thousands of employees from the airlines have participated in a special training program to ensure they can deliver the alliance's services and benefits from Day One, and dozens of its IT systems linked to those at the other oneworld airlines. Signage at the 700 airports served by the alliance's member airlines and at hundreds of sales outlets worldwide will be changed from Sunday to reflect oneworld's new membership line-up, as will all oneworld promotional material, stationery etc. Dragonair, named China's best airline for the past five years by the SkyTrax airline quality organization and serving more destinations in Mainland China then any other airline based outside the mainland, will join oneworld as an affiliate member later this year.