Category Archives: Oneworld

SriLankan Airlines to join the Oneworld alliance in late 2013

SriLankan Airlines (Colombo) will join the Oneworld alliance.

Its election as a Oneworld member designate was announced as the Chief Executives of the alliance’s member airlines gathered for a meeting of the group’s Board at IATA’s 2012 World Air Transport Summit.

SriLankan is expected to be implemented into Oneworld late next year, flying alongside some of the biggest and best brands in the airline business. Cathay Pacific will serve as its sponsor in joining oneworld, supporting the airline through its alliance implementation program.

SriLankan already codeshares with oneworld member designate Malaysia Airlines – and today announced agreement in principle to codeshare also with oneworld partners Royal Jordanian and S7 Airlines.

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American Airlines and QANTAS Airways expand their relationship

American Airlines Boeing 767-323 N395AN (msn 29432) (Oneworld) MIA (Brian McDonough), originally uploaded by Airliners Gallery.

American Airlines (Dallas/Fort Worth) and QANTAS Airways (Sydney), members of the oneworld® Alliance, announced the next phase of their deepening commercial relationship, expanding the number of routes on which the airlines will codeshare between major cities across North America and Australia.

QANTAS will codeshare on American Airlines flights to 28 new destinations from Dallas/Fort Worth International Airport (DFW), American’s largest hub. American Airlines will begin codesharing on QANTAS services between Sydney and Dallas/Fort Worth as well as domestic services from Brisbane to Adelaide, Canberra, Cairns, Melbourne and Perth.

Oneworld Interactive World Route Map: CLICK HERE

Oneworld to move to New York with a new CEO

American Airlines Boeing 767-323 ER N395AN (msn 29432) (Oneworld) MIA (Arnd Wolf), originally uploaded by Airliners Gallery.

Oneworld (Vancouver) is moving its headquarters to New York.

S7 Airlines joins the Oneworld Alliance

S7 Airlines (Sibir Airlines) Airbus A320-214 VP-BCS (msn 3490) DME (OSDU) (joins Oneworld), originally uploaded by Airliners Gallery.

S7 Airlines (Ob) joined the Oneworld Alliance on November 15.

Air Berlin to join the Oneworld Alliance

Air Berlin (Airberlin.com) Boeing 737-86J WL D-ABKM (msn 37755) PAE (Nick Dean) (latest delivery), originally uploaded by Airliners Gallery.

Air Berlin (stylized as airberlin) (airberlin.com) (Berlin-Tegel) is planning to join oneworld®, adding Europe’s fifth largest airline and Germany’s second biggest carrier to the airline alliance.

Air Berlin Group member Niki (Vienna) will become an affiliate member of the alliance.

A memorandum of understanding (MOU) between Air Berlin and oneworld was completed in the airline’s Berlin home city last night (July 26), with a formal alliance membership agreement to be signed soon.

Air Berlin is expected to start flying as part of oneworld in early 2012 – just weeks before the opening of the new Berlin Brandenburg International Airport, which is being built as a major new hub for Europe.

American Airlines applies for DFW-Rio de Janeiro authority

American Airlines Boeing 767-323 ER N395AN (msn 29432) (Oneworld) MIA, originally uploaded by Airliners Gallery.

American Airlines (Dallas/Fort Worth) has applied to the U.S. Department of Transportation (DOT) for authority to fly nonstop from Dallas/Fort Worth International Airport (DFW) to Rio de Janeiro (GIG) three times a week beginning on November 18, 2010.

American will fly the route using Boeing 767-300 aircraft configured with 28 Business Class and 191 Economy Class seats.

Here is the proposed schedule:

From DFW to GIG (Tuesdays, Thursdays and Saturdays)
Depart: 7:45 p.m.
Arrive: 10:25 a.m. (next day)

From GIG TO DFW (Wednesdays, Fridays and Sundays)
Depart: 11:15 p.m.
Arrive: 6:25 a.m. (next day)

Copyright Photo: Arnd Wolf. American’s Boeing 767-323 ER N395AN (msn 29432) in the Oneworld Alliance motif arrives back at the MIA hub.

Mexicana introduces an Airbus A320 Oneworld logojet

Mexicana (Mexico City) has introduced its first Airbus A320 Oneworld logojet. The airline use to have Star Alliance logojets when it was in that alliance.

American Airlines introduces its first Boeing 757 Oneworld logojet

Copyright Photo: Robert Collazo. Boeing 757-223 N174AA (msn 31308) made its first visit in the new scheme to the Miami hub.

American Airlines (Dallas/Fort Worth) has now introduced its first Boeing 757 in the colors of the Oneworld Alliance.

British Airways to axe 1,200 jobs after a large loss

British Airways Boeing 747-436 G-CIVP (msn 28850) (Oneworld) LHR, originally uploaded by Airliners Gallery.

British Airways (London) will axe another 1,200 positions after suffering a six-month loss of $485 million.

News link:

news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/business/8345912.stm

http://airlinersgallery.com/2/19a8148/#/gallery/british-airways/british-airways-747-400-g-civp-97-union-flag-oneworld-tko-lhr-kd-lr-902325/

Boeing delivers 777-367 B-KPL in Oneworld colors

Cathay Pacific 777-367 ER B-KPL (msn 36161) (09-Oneworld) PAE, originally uploaded by Airliners Gallery.

Boeing (Chicago, Seattle, Wichita and Charleston, SC) on October 17 delivered the new 777-367 ER B-KPL (msn 36161) to BOC Aviation for its customer Cathay Pacific Airways (Hong Kong). The jetliner is painted in the Oneworld color scheme. B-KPL is the 12th 777-367 ER for Cathay Pacific.

News link:

finance.yahoo.com/news/Boeing-Delivers-Cathay-prnews-2222565602.html?x=0&.v=1

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http://airlinersgallery.com/2/23c36af/#/gallery/whats-new-hot-new-photos/cathay-pacific-777-300-b-kpl-09-oneworld-apr-pae-r2-lr-903764/