New Site Makes it Easier to Check Schedules and Destinations; More Information on Alliance's Fares Also Included VANCOUVER, Canada, Aug. 31 /PRNewswire-FirstCall/ -- oneworld(TM), the leading quality global airline alliance, has unveiled a new, more user- friendly Web site (http://www.oneworld.com/ ), making it easier to check flight schedules across its unrivalled global network, see where its member airlines fly and learn how to book reservations with oneworld member airlines. oneworld.com has been completely redesigned with a fresh, stylish look, easier-to-follow navigation and new features including: * An interactive network map, showing every destination that oneworld airlines serve, as well as the routes they fly from each of those airports. * The ability to check, directly from the site's home-page, schedules for its member airlines, affiliates and code-share partners, along with more direct links to each airline's own Web site for customers who want to book flights online. * More detailed information on the alliance's unrivalled range of fares, including downloadable brochures in a choice of nine languages, maps showing sample itineraries and an interactive tool to help plan round- the-world journeys. * Specific sites, in local languages, tailored to key countries including Canada, France, Germany, Japan, the Netherlands and Switzerland, with pages dedicated to travel agents in each of those countries. * Extensive links to the appropriate pages of its member airlines' own Web sites for customers who want more information about them or the alliance. "Our overall objective in relaunching oneworld.com is to make it more useful to our customers, rather than simply providing basic information about the alliance," said oneworld Vice President-Commercial Nicolas Ferri. "So we've made it easier for visitors to find the site's most popular features and added new elements we know will be immensely popular, like our new interactive network map." In addition to the new enhancements, popular features that had already been on the site have been retained and improved, such as: * Timetables covering flights offered by all oneworld member airlines, downloadable in formats for PCs and PDAs, or in PDF format. * Details of oneworld's services and benefits for frequent flyers. * Guides to key alliance hub airports and cities. * A new airport lounge directory with information on more than 400 lounges worldwide. * The alliance's online pressroom, including the latest news, background information and downloadable logos and pictures. oneworld's existing member airlines -- American Airlines, British Airways, Qantas, Cathay Pacific, Iberia, LAN, Finnair and Aer Lingus, plus their 12 affiliates -- today serve more than 600 destinations in some 135 countries with more than 8,150 daily flights. Early next year, they will be joined by Japan Airlines and five of its affiliates, plus Malev Hungarian and Royal Jordanian, expanding coverage to nearly 100 more destinations and a half-dozen more countries, taking daily departures to more than 9,000. About oneworld oneworld brings together some of the best and biggest names in the airline business -- American Airlines, British Airways, Qantas, Iberia, Cathay Pacific, LAN, Finnair and Aer Lingus, plus their dozen affiliates. Japan Airlines, Malev Hungarian and Royal Jordanian will join them early next year. The alliance enables its members to offer their customers more services and benefits than any airline can provide on its own. These include a broader route network, opportunities to earn and redeem frequent flyer miles and points across the combined oneworld network, and more airport lounges. oneworld is the only alliance to enable passengers to fly throughout its network, on any combination of carriers, using just electronic tickets. oneworld was voted the World's Leading Airline Alliance for the third year running in the latest World Travel Awards, which are based on votes cast by 80,000 travel agency professionals from more than 200 countries, and was selected the World's Best Airline Alliance by readers of Business Traveller magazine for the second year running in its 2005 poll. Note: LAN affiliates LAN Ecuador and LAN Argentina are not members of oneworld. DATASOURCE: oneworld CONTACT: Michael Blunt, Corporate Communications of oneworld, +44-20-8738-5173, or +44-7711-997487, or ; or Media Relations of Aer Lingus, +353-1-886-2573, or ; or Corporate Communications of American Airlines, +1-817-967-1577, or ; or Press Office of British Airways, +44-20-8738-5100, or ; or Corporate Communications of Cathay Pacific, +852-2747-8282; or Corporate Communications of Finnair, +358-981-84970; or Communications of Iberia, +34-91-587-7462, or ; or Corporate Communications of LAN, +562-565-3975; or Corporate Communications of Qantas, +61-2-9691-3742 Web site: http://www.aa.com/ http://www.oneworld.com/ http://www.oneworld.com/pressroom http://www.aerlingus.com/ http://www.aa.com/pressreleases http://www.ba.com/press http://www.cathaypacific.com/ http://www.finnair.com/ http://www.iberia.com/ http://www.lan.com/ http://www.qantas.com/

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