oneworld Voted Leading Airline Alliance for Fifth Year Running
18 Diciembre 2007 - 9:55AM
PR Newswire (US)
VANCOUVER, British Columbia, Dec. 18 /PRNewswire/ -- The
oneworld(R) Alliance has been named the world's leading airline
alliance for the fifth year running in the World Travel Awards,
which are described by the Wall Street Journal as the "travel
industry's equivalent of the Oscars." The awards, which were
presented last week at a gala ceremony in the Caribbean's Turks
& Caicos Islands, are based on votes cast by some 170,000
travel professionals and agents worldwide. oneworld has won the
award for leading airline alliance every year since the category
was introduced in 2003. "oneworld is delighted to have received
this tremendous vote of confidence once again from some of the most
knowledgeable people in the travel industry worldwide," said
Michael Blunt, oneworld's Vice President of Corporate
Communications. "It reflects the quality of our airline members and
our commitment to deliver alliance customer service better than
anyone else. It's a wonderful way to end what has been a
record-breaking year for oneworld." In other top categories, member
airline British Airways was named the world's leading airline for
the third year running; Cathay Pacific was selected as having the
world's leading First Class product; and American Airlines was
honored for the world's leading Economy Class. The leading alliance
award is the culmination of a record year for oneworld, with 11
airlines becoming participants in the Alliance, expanding its
network to approximately 100 more destinations. Alliance partners
also share more facilities in terminals at key airports to smooth
customers' journeys, and oneworld generates more revenues than ever
before for its member airlines. Just last month, oneworld completed
its biggest expansion since its launch eight years ago with the
addition of China's Dragonair, an affiliate of Cathay Pacific,
following the recruitment earlier this year of Japan Airlines and
five of its affiliates, plus Malev Hungarian Airlines, Royal
Jordanian, and LAN affiliates LAN Argentina and LAN Ecuador.
Together, they expanded the Alliance's network to about 700
destinations in nearly 150 countries. Also last month, oneworld
opened its first airport lounge developed as an Alliance project,
at Los Angeles. That followed the consolidation earlier this year
of Alliance operations in Terminal 2 at new oneworld hub Tokyo
Narita. About oneworld oneworld brings together some of the best
and biggest names in the airline business -- American Airlines,
British Airways, Cathay Pacific, Finnair, Iberia, Japan Airlines,
LAN, Malev Hungarian Airlines, Qantas and Royal Jordanian, plus
more than 20 affiliates. China's Dragonair joined as an affiliate
on Nov. 1. 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 airlines, using electronic tickets. DATASOURCE:
oneworld CONTACT: Michael Blunt, VP Corp Comms of oneworld, +44
7789 612712, ; or Corporate Communications of American Airlines,
+1-817-967-1577, ; or Press Office of British Airways, +44 20 8738
5100, ; 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 Stephen Pearlman of
JAL, +81 3 5460 3109, ; or Corporate Communications of LAN, +562
565 3975; or Krisztina Nemeth, Corporate Comms of Malev, +36 1 235
3331, +36 20 555 4150, ; or Corporate Communications of Qantas, +61
2 9691 3473; or Hussein Dabbas of Royal Jordanian, +962 6 520 2500
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