Which alliance does finnair belong to. Oneworld Aviation Alliance

oneworld was founded in 1999 and became the second international aviation alliance in the world after . Now it is the third largest alliance, uniting 13 airlines from different parts of the world. Russia is represented in oneworld by S7 Airlines, the second largest carrier in the country in terms of fleet and route network. The founding members of the alliance were American Airlines (USA), British Airways (UK), Canadian Airlines (Canada), Cathay Pacific (Hong Kong) and QANTAS (Australia).

The main thing you need to know about the oneworld alliance:

The oneworld alliance brings together 13 full members, 30 affiliated companies (included in the same group of companies with the main carrier) and 1 more airline currently claims to join the alliance as a full member. Here is a complete list of airlines that are now full members of the alliance:

Oneworld member airlines
	american airlines A country: USA; -- Destinations: 330; -- Number of countries: 50; -- Number of aircraft: 952; -- Joined the alliance: 1999 (founder of the alliance).
	british airways A country: Great Britain; -- Destinations: 200; -- Number of countries: 90; -- Number of aircraft: 271; -- Joined the alliance: 1999 (founder of the alliance).
	cathay pacific A country: Hong Kong; -- Destinations: 90; -- Number of countries: 35; -- Number of aircraft: 145; -- Joined the alliance: 1999 (founder of the alliance).
	A country: Finland; -- Destinations: 65; -- Number of countries: 30; -- Number of aircraft: 67; -- Joined the alliance: 1999.
	Iberia A country: Spain; -- Destinations: 110; -- Number of countries: 40; -- Number of aircraft: 80; -- Joined the alliance: 1999.
	Japan Airlines A country: Japan; -- Destinations: 80; -- Number of countries: 20; -- Number of aircraft: 162; -- Joined the alliance: 2007.
	LATAM A country: Chile; -- Destinations: 107; -- Number of countries: 33; -- Number of aircraft: 311; -- Joined the alliance: 2000.
	Malaysia Airlines A country: Malaysia; -- Destinations: 80; -- Number of countries: 23; -- Number of aircraft: 80; -- Joined the alliance: 2013.
	QANTAS A country: Australia; -- Destinations: 80; -- Number of countries: 20; -- Number of aircraft: 131; -- Joined the alliance: 1999 (founder of the alliance).
	Qatar Airways A country: Qatar; -- Destinations: 150; -- Number of countries: 48; -- Number of aircraft: 214; -- Joined the alliance: 2013.
	Royal Jordanian A country: Jordan; -- Destinations: 60; -- Number of countries: 40; -- Number of aircraft: 25; -- Joined the alliance: 2007.
	S7 Airlines A country: Russia; -- Destinations: 100; -- Number of countries: 30; -- Number of aircraft: 86; -- Joined the alliance: 2010.
	SriLankan Airlines A country: Sri Lanka; -- Destinations: 50; -- Number of countries: 25; -- Number of aircraft: 26; -- Joined the alliance: 2014.

Although the Alliance loses in terms of the number of participants (26 airlines) and (20 airlines), but in terms of the total size of the fleet and the number of destinations, it is almost on a par with Skyteam. Largely due to the fact that the key airlines of the alliance are the huge fleet of American and the large Qatar Airways, British Airways, QANTAS and LATAM.

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If we talk about airlines from Europe, then there are only three of them in oneworld:

• British British Airways
• Finnish;
• and Spanish Iberia.

Russia is represented in oneworld by S7 Airlines, which, before joining the international alliance, significantly improved the quality of service, updated its aircraft fleet, replacing obsolete Soviet aircraft with modern Airbus, Boeing and Embraer aircraft. Now the carrier fully complies with all international standards of safety and quality of service.

It is possible that over time oneworld will add another carrier from Russia, but at the moment the alliance announces its plans to expand its presence in other regions - especially in Africa and China. Oneworld is practically not represented there now, unlike Star Alliance and SkyTeam.

Oneworld Member Airlines Rewards Programs

There is no single-brand rewards program at oneworld, however, all participating airlines recognize the reward points of other alliance partners. It is enough to register in one bonus program of any of the members of the alliance and accumulate points from any flights made on the flights of oneworld members to this bonus account.

The accumulated points can also be spent on the services of any alliance airline. And here is the list of privileges that opens for members of the oneworld bonus program:

The main thing is that registration in several programs of different carriers is not required - it's convenient!

And one more distinctive feature of the oneworld alliance bonus program. You can accumulate points not only on flights of full members of the alliance, but also on affiliated airlines (usually subsidiaries of one or another carrier).

oneworld security & accidents

Today oneworld has very strict requirements for member airlines. Security standards are the same for the entire alliance. Before joining, each airline goes through a series of serious certification procedures. They show its compliance with the requirements and standards.

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Each air carrier applying for entry into oneworld undergoes an external audit. It includes checking the company for 118 items. Most of them are related to security.

We have searched international air crash databases to find all fatal accidents that have occurred on oneworld airlines.

• American Airlines has had two plane crashes since joining oneworld. Two planes with passengers were destroyed on September 11, 2001 during the terrorist attacks in New York. And in November of the same year, an Airbus A300 crashed - the tail stabilizer fell off the plane. 260 people on board died.
• In July 2007, an Airbus A320 of LAN Brasil (now LATAM Airlines Brasil) skidded off the runway while landing in Sao Paulo and crashed into a warehouse building. All 187 passengers were killed, as well as the crew and 12 people on the ground.
• In August 2011, a Boeing 737 of LAN Colombia (now LATAM Airlines Colombia) crashed while landing. 2 people died, 114 were injured. The cause of the disaster was a lightning strike on the plane.
• Two disasters in 2014 happened to the liners of Malaysia Airlines. In March, Boeing 777 flight MH370 disappeared from radar screens with 239 passengers on board. Even the approximate place where the plane crashed is still unknown. The second airliner (also a Boeing 777) was shot down in July of the same year in the sky over Ukraine. 298 people on board were killed.

Note! We have analyzed accidents with aircraft of one or another airline only from the moment it joined the alliance! We took into account only incidents that resulted in the death of passengers.

There have also been several crashes and cases of loss of aircraft from different airlines, but they did without the loss of passengers or people on the ground. Accidents with S7 Airlines aircraft happened long before the airline joined the alliance.

oneworld development prospects

For all international alliances, one of the most promising markets now is Indian. Oneworld is not currently represented there. Also, there are no African airlines in the alliance or frequent flights to African countries. It is logical to assume that these are the main directions of the alliance's development.

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On the other hand, oneworld has a strong presence in most of Latin America thanks to LATAM. And in Asia by Malaysia Airlines and SriLankan.

It is possible that one or more airlines from Europe will join the alliance in the near future. And in 2018, the national airline of the Republic of Fiji, Fiji Airlines (formerly Air Pacific), is expected to join the alliance.

INone worldare includedairberlin, American Airlines, British Airways, Cathay Pacific, Finnair, Iberia, Japan Airlines, LAN, Mexicana, Qantas, Royal Jordanian, S7 Airlines.

http://www.oneworld.com/member-airlines/

A major Oneworld partner in Asia is Cathay Pacific. In North America, American Airlines. In Europe, British Airway. Each company of the alliance has its own secrets. Proper use of the alliance will make it possible to use the accumulated miles in the most profitable way.

Oneworld also has a Russian participant - S7, or as they are often called in the old fashioned way, Siberia. S7 is not a big airline by world standards, but being part of an alliance gives it great opportunities. S7 has bases (hubs) in Moscow, Irkutsk and Novosibirsk and for a frequent flyer living in the former CIS, S7 is probably the most interesting airline. Their miles are worthless, but using the miles of other members of the alliance to get award flights on S7 flights is very profitable, especially given the extremely low tax fees.

In our experience, the most rewarding Oneworld miles are British Airways and American. American Airlines has a geographically regional award table (similar to United in Star Alliance) and they charge minimal taxes when they receive an award ticket. As we wrote earlier, these taxes are often so high that they call into question the rationality of using miles to purchase a ticket. Accordingly, you can fly from Moscow to New York for 60,000 American Airlines miles (and in the off-season for 40,000) and a fee of about 60 dollars. I want to compare with AirFrance where the same ticket costs 50,000 AirFrance miles and 500 dollars in taxes (AirFrance has many advantages, which we will talk about later).

British Airways (similar to ANA in Star Alliance) base ticket premium prices on the actual distance between origin and destination (regardless of region). This enables short flights (ideally non-stop) with the fewest miles required. Thus, a flight C7 Beijing-Yekaterinburg costs only 20,000 British Airways miles. The same flight would have cost American Airlines 40,000 miles since Beijing is in the Asian region and Yekaterinburg is in the European region.

Don't forget that British Airways only benefits on short flights (the number of miles you need per flight is not based on the distance between where you're flying from and where you're flying), but on long intercontinental flights, it's best to collect miles from other partners like American Airlines. (We'll write more about the secrets of British Airways later.) For example, you can fly American Airlines, collect British Airways miles, and spend those miles on an S7.

INone worldThere is three status: Ruby, Sapphire, and Emerald.We will tell you how to get Oneworld status later.

Oneworld is the third largest aviation alliance in the world after Star Alliance and SkyTeam.

Voted Best Airline Alliance in 2004 by the Business Traveler Awards and named Leading Worldwide Airline Alliance for a four-year period in 2006 by the World Travel Awards. In the same year, it carried 321 million passengers in a total of about 2,300 aircraft.

After a major expansion in 2007, the alliance now serves over 700 destinations in nearly 150 countries worldwide with over 9,000 daily flights.

In 2010, the alliance brought together 11 of the world's leading airlines and over 20 affiliates, connecting more than 800 cities around the world by air. American Airlines is proud to be a founding member of this alliance. For six years in a row, the prestigious industry organization World Travel Awards has been recognized as the world's leading airline alliance.

The largest airline in Mexico and Central America has accepted an official invitation to join the alliance of the world's leading airlines. Oneworld is the only airline alliance that has full Australian coverage (Qantas) and the only alliance with a South American member (LAN Airlines).

The member airlines and their subsidiaries are distinguished by a high degree of cooperation in planning, ticket sales, loyalty programs, flight connections, code sharing, airport terminal sharing, which reduces costs and allows the exchange of experience. The members of the alliance also apply the same principles of work, as far as possible, pursue the same policies and use the same procedures, and cooperate in the technological field. Alliance members' costs are optimized through single purchases.

They offer their customers a network of routes around the world and a range of services that no single airline could offer. This makes air travel more convenient for passengers than ever before. Prices depend on the class of service (economy, business or first) and, what distinguishes this offer from others, on the number of continents visited, and not on the total duration of the route.

This greatly facilitates travel planning. The offer covers flights from all eleven member airlines or their subsidiaries, covering nearly 800 destinations worldwide. Explorer is the best choice for anyone who is going on a trip around the world visiting all continents. It is important to note that Qantas, a member airline of the alliance, is the only member of the global air carrier alliance with an extensive network of domestic flights in Australia.

Members and affiliated members of the alliance:

American Airlines, American Eagle, Executive Air, AmericanConnection Chautauqua Airlines, Trans States Airlines, British Airways, BA CityFlyer, Comair, GB Airways, Loganair, Sun Air, Cathay Pacific, Dragonair, Finnair, Iberia, Air Nostrum, Japan Airlines, Japan Asia Airways, JALways, JAL Express, Japan Transocean Air, J-Air, LAN, LAN Peru, LAN Express, LAN Argentina, LAN Ecuador, Malév Hungarian Airlines, Mexicana, Qantas Airways, JetConnect, QantasLink, Eastern Australia Airlines, Southern Australia Airlines, Sunstate Airlines, National Jet Systems, Royal Jordanian.

Every year we flew with the S7 airline to Verona for the ski

wheelchair, and not only to Verona. We're kind of their regular customers. Usually big
a group of several families. The company provided free transportation
sports luggage, namely: skis, ski poles or snowboard, sports
clothing, helmet, goggles, etc. There were no problems, except that I was spoiled twice
bugs. Once a sports bag received through holes rubbed with something before
holes (the cost of the bag is about $ 500), the second time they made a hole in the suitcase
Samsonite, specially bought lightweight expensive suitcases for travel
(cost approximately $700). Both times these facts were recorded in
airport after receiving the baggage, they said to contact the S7 airline, they said that our
the appeal is considered, after a few months they again continue
consider, in a word, complete rudeness and disregard for customers, now
I will go to court and see the result.
But
all these stories could be considered force majeure, well, with whom it doesn’t happen, they could
damage luggage during transportation at the airport, on the belt, during transshipment, etc.
airline S7, then what does it have to do with it!?
But
really finished off something else - these are specific divorces, which the air carrier
practices. Let me give you an example: we are flying as a family, five people, three children, with a baby
a child of 6 months, we are invited to register without a queue, nice ... ..
we ask the girl not to register to put me and my wife together so that
opportunity to help her with the baby. The girl looks at us with tenderness and
offers us to pay extra and fly in business class, explains that the surcharge is small,
but with a child it will be very convenient. We
we figure it out, we decide to leave the older children in the main cabin, and fly ourselves
in business. We quickly redirected to another window to pay extra, we
we approach, we pay extra for business class, a nice girl checks us in for a flight,
We receive boarding passes and are happy to land. We go into the salon, skip
older children ahead and start searching for our seats in business class, looking forward to
unforgettable impressions of the flight, we can’t understand where these heavenly places are,
blocking the passage for all passengers. The stewardess comes up and kindly says that
Our seats are not in business class, but right behind it. We show receipts
we are trying to explain everything, to which they tell us that all the seats are occupied, and upon arrival at
airport, you can solve everything with a representative of the airline S7. Well, don’t make a fuss on the plane, otherwise
they will also be accused of terrorism, we go to our places, it turns out this bitch is on the counter
registration also put us in different places. Thanks to the neighbors who went
to meet us and changed places so that the baby and I had the opportunity
sit next to. We arrive, and they tell us that the surcharge was for increased seats
comfort, although this is not written anywhere, and if we were against it, we could not
fly!!! How is that? Ask to take us off the flight, take out our luggage??? How is that??? A
now, they say, go away, the service was used, so the question is settled. But it's not all adventures with the airline
S7.
In 2018
year we are flying to skiing in Verona, as I wrote above, equipment is offered
for transportation free of charge. We bought special backpacks for boots, helmets,
sportswear, etc. We fly without skis, we rent them. On registration
a well-fed aunt misses one such bag, which leaves for loading,
when we lay out the second backpack, she asks: “What is in it?”, We answer that
boots, helmets, goggles and sportswear. She says that this luggage is necessary
pay additionally, as free transportation is offered
exclusively: boots, skis, helmet, goggles and nothing about sportswear
written because they changed the rules of transportation. Sorry, we are not the first to fly
a year, before it was possible, now it is impossible, then why was one bag missed? One
in a word, the aunt starts yelling, calling some bully for help. Good that
I found a correspondence on the phone with the support service of this wonderful S7 airline, where it was written that to
sportswear is allowed, and the address from which I received this letter is
S7 airline customer support address. Gloomy uncle looking at the answer
his airline, reluctantly gives the go-ahead to the passage of our luggage.
Do you think
this is all? NO.
We order
with friends tickets for 2019, I'm not a fool, I'm writing a support request,
Sportswear can be carried, or not? Well for next time
show this letter to the evil aunt at the registration. They answer that it is possible, we book
tickets. What am I thought of, right? Dick!!! This year at the registration
they say that they will not accept our sports bags for free, since we are flying without
skis and ski poles!!! That is, we have a shortage! They have written that
free skis, poles, sportswear, a helmet there, and since we don’t have skis,
pay!!! So who's thinking??? Who is the best money breeder in the world??? This -
S7 AIRLINE! Guys
creative! And they send us to a company representative who says that
now it’s like that, and what we didn’t understand is our problems! My letter about sports
doesn’t roll clothes, it’s about skiing
there is nothing! I write a claim, they register it and send me to go on my way
difficult, expensive difficult. Backpacks are not a suitcase, so we stuff the extra weight
on suitcases, thank God, space and weight allowed. For 1500 rubles we wrap two
bags with film and hand over as one piece of luggage.
But the most
savagery - this is the answer with a mockery of the airline S7 to my claim, which I received today! It turns out I
I could spend all this for free, but in fact I paid for the luggage myself, and since now
it is not possible to install its contents .... go the hard way
expensive difficult. LIKE THIS!!!
I often
flew with this airline, moreover, my friends flew with me, several times
once a year. Guess which airline I fly to ski with my friends
in 2020? Right!!! ANOTHER!!!
I don't
I say that every time I came across this, but this is already an extreme case ... ..
from now on without me.
Like
the theater begins with a hanger, your vacation begins with an air flight! If you want to,
so that your vacation begins with a good mood, and not with an unpleasant aftertaste on
to the soul of a person who has once again been bred, choose a different airline!!!

The Russian airline S7 Airlines (formerly Sibir), the largest in Russia in terms of the number of passengers transported on domestic flights, has become a full member of the Oneworld global aviation alliance since Monday. “Joining the alliance will strengthen our financial position by increasing the income from passengers of other members of the alliance who will use the routes of our network,” says the CEO of S7 Airlines. In addition, according to him, membership in Oneworld will allow the airline to reduce costs: S7 will have access to the alliance's common resources.

The Oneworld alliance includes airlines such as American Airlines, British Airways, Cathay Pacific Airways, Finnair, Iberia, Japan Airlines, LAN Airlines, Malev Hungarian Airlines, Mexicana, Qantas and Royal Jordanian, as well as about 20 affiliated airlines. Oneworld is the third of the existing global aviation alliances along with Star Alliance and SkyTeam.

S7 became the second Russian airline to join the international aviation alliance.

In 2006, Aeroflot, Russia's largest airline, became a member of the Sky Team alliance (Alitalia, CSA). They claim that the alliance's international route network has allowed the airline to attract new passengers. In 2006, she offered the Russian aviation alliance AiRUnion to join Star Alliance, but in 2008 AiRUnion went bankrupt.

S7 began to actively move towards international markets several years ago, when the company was still called Siberia. S7 was one of the first Russian airlines to switch from Russian to foreign technology, one of the first to introduce an electronic ticket instead of paper forms. About $5 million was spent on rebranding and renaming the company into S7, the purpose of these procedures was also an attempt to get rid of the image of a failed company. In 2004, as you know, suicide bombers blew up the Siberian aircraft - Tu-154. And the latest A310 crash in Irkutsk (in July 2006) happened at the very height of the rebranding campaign, which dealt an additional blow to the airline. Joining the Oneworld alliance imposes additional safety obligations on the S7.

However, it is difficult to blame the airline for the tragedy associated with the terrorist attack, says the head of the analytical department of AviaPort. And the difference between the provincial Novosibirsk airline Siberia, which flew five years ago, and the S7, which was seen a year and a half ago at the first meetings of British Airways, is obvious, he admits. Nevertheless,

the admission of S7 to the alliance is rather an advance, which in the future it will still have to justify,

experts say. Even before joining the Sky Team, Aeroflot had a serious international route network and easily integrated into the alliance. With S7, integration will be more difficult. Due to problems with obtaining commercial rights for international flights (flights between Russia and other countries are regulated by separate intergovernmental agreements), the S7 commercial network of international routes is not developed as Oneworld would like.

In addition to S7, two more Russian airlines, UTair and which have a well-developed route network, are of interest to international alliances. But the companies themselves are not yet talking about such plans. “There are examples of carriers that have entered into alliances, but this did not help them become successful. Therefore, our management is considering the option of joining the alliance from the angle of successful development in the future, ”the Transaero CEO is cautious. According to her, only if the airline sees that joining one of the global alliances will benefit the company, primarily passengers, Transaero will consider such a possibility. Now Transaero is developing bilateral cooperation with the world's leading carriers, increasing the number of agreements with them.