Oneworld Aviation Alliance
one world was founded in 1999 by five airlines, alliance has since grown to include Finnair and Iberia. A year later, she joined LAN, and in 2007 as part of alliance entered Japan Airlines and Royal Jordanian and in 2010 S7, two years later were joined Malaysia Airlines, and in 2013 Qatar Airways. US Airways and Sri Lankan Airlines joined in 2014. one world, is one of the three largest airline alliances global world with its control center based in New York. Alliance was expanded quite seriously in its history in 2007, when Japan Airlines, Malev and Royal Jordanian joined as full members, while cathay pacific, a subsidiary of Dragonair, five subsidiaries Japan Airlines and two subsidiaries LAN joined as associate members. In July 2011, one world and its members fly to 870 cities in 146 countries. The alliance operates more than 9,300 daily flights and carries 335 million passengers. united park alliance is 2,400 aircraft. Since the end of 2002 one world and airlines-members have developed common technical requirements for engineering and operational activities, cost reduction through bulk purchases and the exchange of spare parts. He was also the first aviation alliance who introduced interline through the network all airlines-members. one world was recognized as the best in the world aviation alliance in 2002, 2004 and 2005. Alliance has the highest rating airlines, with an average rating of 3.73, based on all airline alliances. According to this indicator, it is ahead of its competitors, such as and , with average ratings of 3.19 and 3.29, respectively. airline alliance provides airlines-participants, a number of benefits. These include codeshare agreements and cost reductions in terms of operations, maintenance, investments and purchases. Benefits that may be available to tourists, such as increased departure time options, availability of flights with more seats, reduced travel times and various Special offers.

Airlines included in Oneworld:

airberlin Since its inception in 1978, it has rapidly grown into Germany's second largest airline. Airberlin serves over 130 cities in 30 countries around the world. She joined the Oneworld alliance in 2012. The airline's "hubs" are.	LAN One of the largest and most awarded airlines in Latin America, LAN Airlines serves over 90 cities throughout South America, North America, Europe and the Pacific, with bases in Chile, Argentina, Ecuador and Peru.	Japan Airlines Founded in 1951, Japan Airlines is considered one of the world's major carriers and joined the oneworld alliance in 2007. The airline has major transport hubs in, and operates flights to approximately 75 cities located in 20 countries.
Iberia Considered part of the alliance since 1999, the Spanish Iberia serves about 110 cities in 40 countries. It is considered the main air carrier in the South Atlantic.	Finnair Finland's flag carrier, Finnair is based in and flies to more than 60 cities in 30 countries around the world, including an increasing number of international long-haul flights to and from Asia.	cathay pacific One of Asia's most awarded airlines and a founding member of Oneworld, Cathay Pacific flies to almost 100 cities in 30 countries worldwide.
british airways British Airways is considered one of the world's major airlines and one of the founding members of Oneworld. The airline flies to 200 cities in 90 countries and is based in.	american airlines American Airlines is considered one of the founding members of the alliance. The airline and its subsidiaries are based in Dallas, New York and fly to 330 cities in 50 countries around the world.	SriLankan Airlines SriLankan Airlines joined the alliance in May 2014. It is not just the flag carrier of Sri Lanka, but also the largest international airline serving the Maldives and with a significant presence in South India.
S7 Airlines As Russia's largest domestic carrier, S7 Airlines flies to 100 cities in 30 countries across the Middle East, Europe and Asia.	Royal Jordanian Royal Jordanian is considered the state carrier of the Kingdom of Jordan. It flies to 60 cities in nearly 40 countries across Europe, the Middle East, Asia, Africa and North America.	Qatar Airways Qatar Airways, the flag carrier of the country of Qatar, joined the alliance in 2013. Rated five star by skytrax, the airline operates a modern fleet of over 125 aircraft flying to 130 key and charter destinations worldwide.
Qantas Qantas is one of the founders of Oneworld, an Australian airline considered one of the world's major airlines, flying to 80 cities across Asia, North America, the Pacific, Europe, and Africa.	Malaysia Airlines Malaysia Airlines, which joined the alliance in February 2013, is considered one of six airlines worldwide with a 5-star rating by Skytrax's independent quality assurance agency, and is also the airline's award-winning airline for the world's best teams.	THERE TAM joined the alliance in March 2014 and is considered the main carrier in Brazil - the main economy of Latin America and the largest air carrier. TAM flies to 61 destinations in 16 countries in Latin America, the USA and Europe, with a fleet of 172 aircraft, making 800 flights daily. She carried over 41 million passengers in 2015.

Airline alliances create a global network that can be used airlines as well as air passengers. Via Oneworld Alliance, airlines can reach a large number of destinations and expand their services to passengers around the world.

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 more than 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 reputable 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 in isolation. 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 alliance 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 affection 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!!! What is it like? Ask to take us off the flight, take out our luggage??? What is it like??? BUT
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
it's 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 is -
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? Correctly!!! ANOTHER!!!
I do not
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!!!

Aviation alliances are one of the main concepts that any tourist should know. I will try to briefly explain why this knowledge will help save on flights.

Three global aviation alliances

There are currently three global airline alliances in the world: SkyTeam (SkyTeam), Star Alliance (Star Alliance), Oneworld (Van World).

Airlines unite into alliances in order to reduce air travel costs, optimize business processes and increase passenger traffic. But to us ordinary passengers, all this is not entirely interesting.

Airlines within the alliance unify the following elements:

– booking system

— bonus programs for passengers

- introduce codeshare flights

- coordinate flight schedules.

To put it simply, when organizing connecting flights, it is easier, cheaper and more convenient to fly aircraft of one aviation alliance. When organizing my travels in Asia, the USA, Europe and other destinations, I always use flights only within the framework of one aviation alliance, thanks to which I have already saved a lot of money.

Let's take a closer look at all the alliances.

SkyTeam Airlines Alliance (SkyTeam)

It is the second largest aviation alliance in the world. I can say for sure that Russians and especially residents of the Far East most often use his services. After all, the alliance includes Aeroflot - Russian Airlines (Aeroflot - Russian Airlines) and KoreanAir (Korean Air), widely represented in Vladivostok.

In addition to them, the alliance includes the following airlines:

Europe:

Air Europa (AirEurope)

Air France (Air France)

Alitalia (Alitalia)

CSA - Czech Airlines (ČSA - Czech Airlines)

Asia:

China Eastern Airlines (China Eastern Airlines)

China Southern Airlines (Chinese Southern Airlines)

Garuda Indonesia Airways (GarudaIndonesia)

Vietnam Airlines (Vietnam Airlines)

Xiamen Airlines (Xiamen Airlines)

America:

Aerolineas Argentinas (Argentine Airlines)

Aeromexico (Aeromexica)

Delta Air Lines (DeltaEyrLines)

Africa and Middle East:

Kenya Airways (KenyaAirways)

Saudi Arabian Airlines (Saudi Arabian Airlines)

Tarom (Tarom)

I think that SkyTeam (SkyTeam) is especially well suited for Russian passengers when organizing flights within Europe.

Oneworld Airlines Alliance (Van Werld)

So far it is the smallest aviation alliance, but it is rapidly gaining momentum. I have already flown with the alliance aircraft several times, and I especially want to note the advantageous offers that its customers can take advantage of.

In Russia, S7 Airlines, also actively represented in Vladivostok, has recently become a member of the alliance.

Other members of the alliance:

Europe:

Air Berlin (AirBerlin)

British Airways (British Airways)

Iberia (Iberia)

Finnair (Finnair)

Asia:

Cathay Pacific

JapanAirlines - JAL (Japan Airlines - JAL)

Malaysia Airlines (Malaysia Airlines)

SriLankanAirlines (Sri Lanka Airlines)

America:

American Airlines (American Airlines)

LANAirlines (LAN Airlines)

Mexicana (Mexican)

TAMLinhasAereas (TAM Airlines)

USAirways (US Airways)

Australia and Middle East:

Qantas (Kvontas)

Qatar Airways (Qatar Airways)

RoyalJordanianAirlines (Royal Jordanian Airlines)

In my opinion, Oneworld is very well suited for flights within Asia and the US.

Alliance of airlines Star Alliance (Star Alliance)

This is the oldest and largest aviation alliance in the world, but I put it in last place in my review. This is due to the fact that so far not a single Russian airline is participating in this alliance.

Alliance members:

Europe:

Adria Airways (Adria Airways)

Aegean Airlines (Aegean Airlines)

Austrian Airlines (Austrian Airlines)

Brussels Airlines (Brussels Airlines)

CroatiaAirlines (Croatia Airlines)

LOTPolishAirlines (LOT Polish Airlines)

Lufthansa (Lufthansa)

SAS - ScandinavianAirlines (SAS - Scandinavian Airlines)

Spanair (Spanair)

Swiss International Air Lines (SwissInterneshnlEyrlaynz)

TAP Portugal

Turkish Airlines (Turkish Airlines)

Asia:

Air China (AirChina)

Thai Airways (Thai Airways)

Singapore Airlines (Singapore Airlines)

All Nippon Airways (All Nippon Airways)

Asiana Airlines (AsianaAirlines)

Eva Air (EvaAir)

America:

AirCanada (Air Canada)

United Airlines (United Airlines)

Australia, New Zealand, Africa:

Air New Zealand (Air New Zealand)

Egyptair (Egyptair)

Ethiopian Airlines (Ethiopian Airlines)

South African Airways (South African Airways)

Alliance coverage allows you to plan flights with it to almost any part of the world.

The most important thing