alliances

With the launch of the route to Seattle by Alaska Airlines on Friday 22 May, the oneworld airline alliance is further strengthening its presence at London Heathrow Airport, giving the latter absolute control over Europe's largest hub. Heathrow now welcomes 14 member airlines of the oneworld alliance. During this summer season of 2026,...

Star Alliance is sending a message to the Chinese market, and in particular to business travellers. A few days ago, the alliance opened its new business lounge at Guangzhou Baiyun. Located in Terminal 3, it confirms Guangzhou's special status in Star Alliance's Asian strategy: it is already there (in Terminal...

For Hawaiian Airlines, 2026 will mean an ambitious $600 million investment plan, designed to fundamentally transform the travel experience for its passengers. A plan approved by its parent company, Alaska Airlines. The announcement was made by Diana Birkett Rakow, the airline's Managing Director, in the presence of the Governor of...

Among the world's airlines, Fiji Airways is still an unknown quantity. Nevertheless, since 1 April it has been making its contribution to the oneworld edifice. The national airline of Fiji and the South Pacific, Fiji Airways has joined oneworld, offering its passengers all the benefits of the alliance. Together with Air New Zealand, the...

The Austrian Federal Railways (ÖBB) have just signed a cooperation agreement with Star Alliance for an innovative intermodal partnership that will simplify passenger mobility in Austria. The agreement enables the 25 Star Alliance member airlines to offer pre- and post-train services in Austria. Passengers will also be able to...

No sooner had the Lufthansa Group's acquisition of a stake in ITA Airways been confirmed than the management teams of Lufthansa and ITA revealed the timetable for the next few weeks leading up to the integration of the Italian carrier. The first immediate measure is the equivalence granted to the frequent flyer programmes: the 36 million Miles & More members...

Star Alliance is sending a strong message to its business customers. On 21 November, the airline alliance inaugurated its very first lounge in the Asian market. Guangzhou airport in China can now boast Asia's first lounge in the Star Alliance colours. Luxury and voluptuousness...

Trenitalia is the second railway company to join the Skyteam alliance. Following on from Eurostar on 25 September, Italian railway company Trenitalia has now joined the global airline alliance created by Air France-KLM, Aeromexico, Delta Air Lines and Korean Air. As with Eurostar, the partnership has been set out in a memorandum...

Deutsche Bahn joined Star Alliance in 2022. The initiative remained unique until the announcement in September of an agreement between Eurostar and Skyteam. Eurostar will become SkyTeam's first non-airline partner in 2025. Customers will thus be able to travel, via a single reservation, on itineraries combining different...

This is often a headache for business travellers who are premium members of an airline frequent flyer programme. All it takes is for the airline to change alliance for the benefits within that alliance to disappear. This time, Star Alliance has decided to anticipate the disappearance of premium members of SAS Scandinavian's frequent flyer programme...

The Timatic AutoCheck system provides a streamlined, interactive experience that gives travellers, airlines and travel professionals easy access to accurate, clearly formulated immigration information. The system, developed by IATA, has just been adopted by Star Alliance. The system automatically checks documents. Timatic AutoCheck...

SAS Scandinavian Airlines this week announced a change in its commercial strategy following the arrival of new shareholders. In future, the shareholding will be made up of the Danish State and Air France-KLM in association with investors Castlelake and Lind Invest. By joining Air France-KLM, SAS is naturally leaving Star Alliance to join SkyTeam. The...

Affected by the Covid crisis like all airlines in the world, the national carrier Oman Air is nevertheless finding it more difficult than others in the region to return to a healthy financial structure. The company continues to accumulate losses, even if they are decreasing from one year to the next. In 2022, Oman Air had already reduced its...

The oneworld alliance has clearly marked its 25th anniversary as a key milestone in its development. Or at the very least, an ideal opportunity to make its presence felt at major international airports. And incidentally in the hubs of competitor Skyteam. One month to the day after opening the doors of the first lounge to be entirely designed in...

While the airline alliances are most often known for integrating new member airlines or opening airport lounges, they are not forgetting the MICE clientele. Several years ago, SkyTeam set up a dedicated programme, Global Meetings, aimed at facilitating the organisation of events. This portal, which, like...

As oneworld celebrates its 25th anniversary this year, the alliance has just given itself a new showcase at the Seoul hub. A brand new lounge has opened its doors in terminal 1 of Incheon international airport. The Korean capital is now served by seven member airlines of the alliance - American Airlines, Cathay Pacific,...

Frankfurt International Airport's future Terminal 3 will be open to competition, while Terminals 1 and 2 will be left to the Lufthansa group and its Star Alliance partners: this is the future of the German hub. Terminal 3 will open its doors in the summer of 2026, offering airlines additional capacity of 19...

This is the logical follow-up to the memorandum of understanding signed between the Air France-KLM group and Etihad in September 2023. This agreement, which focuses on joint services and the coordination of flights on the France-Abu Dhabi route, now includes the two airlines' frequent flyer programmes. Members of Flying Blue, Air France's frequent flyer programme, will...

Located in the non-Schengen zone, the new Star Alliance lounge at CDG 1 is a condensation of the best that "Paris and France can offer in terms of comfort and above all the art of living, from design to gastronomy", said Star Alliance CEO Theo Panagiotulias. The first passengers discovered the...

We have known since early June that a number of business travel operators were interested in Alltheway. In particular, the French start-up was offering its baggage delivery service in partnership with the Accor group, but Air France had already planned to integrate this option in the run-up to summer. The airline made the integration official at the end of July. And it lists eight...