Airline alliances
Airline alliances are formed when different airlines agree to substantially cooperate with each other. Advantages for customers include more destinations and more convenient connections, while the airlines benefit by feeding passengers to each other instead of to competitors.
UnderstandFor travelers, the most obvious effect of airline alliances is codesharing whereby one airline will sell a seat on a flight with its own flight number, but the flight is performed by a different airline.
OneworldOneworld is the smallest alliance counting by the number of airlines.
SkyTeamSkyTeam is the latest large-scale alliance to be formed. It has a particularly strong network in Europe.
Star AllianceStar Alliance is the world's largest airline alliance.
Vanilla AllianceVanilla Alliance (French: Alliance Vanille) was created to improve air connectivity within the Indian Ocean region.
Rail-air alliancesIn some countries (especially those with extensive high speed rail networks) there are also cooperation agreements between airlines and railway operators, offering trains as a code-shared "flight" or other benefits to…
Frequent flyer programsYou should choose your Frequent Flyer airline in an alliance carefully.
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