New Delhi: Qatar Airways has approached Air India to join Oneworld alliance, a rival of the Star Alliance, assuring it of support for the membership. The offer is a sign of the swiftly mounting interest in the Indian civil aviation sector from international airlines.
While Star Alliance is the world’s largest airline alliance with 28 members in its fold which includes Lufthansa, Air Canada, Singapore Airlines and Thai Airways, Oneworld is a smaller group with 12 active members, including American Airlines, British Airways, Finnair, Japan Airlines, and Qantas.
Each alliance offers its members access to a network made up of all member carriers. Passengers get the option of using frequent flier miles in buying seats of any member carrier. It also gives the airline joining the alliance, passenger feed to fill its domestic network. Qatar has become the first carrier from the Middle East to join a global alliance and the joining formalities will be complete by October-end.
Read news in full 12/09/13 Mihir Mishra/Financial Express
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