Japan To Join One World

MOUNT KISCO said:
Hurray for us.

Question: Do One World members give AA employees better discounts, those who aren't?
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You get ZED fares but OneWorlders are better about who can use them compared to non-OneWorlders. For example, Registered Companions are good to go on One World.
 
AMFAMAN said:
You get ZED fares but OneWorlders are better about who can use them compared to non-OneWorlders. For example, Registered Companions are good to go on One World.
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OW carriers also give priority on the standby list to employees at other OW carriers. Getting out of Easter Island on LAN a while back there were about 20 airline employees standing by for one seat, and being the only employee from another OW carrier, I got it.
 
NewHampshire Black Bears said:
Who are all the members of "One World" ??

I've forgotten.

Thanx !

NH/BB's
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AA, BA, CX, QF, LA, IB, EI, and Finnair. Malev and Royal Jordanian have been announced as future members, but JAL is head and shoulders above those two (and also much better than IB or EI).

http://www.oneworld.com/

Having JAL as an option on RTW trips is gonna be great. Their F is on a par with BA or CX, and their J is competitive with any other OW member.
 
Since I'm not in International, and don't know all the ins and outs of OneWorlding and codesharing, etc. If JAL joins One World, what might be the effect on AA flights to NRT? There is only a codeshare with AA right now for JAL on DFW-NRT, but JAL serves ORD, LAX, and SFO directly IIRC.
 
jimntx said:
Since I'm not in International, and don't know all the ins and outs of OneWorlding and codesharing, etc. If JAL joins One World, what might be the effect on AA flights to NRT? There is only a codeshare with AA right now for JAL on DFW-NRT, but JAL serves ORD, LAX, and SFO directly IIRC.
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No negative effect based on what I've seen with other partners. The demand for traffic is there on all those routes, but where the real benefit will be is with the beyond-NRT connections that JAL can offer to AA customers, and the beyond-LAX/ORD/DFW connections that AA can offer to JAL customers. Likewise for their interchanging with BA at LHR, QF in MEL and SYD, etc.
 
jimntx said:
Since I'm not in International, and don't know all the ins and outs of OneWorlding and codesharing, etc. If JAL joins One World, what might be the effect on AA flights to NRT? There is only a codeshare with AA right now for JAL on DFW-NRT, but JAL serves ORD, LAX, and SFO directly IIRC.
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AA also places its code on all of JAL's USA-NRT flights, IIRC. Not familar with the flights where JAL places their code on AA metal.
 
Why didn it take JAL so long to join an alliance? Joining ONEWORLD is just formalizing a series of code-shares already existing with several ONEWORLD airline individually. Cathay, Qantas & AA already have cose-shares with JAL. This give ONEWOLD two first rate airlines in Asia. JAL for many years was the biggest airline in Asia before Singapore, Thai and Cathay made it to the big time. JAl is the perfect last piece to the ONEWORLD family.
 
JFK777 said:
JAl is the perfect last piece to the ONEWORLD family.
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I wouldn't say perfect LAST piece. Do we have a member airline from the African continent? I know that SAA belongs to Star Alliance. I know that BA flies to just about everywhere in Africa, but having a member from Africa would be a nice addition--though I know there ain't that many choices who could meet OneWorld standards.
 
Quality airlines in Africa are more then I thought at first but few have the reach SAA does. Kenya Airways, Ethipian, Egypt Air & RAM are all airlines flying modern A340, 777 or soon to be 787. Ethiopian and Kenya Airways( 49% owned by KLM) are almost next to each other about half down the east coast of Africa flying modern aircraft to Europe, America and Asia. These two have small regional fleets and about 6 to 10 wide bodied aircraft. Egpyt Air & RAM are fly to America, Europe and Asia, serve North Africa well but are sparse in Sub-Saharan Africa.

The only airline in Africa to have links to all major cities on each continent with daily and double(sometimes triple daily) is SAA. They have the regional network in Southern Africa, the intercontinental network to Sao Paulo, Hong Kong, Sydney & Perth, New York, Washington, Atlanta(not much longer as deal with Delta is going bye-bye), LHR, FRA, CDG, ZRH and a few others. Hey they fly to LHR daily from Capetown, how many African airlines fly a daily intercontinental flight from an airport other then their pricipal hub? SAA only

SAA went to Star, I think ONEWORLD would have been better for them since they code share with Qantas & Cathay. SAA's relationship with Lufthansa to Germany is strong as well as their service to the UK. I wonder about some decisions SAA makes as a State-owned airline after the Coleman Andrews years, no more JFk nonstops I think is a really bad decision. Boeing's new 777-200LR would be really great for SAA, if Qantas can fly Syndey to LHR nonstop then SAA could do JNB to JFK nonstop both ways, that would really be something. A340-600 are nice airplanes but nonstop to JFK is even more impressive. SAA has an aircraft decision, They ordered Airbus aircraft in 2000(A320 & A340) but the 747-400's are getting old, all 8 are flying mostly to the UK with SAA only First Class service. I have geard the A380 mentioned but does an airline the size of SAA need another type?
 
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