US Airways Joins Merger Partner American Airlines In Trans-Atlantic Joint Business With British Airw

[700UW]

http://finance.yahoo.com/news/us-airways-joins-merger-partner-140000407.html

 

[john john]

Not sure what this involves
Dedicated support teams for customers connecting at nine of the airlines' hubs: Charlotte, Chicago, Dallas/Fort Worth, London Heathrow, Los Angeles, Madrid, Miami, New York's JFK and Philadelphia

 

[700UW]

American Chief Executive Douglas Parker, the former CEO of US Airways, told an aviation summit in Washington on Thursday that the addition of US Air gives the American-British Airways alliance "twice the scale" of a similar venture that Delta Air Lines began with Britain's Virgin Atlantic Airways earlier this year that operates more than 30 flights
"We're well ahead of them already," Willie Walsh, CEO of British Air parent International Airlines Group, said on the sidelines of the conference.
 

 

[nycbusdriver]

So....is US Airways part of oneworld, or not?  If so, why the hoopla over marketing agreements with only a few of the oneworld members?
 
And Finnair's comment was amusing about how "seamless" things are now.  US doesn't serve Helsinki, and Finnair doesn't serve PHL or CLT.. So where exactly is that seamless improvement?

 

[737823]

Not sure what this involves
Dedicated support teams for customers connecting at nine of the airlines' hubs: Charlotte, Chicago, Dallas/Fort Worth, London Heathrow, Los Angeles, Madrid, Miami, New York's JFK and Philadelphia

They have special (contracted) personnel that provides connecting flight information, boarding passes, and fast track security passes to passengers with tight connections. For AA agents at hubs (MIA I'm speaking of) they have BA and IB personnel at the transfer desk to assist on itineraries with partners.

Josh

 

[737823]

So....is US Airways part of oneworld, or not?  If so, why the hoopla over marketing agreements with only a few of the oneworld members?
 
And Finnair's comment was amusing about how "seamless" things are now.  US doesn't serve Helsinki, and Finnair doesn't serve PHL or CLT.. So where exactly is that seamless improvement?

Other gateways US serves in Europe at Finnair also serves. Just because they don't directly serve US hubs on their own metal doesn't mean they can't be part of the JV.

Josh

 

[john john]

They have special (contracted) personnel that provides connecting flight information, boarding passes, and fast track security passes to passengers with tight connections. For AA agents at hubs (MIA I'm speaking of) they have BA and IB personnel at the transfer desk to assist on itineraries with partners.

Josh

USAirwasys has special US agents at the hubs
(non-contracted) personnel that provide connecting flight information, boarding passes among other customer service duties. Noting new here that isn’t already being perform by US Agents

 

[nycbusdriver]

Other gateways US serves in Europe at Finnair also serves. Just because they don't directly serve US hubs on their own metal doesn't mean they can't be part of the JV.

Josh

 
Obviously you are unfamiliar with the concept of a hub-and-spoke system.

 

[USFlyer]

The JV is more than oneworld.  In the JV, the airlines coordinate schedules and share revenue on the JV-operated flights.

 

[jimntx]

And, they do it with the anti-trust blessing of the U.S. Justice Department. This is a major boon to coordinating schedules and ticket prices, etc.--especially in relation to flights from the states to LHR. It's more than a codeshare.

 

[AdAstraPerAspera]

So....is US Airways part of oneworld, or not?  If so, why the hoopla over marketing agreements with only a few of the oneworld members?
 
And Finnair's comment was amusing about how "seamless" things are now.  US doesn't serve Helsinki, and Finnair doesn't serve PHL or CLT.. So where exactly is that seamless improvement?

 
A JV isn't just a mere "marketing agreement"... like someone stated, it is full revenue splits between, for example, transatlantic ops, plus so much more. The amount of coordination is astounding!
 
I was fortunate enough to have been given a tour of the oneworld HQ on Park Avenue (all new-hire NYC-based flight attendants at AA are given this opportunity, along with a catered lunch during our base indoc ) and it is truly fascinating to see the open-layout floorplan for all the airlines who participate in the JV. However, oneworld members without JV agreements are walled off with glass partitions from the rest of the desks, literally for legal reasons.

 

[AdAstraPerAspera]

We got a personal tour of the oneworld Global Support Center at JFK, also... and they also have them at HKG, LHR, DFW, LAX, and other oneworld hubs I believe as well.
 

 
oneworld Global Support Center JFK

 

[nycbusdriver]

 
A JV isn't just a mere "marketing agreement"... like someone stated, it is full revenue splits between, for example, transatlantic ops, plus so much more. The amount of coordination is astounding!
 
I was fortunate enough to have been given a tour of the oneworld HQ on Park Avenue (all new-hire NYC-based flight attendants at AA are given this opportunity, along with a catered lunch during our base indoc ) and it is truly fascinating to see the open-layout floorplan for all the airlines who participate in the JV. However, oneworld members without JV agreements are walled off with glass partitions from the rest of the desks, literally for legal reasons.

 
Park Ave in NY?  I wonder if I fire up my Metrocard and bring my ID over, they would let me in?  Ot arrest me?

 

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[AdAstraPerAspera]

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#3 and #5 get my vote. (marked with a ^)
 

 
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