Inside Air Travel.Apr 2, 2007 OneWorld Expands its Membership Japan Airlines, Malev Hungarian Airlines and Royal Jordanian Royal Jordanian Airlines (Arabic: الملكية الأردنية; transliterated: al-Malakiyah al-Orduniyah) is an airline based in Amman, Jordan, operating scheduled international services over four Airlines will start offering OneWorld services and benefits from 1 April 2007 in the biggest expansion of the global airline alliance since its launch eight years ago. Five other members of the JAL JAL Jalisco (Mexican state) JAL Jalapa (Guatemala territorial division) JAL Jump And Link JAL Japan Airlines Company, Ltd. Group will also join as affiliates a[euro]" JALways, Japan Asia Airways Japan Asia Airways, Co., Ltd. (日本アジア航空株式会社 , JAL Express, J-AIR and Japan Transocean Air Japan Transocean Air Co., Ltd. (日本トランスオーシャン航空株式会社 . OneWorld managing partner John McCulloch John McCulloch (November 15, 1806 - May 15, 1879) was a Whig member of the U.S. House of Representatives from Pennsylvania. John McCulloch was born in McCullochs Mills, Pennsylvania. said: "Adding Japan Airlines, Malev and Royal Jordanian represents oneworld's biggest expansion since the alliance was launched eight years ago today (1 February 1999). We are very much looking forward to welcoming them and their customers on board from 1 April. Their addition will broaden our network coverage in three of the fastest growing regions for air travel and further strengthen oneworld's position as the world's leading quality airline alliance." OneWorld says that work is well in advance linking up the IT systems of the new recruits to those of the established members, and to bring their various internal processes and procedures into line with the alliance's requirements, to enable them to offer the alliance's services and benefits from 1 April. Of the 24 interline in·ter·line 1 tr.v. in·ter·lined, in·ter·lin·ing, in·ter·lines To insert between printed or written lines. in e-ticketing (IET IET Institution of Engineering and Technology (merged name of IEE and IIE) IET Initial Entry Training IET Image Enhancement Technology IET Institute of Environmental Technology (Houston, TX) ) links required to enable passengers to transfer between their flights using just electronic tickets, without the need for a traditional paper ticket, only three remain to be cut over. MalA[c]v already offers IET with all the other OneWorld members. The three outstanding IET connections will be completed in the coming weeks. JAL, MalA[c]v and Royal Jordanian have already joined the alliance's Global Explorer round-the-world fare product, which included some other carriers which are not part of the alliance. They will have the alliance's full range of alliance fares and sales products extended to them on 1 April. Feb 2, 2007 Editorial eMail: edit@AirGuideOnline.com For Air Transport & Travel Business Experts contact eMail: bizintel@AirGuideOnline.com For more global news, reviews, features and analysis, please subscribe to our Newsletters: http://www.airguideonline.com/order_formsubs.htm#news To Advertise: advert@AirGuideOnline.com Copyright [c] 2007 Air Travel Media / Pyramid Media Group. All rights reserved. Apr 2, 2007 |
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