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Air Berlin is now part of oneworld
Tuesday, 20 March 2012: airberlin today became part of oneworld®, adding the second largest airline in Germany and the sixth largest in Europe to the world’s premier global airline alliance.
NIKI, the Austrian member of the airberlin group, joined oneworld as an affiliate member at the same time – as the clocks struck midnight in Berlin this morning.
Both airlines are from today offering oneworld’s services and benefits – and substantially expanding the alliance’s network in Germany, Austria and throughout Central and South Europe.
Joining oneworld will strengthen airberlin’s competitiveness, enabling it to offer customers an unrivalled alliance global network served by partners including some of the best and biggest airlines in the world.
About airberlin
Since its launch in 1978, airberlin has grown into Germany’s second largest airline – and the sixth biggest in Europe in terms of passengers boarded – after taking over dba and LTU and gaining stakes in Austria’s NIKI and in Switzerland’s Belair.
It serves 162 destinations in 40 countries, carrying more than 35 million passengers in 2011. Its fleet comprises 170 aircraft with an average age of five years, making it one of the most modern and fuel efficient fleets in Europe, contributing towards a long-term reduction in emissions. The group has a workforce of 9,200 employees.
It has developed from its origins in the shorthaul leisure market to cater also for business travellers with its Euro Shuttle service providing high frequency connections between many of the continent’s key destinations and now also flies longhaul. It offers the full-range of services associated with a full-service network carrier, including its frequent flyer programme topbonus, and, for Business Class passengers and top tier cardholders, lounges, priority check-in and, for all passengers, free drinks and meals or snacks on every departure.
On its shorthaul services, it offers a single-class cabin. On its longhaul routes, it offers two-classes,
with a premium business cabin and individual in-flight entertainment screens for each passenger.
airberlin’s hubs are Berlin-Tegel, Dusseldorf, Palma de Majorca and Vienna. Among its international
destinations, it serves oneworld hubs Helsinki, Los Angeles, Madrid, Miami, Moscow Domodedovo and New York (JFK).
About oneworld
oneworld aims to be the airline alliance of choice for the world’s frequent international travellers. It brings together some of the best and biggest names in the airline business – airberlin (from midnight tonight), American Airlines, British Airways, Cathay Pacific, Finnair, Iberia, Japan Airlines, LAN, Qantas, Royal
Jordanian and S7 Airlines, and around 20 affiliates including Austria’s NIKI, American Eagle, Dragonair, LAN Argentina, LAN Ecuador and LAN Peru. Malaysia Airlines is on track to join later in 2012, with India’s Kingfisher Airlines also a member elect. Málev Hungarian Airlines and Mexicana are inactive members of the alliance.
Between them, oneworld’s active member airlines:
• Serve some 800 airports in 150 countries, with more than 8,750 daily departures.
• Offer more than 550 airport lounges for premium customers.
• Carry almost a million passengers a day on a combined fleet of nearly 2,500 aircraft.
• Generate some US$ 100 billion annual revenues in total.
oneworld enables its members to offer their customers more services and benefits than any airline can provide on its own. These include a broader route network, opportunities to earn and redeem frequent flyer miles and points across the combined oneworld network and more airport lounges. oneworld also offers more alliance fares than any of its competitors.
oneworld is current holder of more international awards for airline alliances than any of its competitors named the Best Airline Alliance by Global Traveler in its GT Tested Reader Survey 2011 Awards for the second year running, the World’s Leading Airline Alliance in the 2011 World Travel Awards, for the ninth consecutive year, and the Best Airline Alliance 2011 in Australian Business Traveller’s debut awards.
http://www.airberlin.com/site/pressreleases_dr.php?LANG=eng&ID=4305
http://es.oneworld.com/
Air Berlin is now part of oneworld
Tuesday, 20 March 2012: airberlin today became part of oneworld®, adding the second largest airline in Germany and the sixth largest in Europe to the world’s premier global airline alliance.
NIKI, the Austrian member of the airberlin group, joined oneworld as an affiliate member at the same time – as the clocks struck midnight in Berlin this morning.
Both airlines are from today offering oneworld’s services and benefits – and substantially expanding the alliance’s network in Germany, Austria and throughout Central and South Europe.
Joining oneworld will strengthen airberlin’s competitiveness, enabling it to offer customers an unrivalled alliance global network served by partners including some of the best and biggest airlines in the world.
About airberlin
Since its launch in 1978, airberlin has grown into Germany’s second largest airline – and the sixth biggest in Europe in terms of passengers boarded – after taking over dba and LTU and gaining stakes in Austria’s NIKI and in Switzerland’s Belair.
It serves 162 destinations in 40 countries, carrying more than 35 million passengers in 2011. Its fleet comprises 170 aircraft with an average age of five years, making it one of the most modern and fuel efficient fleets in Europe, contributing towards a long-term reduction in emissions. The group has a workforce of 9,200 employees.
It has developed from its origins in the shorthaul leisure market to cater also for business travellers with its Euro Shuttle service providing high frequency connections between many of the continent’s key destinations and now also flies longhaul. It offers the full-range of services associated with a full-service network carrier, including its frequent flyer programme topbonus, and, for Business Class passengers and top tier cardholders, lounges, priority check-in and, for all passengers, free drinks and meals or snacks on every departure.
On its shorthaul services, it offers a single-class cabin. On its longhaul routes, it offers two-classes,
with a premium business cabin and individual in-flight entertainment screens for each passenger.
airberlin’s hubs are Berlin-Tegel, Dusseldorf, Palma de Majorca and Vienna. Among its international
destinations, it serves oneworld hubs Helsinki, Los Angeles, Madrid, Miami, Moscow Domodedovo and New York (JFK).
About oneworld
oneworld aims to be the airline alliance of choice for the world’s frequent international travellers. It brings together some of the best and biggest names in the airline business – airberlin (from midnight tonight), American Airlines, British Airways, Cathay Pacific, Finnair, Iberia, Japan Airlines, LAN, Qantas, Royal
Jordanian and S7 Airlines, and around 20 affiliates including Austria’s NIKI, American Eagle, Dragonair, LAN Argentina, LAN Ecuador and LAN Peru. Malaysia Airlines is on track to join later in 2012, with India’s Kingfisher Airlines also a member elect. Málev Hungarian Airlines and Mexicana are inactive members of the alliance.
Between them, oneworld’s active member airlines:
• Serve some 800 airports in 150 countries, with more than 8,750 daily departures.
• Offer more than 550 airport lounges for premium customers.
• Carry almost a million passengers a day on a combined fleet of nearly 2,500 aircraft.
• Generate some US$ 100 billion annual revenues in total.
oneworld enables its members to offer their customers more services and benefits than any airline can provide on its own. These include a broader route network, opportunities to earn and redeem frequent flyer miles and points across the combined oneworld network and more airport lounges. oneworld also offers more alliance fares than any of its competitors.
oneworld is current holder of more international awards for airline alliances than any of its competitors named the Best Airline Alliance by Global Traveler in its GT Tested Reader Survey 2011 Awards for the second year running, the World’s Leading Airline Alliance in the 2011 World Travel Awards, for the ninth consecutive year, and the Best Airline Alliance 2011 in Australian Business Traveller’s debut awards.
http://www.airberlin.com/site/pressreleases_dr.php?LANG=eng&ID=4305
http://es.oneworld.com/
