Kingfisher Airlines to join oneWorld alliance

BREAKING :

Kingfisher Airlines to join oneWorld, reports Airlineroute.net
The report is found at American Airlines website

QUOTE :

Tuesday, 23 February 2010:
India’s leading domestic carrier
and only five-star airline,
Kingfisher Airlines, is lining up to
join oneworld ® after signing a
memorandum of understanding
as its first step towards full
membership of the world’s
leading quality airline alliance,
subject to Indian regulatory
approval.
The agreement was concluded at
a meeting between Kingfisher
Airlines’ Chairman Vijay Mallya
and Chief Executives from
oneworld’s 11 existing member
airlines, which include some of
the best and biggest names in
the industry.
Kingfisher Airlines today applied
to India’s Ministry of Civil
Aviation for authority to proceed
with its membership of
oneworld.
A target date for Kingfisher
Airlines to join the alliance will be
confirmed once this approval is
gained. The process to bring any
airline on board normally takes
around 18 months to complete,
so Kingfisher Airlines could be
expected to start flying as part
of oneworld during 2011.
Kingfisher Airlines’ addition to
oneworld will link India’s most
extensive domestic network
with oneworld’s unrivalled global
network, as the only alliance
with airlines based on every
continent.
It will add 58 cities to the
oneworld map – all of them in
India. This will expand
oneworld’s network to 800
destinations in almost 150
countries, served by a combined
fleet of 2,350 aircraft operating
some 9,000 flights a day,
carrying some 340 million
passengers a year.
Established oneworld members
American Airlines, British
Airways, Cathay Pacific, Finnair,
Japan Airlines, Qantas and Royal
Jordanian already serve five
gateways in India between them
– Bangalore, Chennai, Delhi,
Hyderabad and Mumbai.
British Airways will support
Kingfisher Airlines through its
alliance implementation program,
as its oneworld sponsor.

Kingfisher is already a partner of oneWorld’s Global Explorer program.

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