page_title: Oneworld
section_title: New global alliance
hierarchical_section_title: Oneworld / Membership history / New global alliance
caption_attribution_description: English: Cathay 403 from Taipei, having just been repainted in Oneworld livery in a few days.
context_page_description: Oneworld is an airline alliance founded on February 1, 1999. The alliance's stated objective is to be the first choice airline alliance for the world's frequent international travelers. Its central alliance office is in New York, New York, United States. Its member airlines are American Airlines, British Airways, Cathay Pacific, Finnair, Iberia, Japan Airlines, Malaysia Airlines, Qantas, Qatar Airways, Royal Air Maroc, Royal Jordanian, S7 Airlines and SriLankan Airlines, as well as Fiji Airways as a connect partner and some 30 affiliated airlines. As of October 2017, Oneworld is the third-largest global alliance in terms of passengers with more than 527.9 million passengers carried, behind SkyTeam and Star Alliance.
  As of October 2017, its member airlines collectively operate a fleet of 3,447 aircraft, serve about 1,000 airports in more than 158 countries, carrying 527.9 million passengers per year on 12,738 daily departures, generating annual revenues of more than US$130 billion.
context_section_description: Oneworld was unveiled by its founding members, American Airlines, British Airways, Canadian Airlines (which left the alliance a few years later on merging with Air Canada), Cathay Pacific, and Qantas at a press conference in London, United Kingdom, on 21 September 1998. Oneworld was officially launched and became operational on 1 February 1999.
  The alliance outlined its services and benefits as including:
  Smoother transfers for passengers traveling across all member airlines
  Greater support to passengers regardless of which member airline they are traveling with
  Greater range of round-the-world products
  Enhanced co‑operation in the member airlines' frequent-flyer programs to provide more rewards
  Wider recognition and access to more airport lounges.
  More codeshare agreements and connecting flights between member airlines
  Ahead of the official launch, the alliance embarked on an extensive employee communications and training programme, involving virtually all of the 220,000 staff employed by the five-member airlines, to ensure they could deliver what the alliance brand promised. At its launch in 1999, Oneworld's member airlines and their affiliates served 648 destinations in 139 countries and carried 181 million passengers with a fleet of 1,577 aircraft.
caption: Cathay Pacific is one of the alliance's founding members.
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