Alliance

An alliance is a group of airlines that work together to help each other expand their network.

## Creating/Joining an Alliance

You can join existing alliances, or just create your own.

### Creating

1. Go to menu slider, and find alliances (4th from the bottom).
2. Click on the gear, then type in the name of the alliance. Then press the checkmark next to/under the text. **You can not change this once confirmed!**
3. Wait for people to request to join, or advertise your alliance in the chat, Discord, or the forums.
4. To accept new members, click the checkmark next to the applicant text. If you don't want to, you can press the X button to reject them. Before you accept them (press the cancel on the confirmation screen), you can look at the info of the airline in question.

### Joining

1. Look for the alliance you want to join. The alliance can't have the following: 12 members (not counting applicants), no one has any bases where anyone else has a base, and no one's HQ is where someone else has an HQ. However, 1 base and 1 HQ in the same airport is intentionally allowed and used as a strategy by many top aliances.
2. Wait for them to accept (or reject) you.
3. You're in! (or not, then just repeat the steps with a different one.) Note that some (especially higher-ranked) alliances recuit exclusively on discord, and they will only accept you if a leader/co-leader on discord gives you the all clear to apply.

## Benefits

* Passengers are more likely to take flights with other alliance members (via code shares), in the form of transfer passengers
* Reputation boost, minimum of 5, up to 50 (only applies to alliances with three or more members)
* Private chat for alliance members (for either planning or talking)
* Map showing all alliance routes (like the rival map).

## Alliance Ranking

Based on the number of champion points you alliance has, your alliance will be ranked (where the more points you have, the better). The higher up in the leaderboard you are, the more reputation you will gain (from the alliance), up to 50 extra points. Like mentioned above, these benefits only apply to "registered" alliances (alliances with 3+ members).

## Alliance Descriptions/Details

### Oneworld

Oneworld has been the #1 alliance since the early days of v2, with CSA Czech Airlines as its leader, creating the alliance in week 1 of the game. It's current co-leaders consist of ForeverAir, WestPac Airlines, and American Airlines. Oneworld has what are known as the "big 3", which are CSA Czech Airlines, Sky Chariot, and American Airlines. Oneworld is known for their "Oneworld Prices", coming from their notoriously high prices on their routes because of their great network. Oneworld dominates most major airports in high-income countries, with their pax numbers being even double of their closest competitor. They are also famous for having massive planes like the A380 or A350-1000 on lots of routes, and consistently dominating the top20 routes charts as well as the top20 lounges chart.

### Societe du Bumbum

Bumbum was named one of the founding members, Meow's obsession with the word Bumbum. Originally, the alliance was Paw Pals, but after Vulkan Airlines/Cosmic Airways left, the alliance was reorganized with new members into Onyewowwd, an owo play on the Oneworld name. Later, due to PR concerns, the name was changed to Societe du Bumbum. Bumbum is one of the most hated alliances due to price wars with other alliances. Pizza Air, the largest airline in game by rep, is in Societe de Bumbum, among other world-class airlines including JGT Airlines and Chicken Express. It is also the second biggest alliance in game, still 1000 points behind Oneworld but a solid 500 points ahead of the third place, Sky Team.

### Sky Team

Sky Team is most famous for it's leader, AFKLM, among others, including To the Sky Airlines (which is rumored to be his brother, but never confirmed), as well as Odessair and Biliam (who was one of the few airlines that really got ahead after joining mid-game, since he was the discoverer of the sheer amount of 1.5 rep airports in the US). AFKLM is extremely impressive and is at "oneworld-level"; however, it is conflicting HQ with Air Italy which Oneworld is probably keeping as PR since he has a good relationship with dev (and is the maintainer of the AC Discord Verification Bot), as well as possible emotional connetions with other members.

### Latin Team

Latin Team rised due to the top alliances not giving much focus on the low-income countries, and in particular, the latin american countries as well as Africa. In the early days, Oneworld and Paw Pals (obviously, oneworld won in the end) were fighting for the premium pax in the high income countries, neglecting other low income countries that had high rep. Latin Team also holds the most impressive player, AAA (Africair/Azul/Atlantica), not to be confused with the TripleA alliance, and at its peak, was also the only single player to have 3 airlines in the top20 section by rep. Africair was also one of the two airlines (the other being Pizza Air) to ever beat CSA in rep since the very early stages of the game. Unfourtunately, due to inactivity, AAA went bankrupt/rebuilt, and after that, it has never risen to the same level as before.

### Unisky

Unisky is the developer's alliance and both of his accounts are in it. Following a period of inactivity, his main acount Air Chocobo went bankrupt, who was the only leader of the alliance, and as a result, disbanded. Unisky is currently reforming so make sure to reach out to dev on discord if you're interested! (updated 9/17/22)

### Golden Sun

Golden Sun is known for Fly or Die, who can be referred to the "AC Mechanics Guy". He knows just about every detail about AC game mechanics He is famous for his dedication to educating new players, and helping them succeed, even writing a public guide on the AC Wiki Fly or die's Guide. Golden Sun also has the most calculators and has the best understanding of AC's mechanics compared to any other alliance likely because of Fly or Die.

## Trivia

* In V1, high-ranking alliances also increase your max flight frequency (but that was removed, due to there being no need for strict frequency limits).
	+ Reputation boosts were also smaller, from 2 to 20 (considering how championing a small country gave you 1 point at most, this is very small).
* If you were an alliance applicant, you could see and use the alliance chat (and thus, plans/conversations). That has been removed in the new version.
* There were two users, Flying For Fun and SPA, who created quite a few airlines (SPA had at least 15 different airlines, FFF had 12) and placed them over one alliance. Nowadays, creating that many accounts is frowned upon.