Airline alliance

An airline alliance is an aviation industry arrangement between two or more airlines agreeing to cooperate on a substantial level. Alliances may provide marketing branding to facilitate travelers making inter-airline codeshare connections within countries. This branding may involve unified aircraft liveries of member aircraft.^[1]

In 2015, Star Alliance was the largest with 23% of total scheduled traffic in revenue passenger kilometres (RPKs)/revenue passenger miles (RPMs), followed by SkyTeam with 20.4% and Oneworld with 17.8%, leaving 38.8% for others.^[2] In 2019, by number of passengers, Star Alliance was leading 762 million,^[3] followed by SkyTeam (630 million)^[4] and Oneworld (535 million).^[5]

^ Fernandez de la Torre, Pablo E. (1999). "Airline alliances : the airline perspective". DSpace@MIT. hdl:1721.1/68159. Retrieved April 15, 2014.
^ "Scheduled Passengers Carried". World Air Transport Statistics 60th Edition. IATA. Archived from the original on July 6, 2016. Retrieved July 11, 2016.
^ "backgrounder". Star Alliance. October 18, 2019. Archived from the original on December 22, 2019.
^ "Fact Sheet" (PDF). SkyTeam. 2019. Archived (PDF) from the original on August 29, 2019.
^ "20 years, 20 facts, oneworld". OneWorld. February 1, 2019. Archived from the original on November 30, 2019. Retrieved December 22, 2019.

[1] Fernandez de la Torre, Pablo E. (1999). "Airline alliances : the airline perspective". DSpace@MIT. hdl:1721.1/68159. Retrieved April 15, 2014.

[WATS2016-2] "Scheduled Passengers Carried". World Air Transport Statistics 60th Edition. IATA. Archived from the original on July 6, 2016. Retrieved July 11, 2016.

[3] "backgrounder". Star Alliance. October 18, 2019. Archived from the original on December 22, 2019.

[4] "Fact Sheet" (PDF). SkyTeam. 2019. Archived (PDF) from the original on August 29, 2019.

[5] "20 years, 20 facts, oneworld". OneWorld. February 1, 2019. Archived from the original on November 30, 2019. Retrieved December 22, 2019.

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