Russian airline to join Oneworld
Russian domestic airline, S7 Airlines, is to join the Oneworld alliance.
The airline was unanimously elected on board by the grouping’s existing 10 member airlines.
S7 will become part of oneworld during 2010.
As a first step, its network will be added from June 1 to the Global Explorer round-the-world fare offered by all oneworld member airlines and selected carriers that are not part of the alliance.
British Airways will support S7 through its 18-month alliance implementation programme, as its oneworld sponsor.
S7 serves 72 destinations worldwide – 38 of them in Russia.
It will add 54 cities to the oneworld map – 35 of them in Russia.
It will bring eight countries onto the alliance’s network – Armenia, Azerbaijan, Kazakhstan, Kyrgyzstan, Moldova, Tajikistan, Turkmenistan and Uzbekistan.
S7’s main hub Moscow Domodedovo is served also by oneworld members American Airlines, British Airways, Iberia, Japan Airlines and Royal Jordanian. Its secondary hubs are Novosibirsk and Irkutsk.
By Bev Fearis
Bev
Editor in chief Bev Fearis has been a travel journalist for 25 years. She started her career at Travel Weekly, where she became deputy news editor, before joining Business Traveller as deputy editor and launching the magazine’s website. She has also written travel features, news and expert comment for the Guardian, Observer, Times, Telegraph, Boundless and other consumer titles and was named one of the top 50 UK travel journalists by the Press Gazette.
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