Japan Airlines (JAL), Malév Hungarian Airlines and Royal Jordanian Airlines will start offering oneworld® services and benefits from April 1, 2007 in the biggest expansion of the world’s leading quality global airline alliance since its launch eight years ago today.
Five other members of the JAL Group will join oneworld alongside Japan Airlines on the same day, as affiliates -JALways, Japan Asia Airways, JAL Express, J-AIR and Japan Transocean Air.
So, from April 1, 2007 some 20 million frequent flyers from all of these airlines will be able to earn and redeem mileage awards on all other oneworld carriers. This includes the more than 19.5 million members of the JAL Mileage Bank (JMB) frequent flyer programme, 75,000 members from Malév’s Duna Club, and the 90,000 members of Royal Jordanian’s Royal Plus.
Top-tier (Emerald and Sapphire) members will also have access to the 400 airport lounges worldwide offered by the alliance’s airlines.
Eligible members of these three programmes will soon be sent new membership cards, bearing the oneworld logo, to ensure they receive their alliance benefits from 1 April.
From the same date, members of the established oneworld airlines’ frequent flyer programmes will be able to earn and redeem awards and receive all other oneworld benefits on these new recruits, whose networks will also be covered by oneworld’s extensive range of alliance fares and sales products.
Royal Jordanian Chief Executive Samer Majali said: “Membership of oneworld will create extensive opportunities for Royal Jordanian that will enable our airline to offer our customers greater and smoother access to a substantially more diverse network of destinations, with the help of our excellent stable of partners. Through RJ’s own wide-ranging regional network, we will provide the other oneworld airlines with markedly increased reach in the fast growing Middle East.”
