Malaysia Airlines to join oneworld

Malaysia Airlines is to join the oneworld alliance.

It is expected to start flying as part of oneworld late next year.

The airline was unanimously elected a oneworld member designate by the chief executives of the alliance’s member airlines at a meeting on the sidelines of IATA’s 2011 World Air Transport Summit, which opens in Singapore today.

Malaysia Airlines already code-shares with oneworld partners Cathay Pacific and Royal Jordanian.

By Bev Fearis