Quite a few airlines shuffled around since my last update. I also added a blurb to this frequently updated points with the benefits of airline alliances.
Benefits of Airline Alliances
Airlines alliances have been such a blessing in the travel world. It connects much of the world together to make travel more convenient. Some of the major advantages are as follows:
- Being able to earn and rewards miles/points with airline partners. Basically, regardless of which airline you fly with within the alliance, you can pick one frequently flyer program to bank all earnings to. Furthermore, you can redeem your miles/points towards reward flights on any of the member alliances. However, it is subject to availability and in some cases, limited reward flight options.
- Being able to book multiple airlines on one itinerary on a single ticket is an amazing benefit. Especially if you have check-bag, there should be seamless baggage transfers from airline to airline.
- Certain cost efficiencies are passed along to customers. Such as airline members can share operational facilities and negotiate in bulk volume. The cost savings would really only be passed along as long as there is competition between airline alliances.
- In some cases, there are cross benefits when you have elite status with one member airline, you can potentially benefit from some of the advantages with other member airlines.
As you can see, it is not a perfect system, but it does offer a lot of potential for collaboration between airlines which overall, I find, makes travel much more enjoyable.
Historical Datapoints
There are 3 major worldwide airline alliances, as well as 1 regional alliance (previously 3) that we will mention further down the post. Below is is a list of all the previous posts that we have written if you are curious what the alliances looked like back in the day:
- August 18, 2025
- February 3, 2024
- May 17, 2022
- April 21, 2021
- April 7, 2020
- May 13, 2019
- September 18, 2018
- September 10, 2017
- January 15, 2017
- September 18, 2016
- March 17, 2016
- August 2, 2015
- May 11, 2014
Blogging allows us to keep track of information from the past, as generally most company websites only post current information.
Major Airline Alliances
Below is a list of member airlines for each alliance. The changes from last time are specified with notes in brackets or struck-through (if no longer a member). There were several changes throughout the three major airline alliances this time, which triggered the update today.
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Oneworld |
SkyTeam |
Star Alliance |
| Alaska Airlines | Aerolíneas Argentinas | Aegean Airlines |
| • Hawaiian Airlines (added) | Aeromexico | • Olympic Air |
| • Horizon Air | • Aeromexico Connect | Air Canada |
| • SkyWest Airlines | Air Europa | • Air Canada Express |
| American Airlines | • Air Europa Express | • Air Canada Jetz (added) |
| • American Eagle | Air France | • Air Canada Rouge |
| British Airways | • Air France Hop | Air China |
| • BA CityFlyer | China Airlines | |
| • BA EuroFlyer | China Eastern Airlines | |
| Cathay Pacific | ||
| • HK Express (added) | • Shanghai Airlines | |
| Fiji Airways | Delta Air Lines | Air India |
| • Fiji Link | • Delta Connection | |
| Finnair | Garuda Indonesia | Air New Zealand |
| • Nordic Regional Airlines | Kenya Airways | All Nippon Airways |
| Iberia | KLM | |
| • Iberia Express | • ANA Wings (re-added) | |
| • Iberia Regional | • KLM Cityhopper | |
| Japan Airlines | Korean Air | |
| • Hokkaido Air System | Middle East Airlines | Asiana Airlines |
| • J-Air | Saudia | |
| • Japan Air Commuter | Scandinavian Airlines | |
| • Japan Transocean Air | • SAS Connect | Austrian Airlines |
| Malaysia Airlines | • SAS Link | Avianca |
| Oman Air | TAROM (added) | • Avianca Costa Rica |
| Qantas | Vietnam Airlines | • Avianca Ecuador |
| • Jetconnect | Virgin Atlantic | • Avianca El Salvador |
| • QantasLink | XiamenAir | • Avianca Express (re-added) |
| Qatar Airways | • Avianca Guatemala | |
| Royal Air Maroc | Suspended | Brussels Airlines |
| • Royal Air Maroc Express | Aeroflot | Copa Airlines |
| Royal Jordanian | ||
| SriLankan Airlines | ||
| Croatia Airlines | ||
| Suspended | EgyptAir | |
| S7 Airlines | ||
| Ethiopian Airlines | ||
| EVA Air | ||
| LOT Polish Airlines | ||
| Lufthansa | ||
| • Lufthansa City Airlines | ||
| Shenzhen Airlines | ||
| Singapore Airlines | ||
| South African Airways | ||
| Swiss International Air Lines | ||
| TAP Portugal | ||
| • TAP Express | ||
| Thai Airways International | ||
| Turkish Airlines | ||
| United Airlines | ||
| • United Express | ||
Regional Airline Alliances
There is only one remaining Regional Airline Alliance. I am somewhat concerned that the major alliances are becoming very top heavy. I was hoping one of the Regional Airlines Alliances would have grew significantly to compete with the major airlines.
| Vanilla Alliance |
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| Air Austral |
| Air Mauritius |
| Air Seychelles |
| Madagascar Airlines |
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