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Oneworld (CRS: *O) (styled as oneworld) is one of the world's three largest globalairline alliances with its central management team, Oneworld Management Company, based in Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada. Oneworld was founded in 1999 byAmerican Airlines, British Airways, Canadian Airlines, Cathay Pacific and Qantas Airways. The alliance slogan is "oneworld revolves around you" and its vision statement is "To generate more value for customers, shareholders and employees than any airline can achieve by itself."
The alliance had the biggest expansion in its history in 2007 when Japan Airlines, Malévand Royal Jordanian joined as full members, while Cathay Pacific's subsidiary Dragonair, four subsidiaries of Japan Airlines and two subsidiaries of LAN joined as affiliate members. In 2009, Oneworld celebrated its 10th anniversary with the introduction of a new standard Oneworld livery, that all of its member airlines adopted on a proportion of their fleets; and a special version of its logo.
By November 2009, Oneworld and its members elect, reached over 720 destinations in 142 countries. It operates over 8,300 daily flights, carrying 328 million passengers on a combined fleet of over 2,200 aircraft. It is the only alliance that has members based in every continent, and has extensive networks in Australia, South America and Asia'sMiddle East with Qantas, LAN and Royal Jordanian, respectively. Since late 2002, Oneworld member airlines have developed common specifications across their engineering and maintenance activities, reducing costs through bulk buying and parts sharing. It was also the first airline alliance to introduce interline e-ticketing across all member airlines' network.
Oneworld was voted the world's Best Airline Alliance in the 2002, 2004 and 2005 Business Traveller Awards and named the World's Leading Airline Alliance for the seventh consecutive year at the 2009 World Travel Awards
