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So it may seem a bit boring but stick with me — I'll try to do my best to show you why even for the in - frequent family - style traveler, knowing a bit about airline alliances should be worth your while.

While this post can serve as a bit of a reference for you, you will also find an even more extensive post about airline alliances, fuel surcharges, and frequent flyer miles on Drew's site.

Not exact matches

Fly on nearly any airline One of the great things about Ultimate Rewards is that they have a transfer partners in each of the 3 major airline alliances - which gives you the flexibility to pretty much fly any airline you want.

Thanks to the three major airline alliances (Oneworld, SkyTeam, and Star Alliance), your Membership Rewards can get you just about anywhere you want to go.

We'll be discussing the brave new world of airline alliances, redesigning airline seats, and yes, we'll even talk about upgrading airline food.

But the great thing about being able to transfer your UR points out to travel partners is that once you have a mile in a certain airline's loyalty program, you can fly ANY airline that's a partner or in the same alliance as that airline.

So you thought that airline alliances are about making travel on member airlines a seamless experience?

In general, FlyerTalk is the travel resource where you can find information about airports, mileage programs, earning points and airline alliances.

Two other global airline alliances, oneworld and SkyTeam, soon followed bringing a multitude of benefits to customers and replicating as much as possible the economies of scale brought about by consolidation.

We inquired with American Airlines» spokesperson Tim Smith about new opportunities for Bay Area travelers to earn AAdvantage miles on British Airways flights to London as a result of the new British Airways + American Airlines + Iberia alliance.

I call this «Frequent Flyer Mile Arbitrage» and I talk about it in depth in the MilesTalk Book near the end of «Chapter 5: Airline Miles and Alliances: How They Work and How to Work Them.»

Economy class award tickets to Lisbon cost about the same on all of the alliances, except for American Airlines» off - peak awards.

There have already been some questions raised about airberlin's participation in the oneworld alliance thanks to its involvement in another pseudo-alliance — the Etihad Airways Partners network (a.k.a a group of largely failing airlines in which Etihad has an ownership stake)-- and this latest issue with American in unlikely to make things any better.

For the first time in years I'm not worried about status, and taking the opportunity to try out other airlines and their alliances which can often offer a better product.

Alaska Airlines is not a member in one of the major global alliances, although with so many oneworld partners, in practice, they just about are.

I'll write more later on about alliance partners and how you can best go about finding the most efficient use of your points in a later step, but you can start by just getting familiar with the three main airline alliances below:

All 3 major airline alliances are represented, plus some independent airlines, so just about any travel desire can be fulfilled.

I saw another article today from Gary about Agean airlines and «lifetime» star alliance gold.

Fly on nearly any airline One of the great things about Ultimate Rewards is that they have a transfer partners in each of the 3 major airline alliances - which gives you the flexibility to pretty much fly any airline you want.

Yesterday, SriLankan Airlines joined the oneworld alliance, becoming the first airline from the Indian subcontinent to join a major alliance (there are reports Air India may join Star Alliance, but... [Read more...] about Use British Airways Avios on SriLankan Airlines

Think about partner airlines and alliances, Zito says.

The basic concept is to not think about individual airlines so much but about alliances — that's where you'll try to funnel your miles across various airlines.

As you learn more about miles and points, you'll gradually understand how to earn and redeem airline miles by maximizing alliances and partnerships effectively.

We'll be teaching more about how to make the most of airline alliances.

I'll be going into more detail about how to leverage airline alliances to maximize your airline miles.

Find out about privileges you'll receive on oneworld ® alliance airlines and Emirates.

I liked the tip about signing up for other airlines that are part of the alliance / group.

My guess is that a lot of the confusion about transferring miles and points comes from airline alliances.

In a separate development, American is reported to be in talks with fellow Oneworld alliance member Japan Airlines about investing in the struggling airline with a view to working closer together.

The «OneWorld» blog (no relation to the international airline alliance of the same name) appears to have been up and running since July, and includes posts about recent cases and other developments with international flavor.