The airline, which has its own
airline alliance called Etihad Airways Partners, flies to more than 85 destinations worldwide with a frequency of 1,000 flights per week.
American Airlines is a member of a global
airline alliance called One World.
British Airways is part of
an airline alliance called oneworld, which also counts American Airlines as a member.
Not exact matches
In a statement, Chief Executive Akbar Al Baker
called the purchase a «financial investment», and noted both
airlines were part of the Oneworld
alliance.
In a nutshell, as long as you have miles within an
airline alliance, you can
call and have them book you award travel in available space on any
alliance member's flights!
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.»
There have been murmurings that the oneworld
alliance needs a new top - tier elite level to accommodate (and further recognise) the very top elites from the various member
airlines — this would see the likes of Concierge Key and Premier status holders separated out into their own new oneworld top tier (possibly
called «Diamond»).
A lot of
alliance partners don't allow you to search for award availability for other partners on their website and that's really annoying because that means you'll always have to
call in to book and you're not sure what that
airline is seeing in terms of award availability.
A founding member of the oneworld global
airline alliance, in 2011, BA launched a redesigned Executive Club program featuring a new currency
called Avios.