S7 Airlines have today formally joined the OneWorld Alliance, making it the 12th member to join.
With S7 joining, it also brings in another airline – Globus Airlines who will join OneWorld as an affiliate. With this move, OneWorld’s coverage will now serve 90 extra destinations extra in 28 countries, with 55 new cities within Russia and the CIS (Commonwealth of Independent States) area – a total of 9 extra countries
For those wanting a few extra miles and are OneWorld members, there’s a double miles promotion going on
S7 Members can get double miles on all flights
All other OneWorld members get double miles on S7 flights only.
This is valid to 15th January 2011.
With this, S7 is now firmly anchored in the area, Aeroflot contioues to be is a long standing member of the Skyteam, whilst currently Star Alliance has no “home” carrier there (mostly “visiting” carriers such as Lufthansa and BMI). With expansion in this region going apace, can Star Alliance live by itself in the area or will it be forced to find a partner to dance with.
And if so, who? Interesting times in the Russia/CIS area….
