Premier Traveler title gives oneworld seventh ‘best alliance’ award of the year

Readers of Premier Traveler magazine have voted one world “Best Airline Alliance” in the magazine’s Best of 2013 readers’ survey.

This latest honour gives one world an unprecedented virtual clean sweep of premier “best alliance” titles, with seven “best alliance” trophies presented in the past year in the top international airline industry consumer award schemes.

This comes as one world undergoes the biggest expansion programme in its history.

Already in the past year, one world has been named best airline alliance in:

• The 2013 World Airline Awards, staged by the Skytrax airline quality ratings agency.
• Business Traveller’s 2013 Awards.
• Global Traveler’s GT Tested Reader Survey 2012 Awards for the third year running.
• World Travel Awards 2012 for the 10 th consecutive year.
• Australian Business Traveller 2012 for the second year running.
• The 2012 debut alliance Flight Stats On-Time Performance Awards.

The Premier Traveler award will be presented at a ceremony in Los Angeles in early December, when details of individual airline winners will be announced. It is the first time that one world has gained the magazine’s “best alliance” award.

one world CEO Bruce Ashby said: “one world aims to be the first choice airline alliance for frequent international travelers, just the kind of people who read Premier Traveler magazine, so we are delighted that they have given one world first place billing in their Best of 2013 survey, giving one world a clean sweep of all the major ‘best alliance’ titles over the past year. We are honoured.”