Qatar Airways joins oneworld
Qatar Airways has become part of one world®, offering the alliance’s full range of services and benefits.
It joins one world just one year after receiving its invitation , which makes its induction into one world one of the fastest in the alliance’s history. A more typical timeline for an airline to comply with the many membership requirements of one world is 18-24 months.
Becoming part of one world, which holds more “best alliance” awards than any of its competitors, will strengthen Qatar Airways’ competitiveness, enabling it to offer customers an unrivalled alliance global network served by partners that include leading airlines from every region.
Qatar Airways, which serves more than 130 destinations in 70 countries across the Middle East, Europe, Africa, North and South America, Asia and Australasia, is one world’s second member airline based in the Middle East. It makes one world the leading alliance in one of the world’s fastest growing regions for air travel demand.
More than 20 of its destinations and five countries – Ethiopia, Iran, Rwanda, Serbia and Tanzania – will be new to the one world map.
Worldwide, with the other airlines lining up to join, one world will:
- Serve almost a thousand airports in more than 150 countries, with 14,000 daily departures.
- Carry 475 million passengers a year on a combined fleet of some 3,300 aircraft.
- Generate US$ 140 billion annual revenues.