Oneworld alliance welcomes Mexicana on board
Mexicana becomes part of oneworld® at midnight tonight – adding Mexico and Central America’s leading airline to the world’s leading quality airline alliance. Its subsidiaries MexicanaClick and MexicanaLink join oneworld at the same time, as affiliate members. All three airlines will offer the alliance’s full range of services and benefits with the first flights tomorrow.
They extend the oneworld network to almost 700 destinations in nearly 150 countries, with a combined fleet of some 2,250 aircraft operating more than 8,000 flights a day, carrying 325 million passengers a year, with annual revenues of $100 billion.
A massive promotional program will be launched today to highlight the group’s addition to the alliance. Mexicana is offering passengers flying with the airline in the next four weeks the chance to win a pair of tickets for a trip of a lifetime right around the world, flying with its new oneworld partners.
A Mexicana Airbus A320 and MexicanaClick Boeing 717 were unveiled today at their Mexico City hub – decorated in oneworld’s alliance livery. oneworld’s award-winning Travel and Charging Stations land for the first time in Latin America, installed today at Mexico City’s Benito Juarez International Airport.
Mexicana’s market-leading Mexican and Central American network are covered starting at midnight tonight by oneworld’s full and extensive range of alliance fares and sales products – including its new Visit Mexico and Central America pass. Mexicana’s addition comes a day after oneworld was named the World’s Leading Airline Alliance for the seventh year running in the World Travel Awards.
As it updates its Web site to mark the addition of Mexicana, oneworld is also enhancing its online services to include a Spanish version of its popular round-the-world booking tool, an iPhone flight search application and a complete mobile website for customers using Blackberrys, iPhones and other smartphones.
As of tomorrow, members of the MexicanaGO frequent flyer program can earn and redeem mileage awards on all oneworld partners, which include some of the biggest and best airlines in the world – American Airlines, British Airways, Cathay Pacific Airways, Finnair, Iberia, Japan Airlines, LAN Airlines, Malev Hungarian Airlines, Qantas and Royal Jordanian and almost 20 affiliated airlines. Russia’s leading domestic carrier S7 Airlines is on track to join during 2010.
there is a growing trend in mobile websites this year alone’-”
hmmm, i would love to browse mobile websites from now on, -`”