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Oneworld

Oneworld is one of the three largest global airline alliances. New York-based Oneworld was founded in 1999 by American Airlines, British Airways, Canadian Airlines, Cathay Pacific, and Qantas with the slogan “Oneworld revolves around you”. As of September 2012 it had 12 full members: Air Berlin, American Airlines, British Airways, Cathay Pacific, Finnair, Iberia, Japan Airlines, LAN, Mexicana, Qantas, Royal Jordanian and S7.

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Will China Southern join the Oneworld alliance? Photo: Edward Wong

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