{"id":11975,"date":"2013-05-24T13:37:00","date_gmt":"2013-05-24T13:37:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/traveloscopy.com\/travel-news\/oneworld-enters-events-and-conventions-travel-market\/"},"modified":"2013-05-24T13:37:00","modified_gmt":"2013-05-24T13:37:00","slug":"oneworld-enters-events-and-conventions-travel-market","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/traveloscopy.com\/travel-news\/2013\/05\/oneworld-enters-events-and-conventions-travel-market\/","title":{"rendered":"oneworld enters events and conventions travel market"},"content":{"rendered":"

oneworld\u00ae, the premier global airline alliance, today unveiled a new, one-stop, easy-to-use service to meet the travel needs for conventions, conferences, exhibitions and special events \u2013 offering attractive discounts on flights across a network spanning 850 destinations globally served by some of the world\u2019s leading airlines.<\/span><\/p>\n

For event and convention organisers,\u00a0one<\/b>world\u00a0events<\/b>\u00a0provides:<\/div>\n
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\u2022 \u00a0An efficient and user-friendly centralised process, with one set of terms and conditions covering travel on all\u00a0one<\/b>world member airlines that can be ready for acceptance just days after submitting the online request form.<\/div>\n
\u2022 \u00a0Discounted flights for attendees plus the chance for organisers to earn and redeem credits for travel on participating\u00a0one<\/b>world member airlines.<\/div>\n
\u2022 \u00a0Simple online access to real-time management reports 24\/7 to help meet attendees\u2019 travel needs.<\/div>\n
\u2022 \u00a0A ready-to-use\u00a0one<\/b>world promotional toolkit to build attendee awareness.<\/div>\n
For attendees,\u00a0one<\/b>world\u00a0events<\/b>\u00a0offers:<\/div>\n
\u2022 \u00a0Attractive discounts on flights for attendees and one travel companion each, onone<\/b>world member airlines, which together serve 850 destinations in more than 150 countries around the globe.<\/div>\n
\u2022 \u00a0A user-friendly booking tool that will display the most convenient flights and multiple fare options from hundreds of departure points all over the world to the event or convention location.<\/div>\n
\u2022 \u00a0Travel on a collection of some of the world\u2019s leading airlines.<\/div>\n
\u2022 \u00a0Round-the-clock support, with the\u00a0one<\/b>world\u00a0events<\/b>\u00a0helpdesk ready to help via email or phone.<\/div>\n
\u2022 \u00a0All usual privileges and benefits to members of any\u00a0one<\/b>world member airline frequent flyer programme \u2013 including the ability to earn miles\/points and, for top tier cardholders and one companion each, to use any of the 550 airport lounges provided by the alliance\u2019s airlines the world over. Attendees who are not yet members can sign-up before they depart and then receive their benefits and privileges on their way to or from their convention of event.<\/div>\n
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\none<\/b>world\u00a0events\u00a0<\/b>is aimed at conferences, conventions, exhibitions and special events targeting a minimum of 500 international attendees travelling from at least two regions. \u00a0Requests are accepted as early as five years in advance and up to three months prior to the event date.<\/div>\n
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Industry data indicates that 3.5 million delegates attend these kinds of conferences and events around the world every year, spending around US$ 1.5 billion on air travel.<\/div>\n
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The\u00a0one<\/b>world alliance brings together leading airlines from around the world – airberlin, American Airlines, British Airways, Cathay Pacific Airways, Finnair, Iberia, Japan Airlines, LAN Airlines, Malaysia Airlines, Qantas, Royal Jordanian and S7 Airlines.<\/div>\n
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Besides these 12 full member airlines,\u00a0one<\/b>world also features around 30 \u201caffiliate\u201d members, expanding its network further. They include Austria\u2019s NIKI, China\u2019s Dragonair, US regional American Eagle, South Africa\u2019s Comair, Denmark\u2019s SUN-AIR, transatlantic carrier OpenSkies, LAN Argentina, LAN Ecuador, LAN Peru and, soon, LAN Colombia.<\/div>\n
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\none<\/b>world is currently undergoing one of its biggest expansion drives in its history. \u00a0Lining up to join\u00a0one<\/b>world in the year ahead are:<\/div>\n
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\u2022 \u00a0Qatar Airways, one of the world\u2019s most highly regarded and fastest growing carriers, and the first of the Gulf Big Three airlines to sign for any global airline alliance.<\/div>\n
\u2022 \u00a0SriLankan Airlines, which will be the first carrier from the Indian sub-continent to join any of the global airline alliances.<\/div>\n
\u2022 \u00a0TAM Airlines, the leading airline in Latin America\u2019s biggest economy, Brazil.<\/div>\n
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In addition, US Airways, one of the world\u2019s largest airlines, is planning to move intoone<\/b>world, through its proposed merger with American Airlines, subject to approvals.<\/div>\n
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With the addition of its members elect, the\u00a0one<\/b>world network will soon grow to almost a thousand destinations in nearly 160 countries served by a combined fleet of some 3,300 aircraft operating more than 13,000 daily departures and carrying 480 million customers a year.<\/div>\n
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\none<\/b>world\u00a0events<\/b>\u00a0was unveiled today at IMEX, in Frankfurt – the world\u2019s biggest annual convention for the conferences, conventions, exhibitions and events industry.<\/div>\n
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Launching the product,\u00a0one<\/b>world Director Sales Jos\u00e9 Mar\u00eda Alvarado said: \u201cUniquely among global airline alliances,\u00a0one<\/b>world counts all four of the top country markets for big global gatherings as homes to member airlines \u2013 USA, Germany, Spain and UK. \u00a0But virtually wherever you are holding an event or exhibition,\u00a0one<\/b>world member airlines will be able to get you there.<\/div>\n
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\u201cThis makes\u00a0one<\/b>world an obvious choice as a travel partner for most of the world\u2019s big conventions and events. Our new\u00a0one<\/b>world\u00a0events<\/b>\u00a0programme is both simple and speedy to use, with very attractive discounts on published fares.\u201d<\/div>\n
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For further information, see\u00a0one<\/b>world.com<\/a>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

oneworld\u00ae, the premier global airline alliance, today unveiled a new, one-stop, easy-to-use service to meet the travel needs for conventions, conferences, exhibitions and special events \u2013 offering attractive discounts on flights across a network spanning 850 destinations globally served by some of the world\u2019s leading airlines. For event and convention organisers,\u00a0oneworld\u00a0events\u00a0provides: \u2022 \u00a0An efficient and […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-11975","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/traveloscopy.com\/travel-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11975","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/traveloscopy.com\/travel-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/traveloscopy.com\/travel-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/traveloscopy.com\/travel-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/traveloscopy.com\/travel-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=11975"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/traveloscopy.com\/travel-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11975\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/traveloscopy.com\/travel-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=11975"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/traveloscopy.com\/travel-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=11975"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/traveloscopy.com\/travel-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=11975"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}