New airline alliance members

The 3 main airline alliances have been busy recruiting airlines. Here are some recent and upcoming changes.

Star Alliance

• TAM joined 13 May 2010 – restoring much South America coverage lost when Varig failed.
• Aegean Airlines (and Olympic Air) joins 30 June 2010.
• Air India will join, eventually (originally due to join early 2009).

Oneworld

• S7 will join in 2010.
• Kingfisher Airlines will join in 2011.

Sky Team

• Vietnam Airlines joined on 10 June 2010.
• On 22 June 2010 associate member airlines Air Europa and Kenya Airways became full members.
• TAROM joined on 25 June 2010.
• China Eastern Airlines will join in 2011.

The “how to get to” series of posts will be updated in due course.  All the recent changes have been allowed for in the recent posts on the global reach of the airline alliances – Star Alliance, Oneworld and Sky Team (coming soon).