Malaysia Airlines to join oneworld alliance

Malaysia Airlines is to join oneworld, adding one of aviation’s most frequent award winners to one of the world’s leading quality airline alliance. Malaysia Airlines was unanimously elected a oneworld member designate by the Chief Executives of the alliance’s member airlines, at a meeting on the sidelines of IATA’s 2011 World Air Transport Summit, which openend in Singapore on June 6th. A formal alliance membership agreement will be completed soon. Malaysia Airlines is expected to start flying as part of oneworld late next year.