Description
An airline alliance is an aviation industry arrangement between two or more airlines agreeing to cooperate on a
substantial level. Alliances may provide marketing branding to facilitate travelers making inter-airline codeshare
connections within countries. This branding may involve unified aircraft liveries of member aircraft.
In 2015, Star Alliance was the largest with 23% of total scheduled traffic in revenue passenger miles (RPMs)/
revenue passenger kilometres (RPKs), followed by SkyTeam with 20.4% and Oneworld with 17.8%, leaving 38.8%
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