Best Alliance

Alright, I know “my alliance is better than yours” is very controversial and possible a little childish! And I’m not saying who my choice is, except that my personal circumstances dictate I do most of my flying with BA and hence oneworld.

Anyway, what I decided to do was look at the “star” ratings awarded to each airline by Skytrax and work out an average rating for each alliance. Here are the results out of five:

ONEWORLD – 4.0

STAR ALLIANCE – 3.7

WINGS ALLIANCE – 3.5

SKYTEAM – 3.3

The individual ratings were:

Star:
Air Canada – 4
Asiana – 4
All Nippon – 4
Air New Zealand – 4
Austrian – 4
BMI British Midland – 4
Lufthansa – 4
Mexicana – 3
SAS – 4
Singapore – 5
Spanair – 3
Thai – 3
United – 3
Varig – 3

Oneworld:
Aer Lingus – 4
American Airlines – 4
British Airways – 4
Cathay Pacific – 5
Finnair – 4
Iberia – 3
Lan Chile – 4
Qantas – 4

Skyteam
Aeromexico – 3
Alitalia – 4
Air France – 3
CSA Czech – 3
Delta Air Lines – 3
Korean Air – 4

Wings Alliance
KLM – 4
Northwest – 3