In the world, there are 3 kinds of airline alliances—One World Alliance, Star Alliance and Sky Team. And in China Flights, China Southern Airlines joined in Sky Team while Air China and Shanghai Airlines are the one of Star Alliance. What are the differences between these two main airline alliances? I think some foreigners who are planning china travel want to know about this. Here I will make some comparison of the rights and interests of passenger in alliances. Hope it useful for you.
China Southern Airlines in Sky Team
As one of the 3 largest global airlines alliances, Sky Team is the fastest growing alliances in the airline industry. Currently it consists of 10 airlines, where China Southern Airlines is the only one that joined domestically.
Sky Team gets more advanced in following aspects:
- Over 14615 daily flights and over 728 destinations;
- The special service called one-stop check-in;
- The frequent flyer programs of all Sky Team members are linked;
- Over 2000 worldwide ticket offices;
- And over 400 members lounges.
Passengers who choose the Sky Team mainly can get access to following services:
- More destinations served;
- Competitive fares;
- Convenient connections;
- Short connecting time;
- One-stop check-in;
- Elite and elite plus privileges;
- Seamless service;
- Air miles earned and redeemed on any Sky Team flights.
- Service recovery.
More details:
Except for its reward tickets, upgrading class and extra amount of luggage privilege from your accumulated mileages, there is one special right (only for elite plus) that assuring to make a reservation. It is said that even overbooking, they still can promise to elite plus members who are qualified followings:
Taking member airlines for 6 or more hours;
Owning or buy full fare economy class tickets;
Book 24 hours before the flight taking off.
Besides, there are so many privileges for elite plus members. Even they have rights to choose their favorite sits.
While in China Southern Airlines, members there are called Sky Pearl club members. And its Gold Member refers to the elite plus members in Sky Team while Silver Member equals to elite ones. So do their rights and interests.
Star alliance in China
Star alliance has 20 numbers of airlines in the world. It is the only alliance that has headquarters located in Frankfurt, Germany. Compared to Sky Team, Star Alliance passenger members can enjoy overflowed all-inclusive ticket and over 700 member lounges additionally.
As to the shared lounges, Air China and Shanghai Airlines call this as One-roof Program. And now, both of the airlines get airport which are oriented by themselves. One is the 3rd airport in Beijing Capital Airport based in Air China. The other is the 2nd airport in Shanghai Pudong International Airport based in Shanghai Airlines. With this one-roof program, passengers can find the counter of the member airlines to check-in and transferring service more conveniently, enjoy the VIP lounges of unity service as well.
p.s.: one- stop service means that once the passenger requires, all the problems can be solved when he or she gets in a one-stop stop. Essentially, it is a sales service system.
In Sky Pearl Club, we can become members of it just by sending messenger to 95539 with Chinese characters pronounced zhuce or ruhui. Surely the way for registration also can be through the Internet or counter in all the airlines alliance.
If you want to have a try, you can start from search on Beijing Flights.
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