ymincrement From Turkey, joined Jul 2012, 26 posts, RR: 0 Posted (4 months 3 weeks 5 days 9 hours ago) and read 1179 times:
Hello again..
I had searched at google for a while but I could not find a detail about alliances..
I would like to know their working ways. What do they work for?
As I found some of thrm like IATA regulates only safety regulations.. But some alliances for transit flights like star alliance or sky team exc.. Are there Any other alliances for regulating like min standarts of food service or other services at airport of in plane?
tdscanuck From Canada, joined Jan 2006, 12709 posts, RR: 80 Reply 1, posted (4 months 3 weeks 5 days 6 hours ago) and read 979 times:
Quoting ymincrement (Thread starter): I would like to know their working ways. What do they work for?
They're business arrangements that allow airlines to offer flights outside their own network through code-sharing, reciprocal agreements, mutual frequent flier plans, etc. It's a way of expanding your network without actually expanding your infrastructure...you just merge two networks together and operate them in a way that looks like one network to the customer.
Quoting ymincrement (Thread starter): Any other alliances for regulating like min standarts of food service or other services at airport of in plane?
Since they are contractual arrangements, the parties to the alliance can dictate whatever terms they like. I'm not aware of any that specify minimum food service standards (beyond what their individual regulators require) but there's no reason they couldn't do that.
Going off of Tom's point, the closest thing to that would be reciprocal elite priority services between carriers (e.g., Star Alliance Silver or Gold nets you various benefits like priority baggage handling and priority boarding). Airlines already mandate similar food service standards with their regional carriers to some extent, but that's obviously not the same as demanding that nominally equal alliance partners follow given standards. It would probably just be a major headache for all involved to ensure consistency. I do think it would be an interesting idea (at least for F/J) though.
point2point From United States of America, joined Mar 2010, 1961 posts, RR: 1 Reply 3, posted (4 months 3 weeks 4 days 10 hours ago) and read 544 times:
I think that ideally, alliances will allow almost any reasonably sized city/market (and I'm not quite sure what would define "reasonably" myself) somewhere in the world to be able to have air service to any other reasonably sized city/market somewhere else in the world with only a one stop connection between them. And with those areas smaller than reasonably sized - it would be at most two stops.
At least this is how I see the alliances, and what they are attempting to do. Each of them carve out their areas, and then service these with the above as the goal, and the revenue/yields being as high as possible within these segments of flights.
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