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Purchasing flights with your airline rewards program just became easier. Search and buy flights and collect frequent flyer points with Alternative Airlines' airline alliance filter. Here's how you do it...

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What is an airline alliance?

An airline alliance is an agreement between two or more airlines to cooperate to a significant degree. Alliances might combine marketing and branding tactics to facilitate travellers making connections under codeshares etc.

How does airline alliances work?

Codesharing allows one airline to sell seats on a flight operated by another member airline, while interline agreements ensure baggage can be transferred automatically between flights on the same itinerary. Behind the scenes, airlines coordinate pricing, scheduling and service standards to provide a more consistent travel experience across their network.

The importance of airline alliances

Airline Alliances are very important in modern travel. Each airline has to focus on their own individual flight routes and don't have the capability to serve every single route in an area. However, through airline alliances, airline's can work together to give passengers more flight options and extend the reach of their travel, without creating a conflict in schedule.

Benefits of airline alliances for travellers

Airline alliances are also very beneficial to passengers. Not only do airline alliances grant you a large range of perks, such as lounge access, across multiple airlines, they also allow you to gain more and more mileage rewards by earning your frequent flyer points for a single account on several different carriers. If you’re member of an alliance loyalty program, Alternative Airlines find you all the flights available that will earn you frequent flyer points.

How to book flights with airlines in alliances

Step 1 - Select one-way option in search form

Search for your chosen flight with Alternative Airlines

Use the search bar at the top of the page to fill in the departure airport and the arrival airport. Then insert your preferred dates to travel.

How to book flights with airlines in alliances

Select the alliances filter

Once you have selected the flight filters you want, Locate the “Alliances” filter on the side of your search results. When you click on the drop-down menu, you will be able to select the airline loyalty program you wish to fly with to make the most of those mileage rewards!

How to book flights with airlines in alliances

Choose the best flight for you

Choose the best flight for you to claim your mileage rewards with our “Alliances filter”. Then insert the chosen payment method and go ahead with confirming the booking.

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Airline Alliance FAQs

Why are airline alliances important?

Airline alliances are important because they allow for further reach and a great option of flights through codeshare agreements. They also give passengers more opportunity to earn frequent flyer points that can be used across multiple airlines in the same airline alliance group.

How do airline alliances work?

Airlines alliances work by airlines having a agreement that allows them to facilitate codeshares and other agreements under the same marketing and branding strategies. For example, if you were to buy a flight with a stopover, the first leg of the flight might be operated under one airline and the second leg of the flight might be operated by another airline in the same alliance group, all under the same flight code.

Which airline alliance is best for you?

A lot of airlines in the different alliances offer frequent flyer programs to help you can the most out of their services and their partner's services. If you're trying to work out which frequent flyer program is the best for you, or want to learn more about what airline loyalty programs are, check out our blog post on the best frequent flyer programs of 2018. See more here.