American Airlines,British Airways and Iberia Air Launches their Joint Venture

In a major development American Airlines, British Airways and Iberia air have launched their Joint Venture which will have a major impact on the European and American Travel and flight industry. Most important of all with the collaboration between the three airlines airfares are going to be reduced considerably. In recent time there have been a flurry of airlines cooperation deals such as that by Continental Airlines, SkyTeam alliance of Air France-KLM, Delta and Alitalia air.

The combined airlines will launch operations in four new routes - New York JFK-Budapest, Chicago-Helsinki, London Heathrow-San Diego and Madrid-Los Angeles from April. Mean time the airlines expect that increased code-sharing will drive prices down as customers will have a greater number of flights from which to choose if the price offered by the airlines happens to be different.

The airlines will:

• An aligned schedules will be launched spacing out departure times to give customers more flexibility.
• Allowing Travelers e to book on any of the three airlines' websites and check in at the desk of the airline they booked with or are flying.
• Also the frequent flyer programs of all the three airlines have been aligned allowing greater customer flexibility.