Oneworld alliance really seems to be in trouble

American airlines-Bankrupt and is now third largest in the US

Qantas - seem to be committing suicide pulling out if so many routes including Auckland LA and London to Hong Kong and Bangkok,Jetstar seems to be taking over their many routes and people here in NZ are speculating that jetstar will take over Auckland to LA.Qantas is also not keen on adding new destination or expanding and seem to try their best to not work with Cathay but against them by not code sharing with them and suggesting a jetstar hong kong

Malaysia airlines , joining soon but its not doing well with Air asia and Singapore airlines competition , it still ahs not been able to make a profit and is just cutting routes like crazy especially to the middle east.

Air Berlin just got saved by etihad really and lufthansa have the edge in Germany

Royal Jordanian- really tiny and their fleet expansion land and route expansion are minuscule compared to their gigantic neighbours

Malev-well it does not operate anymore will most likely leave alliance

Mexicana- is dead is going to leave the alliance soon

Kingfisher- It is so sad that they are in such a horrible position they are India's best airline and entrance into oneworld would have helped them a lot and become a stronger airline also oneworld could have established itself and a brand in India

British Airways Iberia seem to be doing okay but not as great as expected .

Cathay is probably doing the best of the lot has strong growth and high profits, it may leave oneworld.

But the alliance really cannot just have one or two surviving or healthy airlines

Latam may go to star hope it stays with oneworld but with all the other members falling apart them may decide to move.

Jal yay!! the other good story now apart from Cathay they seem to be on track to return to their former glory .

China not one member due to Cathay block of Hainan, seems fair though If hainan wanted to enter oneworld, buying and establishing and airline to compete against and become the main airline in another one world airlines home market is really not a smart idea!! (hong kong airlines already hate them I really do not want to see cathay go kaput because of them, and because they are Chinese owned they do not have to pay EU carbon tax so its really quite unfair competition>

Compare this to star which has United and lufthansa to huge airlines along with airchina and so many other huge airlines

or even skyteam with delta and Airfrance, Korean air and China eastern and southern



So is there a future for oneworld?? I give it just a few years.

By the way oneworld is my favourite alliance but they do not seem to be managing their airlines well or attracting airlines with string balance sheets