Originally Posted by
lingua101
Is that such thing of "OneWorld Alliance"?
I keep hearing this on CX flight announcement. "Thank you for flying Cathay Pacific, a member of OneWorld Alliance". I thought they should just say member of OneWorld?
If they do say
exactly that, it sounds like a spoken typo.
What would be correct is: "a member of
the oneworld alliance."
Ie, the alliance is called
oneworld, so it's correct to say "
the oneworld alliance", which is shorthand for "the alliance called
oneworld", but it is not correct to say "a member of
oneworld Alliance", because that's shorthand for "a member of the organization called
oneworld Alliance".
By the way, I'm writing it as
oneworld because that's the way I see it painted on the sides of some planes (the "one" much "darker" type than the "world").