Originally Posted by
Ambraciot
By what metric? With the pending changes oneworld is larger by: passengers, revenue, revenue seat miles, available seat miles...
It's pretty clear that by the time JJ finishes moving oneworld will be indisputably the largest of the three alliances and *A will be the smallest.
This is not correct.
Star currently reports approximately 670 million passengers annually. Oneworld reports approximately 341 million. Given that TAM (37 million/yr) and USairways (66million/yr) will switch and adding all pending members for Star and Oneworld, Star will have about 575 million passengers annually while Oneworld will have about 467 million annually. I grabbed these numbers directly from the alliances websites.
The story for revenue passenger miles, daily departures, fleet size and destinations are also similar, Oneworld will make an immense jump and significantly close the gap with Star Alliance and Skyteam. However, Oneworld will still be the smallest by most, if not all, quantifiable metrics.