Originally Posted by
rurouni212
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.
That is right
the only metric Oneworld is the largest is by corporate/premium passenger numbers- which matters most to the airlines
and possibly the ratio of lounges to passengers carried-OW has the highest amount of Lounges