While we the travelling customers are facing all this additional inconvenience and hassle, what does oneworld CEO Rob Gurney say:

“Many millions of those passengers fly on multi-sector journeys requiring transfers between two or more oneworld member airlines – and this is really what oneworld, or indeed any global alliance, is all about: connecting airline networks together to make it as smooth and as easy as possible for customers to reach many, many more places than any one airline can on its own.”

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