Originally Posted by n1rotate

analysis of qr's benefit to oneworld on some of the points and travel websites focus on actual destinations served by qr but not served by other oneworld carriers and that these are limited. Qr adds a lot of 1-stop route options to oneworld that are not possible without qr or only possible with a lot of backtracking. For example just because oneworld serves both budapest and penang, hong kong and nairobi, manchester and karachi, thessaloniki and melbourne doesn't mean there are good oneworld routings between those city pairs without qr, you can repeat that between many european-asian, asia-african, european-african and even asian-asian routings.