{"id":51883,"date":"2023-07-10T16:16:34","date_gmt":"2023-07-10T15:16:34","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/accessbusinessenglish.com\/accessabe-mkii-p\/?page_id=51883"},"modified":"2026-03-06T13:12:15","modified_gmt":"2026-03-06T13:12:15","slug":"aviation-intermediate-conversation-lesson-airlines-global-alliances","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/accessbusinessenglish.com\/es\/aviation-intermediate-conversation-lesson-airlines-global-alliances\/","title":{"rendered":"Lecci\u00f3n de conversaci\u00f3n de nivel intermedio sobre aviaci\u00f3n: Alliances mondiales"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"has-ast-global-color-0-color has-text-color has-link-color wp-elements-7741108c55b685b755abd5e79bcee0fd\" style=\"font-size:18px\"><strong>Lecci\u00f3n de conversaci\u00f3n de nivel intermedio sobre aviaci\u00f3n: Alliances mondiales<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"has-ast-global-color-0-color has-text-color has-link-color wp-elements-93f06d6e955a4510c63509186d11576d translation-block\" style=\"font-size:16px;line-height:1.4\"><b><i> Antes de su clase de prueba, escuche la grabaci\u00f3n de audio mientras lee el texto. Adem\u00e1s, estudie las 5 preguntas para comprender mejor los temas que se tratar\u00e1n durante la clase de prueba de conversaci\u00f3n en l\u00ednea. <\/b><\/i><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-audio\"><audio controls src=\"https:\/\/accessbusinessenglish.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/07\/INT-CONBE-Global-Alliances-Minus-2017-Stats-Revised-by-KH.mp3\"><\/audio><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"has-ast-global-color-0-color has-text-color has-link-color wp-elements-e69971ecd1b42436d2ca6006b23cec10\" style=\"font-size:16px;line-height:1.4\">An airline&nbsp;alliance&nbsp;is an aviation industry partnership between airlines which agree to cooperate in a variety of commercial processes. Such alliances normally offer single&nbsp;branding&nbsp;to facilitate travellers making&nbsp;smooth&nbsp;inter-airline code-share connections&nbsp;throughout&nbsp;the world. Additionally, this branding often involves unified&nbsp;liveries&nbsp;of member aircraft, thus enhancing&nbsp;promotion of the brand throughout the world.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"has-ast-global-color-0-color has-text-color has-link-color wp-elements-93270decdb64d7df161e87ca7394a408\" style=\"font-size:16px;line-height:1.4\">There are three global alliances,&nbsp;namely&nbsp;oneworld, Star Alliance and SkyTeam.&nbsp;Commercially, typical benefits include a number of factors such as an extended&nbsp;worldwide&nbsp;network through&nbsp;code-share&nbsp;agreements as well as cost reduction from sharing sales offices, maintenance facilities, support facilities like catering and computer systems, shared ground operations staff, and&nbsp;joint&nbsp;investments and equipment&nbsp;purchases&nbsp;to negotiate volume&nbsp;discounts&nbsp;on new aircraft and other&nbsp;supplies.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"has-ast-global-color-0-color has-text-color has-link-color wp-elements-0969b3a610dfe9ee9562b4df6240d402\" style=\"font-size:16px;line-height:1.4\">Customer benefits include lower prices due to cost savings on&nbsp;given&nbsp;routes; more departure times to choose from on specific city pairs; shorter travel times as a result of optimised transfer connections; a much wider range of shared member airport lounges; shared&nbsp;fast-track&nbsp;access on all member flights for frequent flyers as well as faster&nbsp;redemption&nbsp;of loyalty rewards by earning&nbsp;mileage&nbsp;through a single account for all member carriers.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"has-ast-global-color-0-color has-text-color has-link-color wp-elements-919439b291079795edb924dcc0327d8b\" style=\"font-size:16px;line-height:1.4\">However, global alliances may create disadvantages for customers such as higher prices when competition is reduced on certain routes. Also, two member airlines, both operating on the same route, often coordinate flight schedules to reduce frequency with the purpose of saving costs and increasing profitability.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"has-ast-global-color-0-color has-text-color has-link-color wp-elements-d8ac2181366d702ec338518ba4a8a90b\"><strong>5 Key topics<\/strong>&nbsp;<strong>for discussion in the conversation lesson<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"has-ast-global-color-0-color has-text-color has-link-color wp-elements-4a44403935c6f16c267d2553a14b1d07\">1. Summarise briefly the article and your initial reaction to it. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"has-ast-global-color-0-color has-text-color has-link-color wp-elements-6db0ec159d70f3134b6abcd5bf168c3d\">2. Explain the most obvious common factor shared by aircraft owned by alliance airlines.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"has-ast-global-color-0-color has-text-color has-link-color wp-elements-b8e11b43dfc6a6c2d7dbe6e3ae4e6dbf\">3. Name and describe the main global alliances and their most important member airlines.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"has-ast-global-color-0-color has-text-color has-link-color wp-elements-3d3541abf3031c3f2d5e903754aebbcb\">4. Detail some of the benefits of airline alliances shared by their customer members.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"has-ast-global-color-0-color has-text-color has-link-color wp-elements-86df311c527f71cf35ec752b36f923a7\">5. Describe two negative aspects of airline alliances.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"has-ast-global-color-0-color has-text-color has-link-color wp-elements-bd40d76ecc5aa43a2d82b97778722b07\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.staralliance.com\/en\/about\" class=\"ek-link\"><strong><em>https:\/\/www.staralliance.com\/en\/about<\/em><\/strong><\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"has-ast-global-color-0-color has-text-color has-link-color wp-elements-9adb6935671ad9a190c79fa06a9a3129\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.skyteam.com\/en\/about\" class=\"ek-link\"><strong><em>https:\/\/www.skyteam.com\/en\/about<\/em><\/strong><\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"has-ast-global-color-0-color has-text-color has-link-color wp-elements-f19cef9735aff50d4bb9e8ec58949f37\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.oneworld.com\/about-the-oneworld-alliance\" class=\"ek-link\"><em><strong>https:\/\/www.oneworld.com\/about-the-oneworld-alliance<\/strong><\/em><\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-large\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"1024\" height=\"557\" src=\"https:\/\/accessbusinessenglish.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/07\/Screenshot-2023-07-10-at-18.00.45-1024x557.png\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-51898\" srcset=\"https:\/\/accessbusinessenglish.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/07\/Screenshot-2023-07-10-at-18.00.45-1024x557.png 1024w, https:\/\/accessbusinessenglish.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/07\/Screenshot-2023-07-10-at-18.00.45-300x163.png 300w, https:\/\/accessbusinessenglish.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/07\/Screenshot-2023-07-10-at-18.00.45-768x418.png 768w, https:\/\/accessbusinessenglish.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/07\/Screenshot-2023-07-10-at-18.00.45-18x10.png 18w, https:\/\/accessbusinessenglish.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/07\/Screenshot-2023-07-10-at-18.00.45.png 1184w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1024px) 100vw, 1024px\" \/><\/figure>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Aviation Intermediate Conversation Lesson: Airline Global Alliances Before&nbsp;your trial lesson, listen to the audio recording whilst reading the text. Additionally, study the 5 questions to gain an understanding of the topics and themes that will be covered during your online trial conversation lesson. 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