oneworld Airlines Offer You the World - and 15,000 Bonus Miles

oneworld Airlines Offer You the World - and 15,000 Bonus Miles



FORT WORTH, Texas, Sept. 7  /PRNewswire/ -- American Airlines and its oneworld
Alliance partners are offering AAdvantage(R) members 15,000 bonus miles to
encourage them to sample more of oneworld's unrivaled international network and
award-winning service.

The bonus is in addition to the miles normally earned for travel on the
airlines in the alliance.  So those bonus miles could help take you from
Albuquerque or Accra to Zimbabwe or Zurich, or anywhere else in between served
by the alliance's eight member airlines and their 17 associated carriers.  The
oneworld airlines collectively serve more than 575 destinations around the
globe.

To qualify for the bonus, just purchase tickets and fly on American Airlines
and at least two other oneworld member airlines between Oct. 1 and Nov. 30,
2004.  The other oneworld members are Aer Lingus, British Airways, Cathay
Pacific, Finnair, Iberia, LAN and Qantas.   Eligible fares include First Class,
Business Class, or full-fare Economy Class.  (See Notes below).

You must register for the bonus before flying by calling the AAdvantage Dial-In
system at 1-800-882-8880.  Follow the prompts and enter promotion code OW5YR
(69597) when asked.  Or, you may register on-line at http://www.aa.com/offers ,
using the promotion code OW5YR.

Full details of the bonus offer are available on each airline's frequent flyer
program website, with links to them all from the oneworld home page at
http://www.oneworld.com/ .

oneworld Managing Partner John McCulloch said, "The bonus is just that -- a
bonus, in addition to the regular rewards earned for each of those flights.
It's a way of highlighting to customers new and old that if their travels take
them beyond their regular airline's schedules to other parts of oneworld's
unrivaled international map, they'll receive the same high level of care,
service, support and frequent flyer privileges from all other carriers in our
group."

Since oneworld was launched five years ago, members of its partner airlines'
frequent flyer programs have been able to earn miles and tier status points
when they fly on eligible fares on any other airline in the alliance. And they
have been able to redeem them across the entire grouping's network, covering
more than 135 countries and territories.

Besides frequent flyer awards, privileges include tier points toward higher
frequent flyer program membership status, which in turn leads to lounge access,
priority check-in and wait listing whenever you fly with any oneworld carrier
anywhere in the world.

oneworld's eight airlines and their affiliates carried more than 220 million
passengers last year on a combined fleet of almost 2,000 aircraft operating
more than 7,500 flights a day.

oneworld and its member airlines regularly receive more honors in the various
industry award programs than members of the other airline alliances combined,
reflecting the quality of their customer service.  The alliance itself was
named the World's Leading Airline Alliance in the most recent World Travel
Awards, based on votes cast by 80,000 travel agency professionals from more
than 200 countries.  oneworld offers a wider range of alliance fare and sales
products than all of the competition combined and is on track to become the
first alliance to offer the customer convenience of interline e-ticketing, by
the end of 2004.

   Notes
   --  For full details, see http://www.aa.com/offers .
   --  Flights must be in First, Business, British Airways World Traveller
       Plus, or in Economy Class with reservations made and ticketed in fare
       classes Y, B or H.
   --  Frequent flyer award flights do not qualify for the bonus, nor do
       travel industry discount fares or any other travel excluded from
       earning miles or points.
   --  Each customer is eligible for one bonus.  You cannot earn more than
       one bonus, nor earn a bonus in more than one oneworld frequent flyer
       program.
   --  oneworld benefits are only available to passengers on scheduled
       flights that are both operated and marketed by a oneworld member
       airline or on a oneworld member airline affiliate.  Marketed means
       there must be a oneworld airline flight number on the ticket.
   --  Where flights are operated by a oneworld airline, and marketed by
       another oneworld airline (codeshare flights), the airline whose
       flight number is on the ticket will count toward bonus qualification,
       not the operating airline.
   --  At peak periods, access to certain lounges may be restricted due to
       capacity constraints.  Access is available on the day of departure
       when the next onward flight is with a oneworld airline.  Access may
       not apply at a limited number of lounges operated by third parties.
       Access is not available to AAdvantage members travelling on solely
       North American itineraries.
   --  American Airlines AAdvantage members will not earn or redeem miles or
       earn tier status credit on British Airways nonstop flights between
       the United States and Europe.
   --  Each oneworld alliance airline reserves the right to change its
       frequent flyer program rules, regulations, travel awards and special
       offers, and to end its frequent flyer program, in accordance with its
       relevant frequent flyer program rules.  Miles/points may be earned
       only on eligible purchased fares.  Awarding of the bonus is at the
       discretion of each frequent flyer program.
   --  American Eagle, AAdvantage, AAdvantage Executive Platinum, AAdvantage
       Platinum and AAdvantage Gold are marks of American Airlines, Inc.
       American Eagle is American's regional airline affiliate.
   --  LAN affiliate LAN ECUADOR is not a member of oneworld.
   --  All information contained in this document is correct at time of
       going to press but is subject to change without notice.


DATASOURCE: American Airlines, Inc.; oneworld



CONTACT:  Michael Blunt, PR of oneworld, [phone], or

[phone], or  ; or Media Relations of Aer

Lingus, [phone]; or Corporate Communications of American Airlines,

Inc., [phone], or  ; or Press Office of British

Airways, [phone]; or Corporate Communications of Cathay Pacific,

[phone]; or Corporate Communications of Finnair, [phone]; or

Communications of Iberia, [phone], or  ; or

Communications of LAN, [phone]; or Corporate Communications of Qantas,

[phone]



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http://www.aerlingus.com/

http://www.aa.com/pressreleases

http://www.ba.com/oneworldbonus

http://www.cathaypacific.com/

http://www.finnair.com/

http://www.iberia.com/

http://www.lan.com/

http://www.qantas.com.au/

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