Airline alliance Oneworld has unveiled its new look website, and founder member British Airways has also enhanced some of the regional search options at ba.com.
The Oneworld website has been overhauled to give it a more user-friendly look. As well as nine language specific sites, more links to relevant member airline webpages and a tool to help plan round-the-world trips, the website now includes an interactive network map showing every destination served by a member airline, and the routes flown from them. This links into printable flight schedule information, although you cannot book flights directly on the website – you will still need to visit the relevant airline website to book online.
Says Nicolas Ferri, vice-president for Oneworld: "Our overall objective in relaunching oneworld.com is to make it more useful to our customers, rather than simply providing basic information about the alliance. So we've made it easier for visitors to find the site's most popular features and added new elements we know will be immensely popular, like our new interactive network map."
Meanwhile BA has made it easier for UK regional passengers to search for flights on its own site. In the past travellers searching for a flight, say, from Glasgow to Bologna (via London) would have had to perform the same search several times to check availability and prices on flights either side of their preferred departure date. But now they have the option of searching for flights seven days either side of the preferred date, a function previously reserved for direct flights. This enhanced option should help regional customers save time and get the best deals when searching for non-direct flights.
For more information visit oneworld.com, ba.com.
Report by Mark Caswell
