First, James Hogan's Etihad bought an equity stake in Air Berlin, a oneworld member.
Since then, most airlines have collected themselves into three different alliances: OneWorld, Star Alliance, and SkyTeam.
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Last year OneWorld Health teamed up with Novartis to research anti-diarrheal drugs for children.
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Air Berlin is also joining the oneworld alliance based around British Airways and American Airlines.
British Airways, American and Japan Air Lines are key partners in the Oneworld Alliance.
On Monday, Qatar Airways revealed its plan to join the Oneworld global airline alliance by 2014.
OneWorld Health is currently developing medicines for diarrheal diseases, malaria, visceral leishmaniasis and soil-transmitted helminthes (intestinal worms).
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So, all three gulf carriers are now, in some shape or form, in bed with oneworld airlines.
Novartis researchers investigate possible drugs, and share the results with OneWorld Health, which tests the drugs further.
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Today OneWorld Health is one of several product development partnerships or PDPs that help bring new drugs to market.
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Even allowing for the fact oneworld is a looser federation of airlines than Star, this is a nonsense.
It beggars belief to think that oneworld can be more than a frequent flyer earn-and-burn alliance under those circumstances.
Today Akbar Al Bakar's Qatar Airways joins oneworld and comes within the fold.
"We would regret it very deeply if Air Berlin left Oneworld, " says Ashby.
The oneworld members are now either in bed with rival gulf carriers or hitched to rival alliance members in strategic partnerships.
In an effort to fix that imbalance, in 2000 Victoria Hale, a former FDA official, founded the Institute for OneWorld Health.
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The merged carrier would continue American's participation in the OneWorld alliance, which was founded by American, British Airways, Cathay Pacific and Qantas.
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With the two largest groupings, Star Alliance and Oneworld, the most straightforward snags are those that limit the miles you can earn on partners.
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Membership in a major alliance, including Star Alliance, SkyTeam and oneworld, can also be considered a reassurance to nervous travelers, Voss said.
At Charles de Gaulle he makes a beeline for the Oneworld lounge, then has his belt off and iPhone out before he even approaches security.
And I predict Star loses Brazil's TAM to oneworld next year.
L'UNESCO, avec des partenaires comme l'AMARC, l'ACP, la FAO, l'IICD, ONEWORLD.
How on earth can a oneworld Air Berlin do a strategic tie up with the leading carrier in a rival airline and keep its loyalty to oneworld?
Ainslie had an aborted America's Cup spell with American syndicate OneWorld before leaving after a lack of opportunites as a helmsman to pursue his Olympic Finn campaign.
Not only that, but the integration made possible by the cloud enabled us to create NetSuite OneWorld, which can run a complex, multinational business in a single application.
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The pair are already members of the oneworld airline alliance.
ItrainOnline partners comprise the Association for Progressive Communications, Bellanet International Secretariat, International Institute for Communication and Development, International Network for the Availability of Scientific Publications, and OneWorld International, and UNESCO.
More alarming to Virgin than losing this opportunity is that the deal tightens the grip that its archrival, BA, and its oneworld alliance partners have on Heathrow, London's main hub airport.
UNESCO, together with partners AMARC, APC, FAO, IICD, ONEWORLD.
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