Groups and alliances
Airlines belong to each other in two different ways, and only one of them affects your career. The short version: a group shares an owner, an alliance shares a booking system.
Airline groups
One owner, several airlines. Fleet and flying move between them, and a hiring freeze at the parent tends to land across all of them at once.
Still separate employers — separate certificates, separate seniority lists, separate pay.
- Lufthansa Group7
- ASL Aviation Holdings5
- Air France-KLM5
- TUI Travel5
- International Airlines Group4
- ANA Holdings3
- American Airlines Group3
- DHL3
- Lion Air Group3
- Aeroflot2
- Avianca Group2
- British Airways2
- Iberia2
- Icelandair Group2
- Malaysia Aviation Group2
- Qantas Airways2
- SAS Group2
- SkyWest, Inc.2
- Virgin Australia Holdings2
- Wizz Air Holdings2
- easyJet2
Alliances
A commercial partnership between airlines that own no part of each other — codeshares, lounges, frequent-flyer reciprocity, and usually staff travel.
Not an employer. No member can hire you into another.