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STARLUX Airlines is a Taiwanese full-service carrier headquartered in Taipei, Taiwan. It operated its first flight from Taipei to Macau in January 2020 and has since added longhaul flights to the United States with service to/from Los Angeles International Airport (LAX) and San Francisco International Airport (SFO) with additional service from Seattle-Tacoma International Airport (SEA) coming on August 16th.
According to report on 14JUN24, in a routine investor's meeting, Starlux Airlines highlights it's intention to seek oneWorld Alliance membership.
— aeroroutes (@aeroroutes) June 14, 2024
oneworld doesn’t currently have a Taiwanese carrier. SkyTeam has China Airlines and Star Alliance has EVA Air while this gap exists in the oneworld member roster. Flights to Taiwan from the United States are pretty competitive with Los Angeles International Airport (LAX) having up 5x daily flights, San Francisco International Airport (SFO) flying up to 7x daily (including flights from United Airlines), and 3x daily from Seattle-Tacoma International Airport (SEA) once STARLUX begins and including Delta’s flight from here.
STARLUX already partners with Alaska Airlines and makes sense to join oneworld. Lucky at One Mile at Time pointed out that oneworld has four founding airlines that are still part of the alliance. These are American Airlines, British Airways, Cathay Pacific, and Qantas. Any one of these can veto new members and Lucky feels that Cathay Pacific might object since Taiwan and Hong Kong are so close geographically.
Anthony’s Take: Starlux seems like a good fit for oneworld and we’ll see if it’s granted membership and how it will closely align with the other carriers if it does join.
(Featured Image Credit: STARLUX Airlines.)
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ONEWORLD needs to eject Cathay Pacific. Then they can get Hainan, China Southern, Philippines as well as Star Lux. Hong Kong isn’t a big financial center like it once was. Hong Kong isn’t the place it used to be and neither is CX.