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Continental Airlines became the first airline to launch a mobile boarding pass service to London's Heathrow. The service allowed customers to receive boarding passes electronically on their mobile phones or PDAs. [76] Continental Airlines left the SkyTeam alliance on October 24, 2009, and joined Star Alliance on October 27, 2009. [77]
Star Alliance is an airline alliance headquartered in Frankfurt, Germany. [5] Founded on 14 May 1997, it was the world's first global airline alliance. [1] As of April 2024, it is also the world's largest airline alliance by market share, holding 17.4%, compared to 13.7% for SkyTeam and 11.9% for Oneworld.
[44] [45] Continental Airlines joined Star Alliance three days later; [46] at the time, it was rumored that the switch was Continental's initial move in a United-Continental merger. [ 47 ] In April 2009 ( 2009-04 ) , the alliance signed a preliminary agreement with Vietnam Airlines for the airline to become a full member in 2010. [ 48 ]
Following the 2010 merger agreement between United and Continental Airlines, United Mileage Plus was chosen to be the frequent-flyer program for the combined airline. [2] The program was subsequently renamed to MileagePlus, and maintains its relationship with its Star Alliance partners, as well as other airline and travel enterprise agreements.
Frequent-flyer programs (or Frequent-flyer programmes) are customer loyalty programs used by many passenger airlines.This is a list of current airlines with frequent-flyer programs, the names of those programs and partner programs (excluding earn-only, spend-only and codeshare arrangements).
Former Star Alliance affiliate members (47 P) Pages in category "Star Alliance affiliate members" The following 11 pages are in this category, out of 11 total.
Pages in category "Former Star Alliance affiliate members" The following 47 pages are in this category, out of 47 total. This list may not reflect recent changes .
Continental Airlines (2 C, 14 P) T. TAM Airlines (1 C, 6 P) Pages in category "Former Star Alliance members" The following 12 pages are in this category, out of 12 total.