Star Alliance(TM), the airline network for
Earth, is offering its customers a special birthday present as the global
airline alliance prepares to celebrate its fifth anniversary this May.
Customers belonging to a Star Alliance airline loyalty program, such as Air
Canada's Aeroplan, will earn 55,555 bonus miles by flying five different Star
Alliance carriers over a 55 day period between May 14 and July 7, 2002.
"We want to thank our loyal customers who have supported Star Alliance
for the past five years," said Louise McKenven, Vice President, Marketing of
the alliance.
"The anniversary mileage bonus easily qualifies for an award
ticket in any Star Alliance airline loyalty program." Fifty-five thousand
bonus Aeroplan miles, for example, qualify for three short haul or two long
haul return tickets in Hospitality Service within Canada and between Canada
and the continental United States.
Star Alliance is the first truly global airline alliance, and is
consistently rated as the world's most successful undertaking of its kind. The
Star Alliance route network currently serves some 730 airports in 124
countries with 11,000 daily flights. This corresponds to a Star Alliance
aircraft taking off or landing somewhere in the world every four seconds.
The Star Alliance member airlines are Air Canada, Air New Zealand, All
Nippon Airways - ANA, Austrian Airlines, bmi british midland, Lauda Air,
Lufthansa German Airlines, Mexicana Airlines, SAS Scandinavian Airlines,
Singapore Airlines, Thai Airways International, Tyrolean Airways, United
Airlines and VARIG Brazilian Airlines.
The exact terms and conditions of this promotion may vary among
participating programs. Details will be communicated by each member airline to
its frequent flyer program members through newsletters, web sites and inflight
magazines. |
