Air New Zealand (NZ, Auckland International) and United Airlines (UA, Chicago O'Hare) have entered into a revenue sharing agreement, further deepening the longstanding alliance between the two airlines.
Under the terms of the agreement, the carriers will cooperate to promote and sell each other’s services between New Zealand and the mainland United States, including domestic feeder services in both New Zealand and the United States. It will come into effect when United launches its new 3x weekly San Francisco-Auckland International service on July 1 of this year.
Air New Zealand and United have worked together since 2001 by coordinating on codesharing, frequent flyer programmes, and distribution. Air New Zealand currently codeshares with United on its extensive network in the United States and to international destinations including Australia and London. Likewise, United codeshares on Air New Zealand’s network in domestic New Zealand, Australia, the Pacific Islands and to the USA.
The alliance further strengthens Air New Zealand’s network of strong Pacific Rim revenue-sharing partners which includes Virgin Australia (VA, Brisbane International), Cathay Pacific (CX, Hong Kong International), Singapore Airlines (SQ, Singapore Changi) and Air Canada (AC, Montréal Trudeau).
