In May 1997 Air Nostrum signed an Agreement of  Franchise with the Iberia Group by a period of 5 years, that has been renewed since then.

 

Through this agreement the flights of Air Nostrum started to be commercialized by Iberia, company leader at the Spanish and international market. This agreement has supposed for Air Nostrum a remarkable increase of connection passengers, at the same time contributes to increase the passage of Iberia to its two centers of distribution in Spain: Madrid and Barcelona.

 

The schedules programmed in the flights of Air Nostrum, allow passengers the connection of their flights with all the world-wide network of destinies of the Iberia Group. It means the power to connect with more than 107 own destinies of the Group, as well as with the 67 destinies that at the moment makes in shared code.

 

On the other hand, from the  1st of September of 1999 Air Nostrum became a member of  Oneworld. With the support of Iberia, Air Nostrum has been integrated in the greater alliance of the sector entering in the greater network of flights of the world.

 

Through this agreement all the clients of Oneworld will be able to choose among more than 600 destinies offered by the companies of the alliance (Iberia, Aer Lingus, American Airlines, British Airways, Cathay Pacific, Finnair, LAN and Qantas)  which are attended  by 240.000 employees and have got the biggest fleet of civil aviation of the world: almost 2.000 airplanes.

The network of this alliance is distributed throughout 134 countries, being used by more than 240 million annual passengers.

 

Air Nostrum has benefitted from its entrance in Oneworld since it has had the opportunity of improving its occupation factors, scale economies and sharing resources with the remaining members, to accede to new markets and locate themselves with greater force in those in which it maintains a leadership.