{"id":240562,"date":"2025-06-23T19:57:11","date_gmt":"2025-06-23T09:57:11","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/simpleflying.com\/skyteam-worlds-third-oldest-airline-alliance-turns-25\/"},"modified":"2025-06-23T19:57:11","modified_gmt":"2025-06-23T09:57:11","slug":"the-worlds-third-oldest-airline-alliance-just-turned-25","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/?p=240562","title":{"rendered":"The World&#8217;s Third-Oldest Airline Alliance Just Turned 25"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The past weekend saw a very special anniversary celebrated in the world of commercial aviation, with the third-oldest airline alliance on the planet marking 25 years in existence. The alliance in question is SkyTeam, which was formed in 2000 following the establishment of the<span class=\"display-card-hyperlink display-card-hyperlink-no-vignette\" data-id=\"255964\"style=\";  ;\" class=\"display-card-hyperlink display-card-hyperlink-no-vignette\"><a href=\"https:\/\/simpleflying.com\/tag\/star-alliance\/\"  >Star Alliance<\/a><\/span> in 1997 and <strong>one<\/strong>world in 1999. SkyTeam began life as an alliance of just four airlines, but has since grown a lot.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The group, which started off with just four airlines, now has 18 full members.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":13,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"om_disable_all_campaigns":false,"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"_uf_show_specific_survey":0,"_uf_disable_surveys":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[396,476,3861,738,640],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-240562","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-aircraft","category-airlines","category-alliance","category-anniversary","category-skyteam"],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/240562","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/13"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=240562"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/240562\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":240563,"href":"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/240562\/revisions\/240563"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=240562"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=240562"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=240562"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}