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Oneworld (CRS: *O), branded as "oneworld", is one of the world's three largest global airline alliances with its central management team, Oneworld Management Company, based in New York City, New York, USA. Oneworld was founded in 1999 by American Airlines, British Airways, Canadian Airlines, Cathay Pacific, and Qantas. The alliance slogan is "Oneworld revolves around you".
The alliance had the biggest expansion in its history in 2007 when Japan Airlines, Malév and Royal Jordanian joined as full members, while Cathay Pacific's subsidiary Dragonair, five subsidiaries of Japan Airlines and two subsidiaries of LAN joined as affiliate members. In 2009, Oneworld celebrated its 10th anniversary with the introduction of a new standard Oneworld livery that all of its member airlines adopted on a proportion of their fleets and a special version of its logo.
By July 2011, Oneworld and its members-elect reached over 870 destinations in 146 countries, including announced destinations but not yet commenced. It operates over 9,300 daily flights, carrying 335 million passengers on a combined fleet of over 2,400 aircraft. Since late 2002, Oneworld member airlines have developed common specifications across their engineering and maintenance activities, reducing costs through bulk buying and parts sharing. It was also the first airline alliance to introduce interline e-ticketing across all member airlines' network.
Barack Hussein Obama II (i/bəˈrɑːk huːˈseɪn oʊˈbɑːmə/; born August 4, 1961) is the 44th and current President of the United States. He is the first African American to hold the office. In January 2005, Obama was sworn in as a U.S. Senator in the state of Illinois. He would hold this office until November 2008, when he resigned following his victory in the 2008 presidential election.
Born in Honolulu, Hawaii, Obama is a graduate of Columbia University and Harvard Law School, where he was the president of the Harvard Law Review. He was a community organizer in Chicago before earning his law degree. He worked as a civil rights attorney in Chicago and taught constitutional law at the University of Chicago Law School from 1992 to 2004. He served three terms representing the 13th District in the Illinois Senate from 1997 to 2004.
Following an unsuccessful bid against the Democratic incumbent for a seat in the United States House of Representatives in 2000, Obama ran for the United States Senate in 2004. Several events brought him to national attention during the campaign, including his victory in the March 2004 Illinois Democratic primary for the Senate election and his keynote address at the Democratic National Convention in July 2004. He won election to the U.S. Senate in Illinois in November 2004. His presidential campaign began in February 2007, and after a close campaign in the 2008 Democratic Party presidential primaries against Hillary Rodham Clinton, he won his party's nomination. In the 2008 presidential election, he defeated Republican nominee John McCain, and was inaugurated as president on January 20, 2009. Nine months later, Obama was named the 2009 Nobel Peace Prize laureate. In April 2011, he announced that he would be running for re-election in 2012.