Japan Airlines (JAL), Malev Hungarian Airlines and Royal Jordanian Airlines are to start offering oneworld services and benefits from April 1, in what has been described as the biggest expansion in the eight-year history of oneworld's global airline alliance.

Five other members of the JAL Group: JALways, Japan Asia Airways, JAL Express, J-AIR and Japan Transocean Air will join oneworld alongside Japan Airlines on the same day, as affiliates.