John McCulloch, Managing Partner oneworld

John McCulloch is Managing Partner of the oneworld® airline alliance.

He is based in Vancouver, where the alliance’s global headquarters was established in June 2000.

He was promoted to Managing Partner in June 2003, after serving for three years as deputy head of the alliance's central team, the oneworld Management Company, as Vice-President Marketing.

He began his airline career with Cathay Pacific Airways, covering roles in marketing, sales, country management, distribution, yield management, operations and technology, living and working in most countries in Asia during his 15 years with the company.

Before joining oneworld, he worked for HSBC, one of the world's largest financial institutions. As its Head of Group Marketing, based in its London headquarters, he was responsible, among other areas, for implementing its re-branding in 1999/2000, which saw the group’s various regional banks (Hong Kong Bank of Canada for example) change to the ubiquitous “HSBC” global brand.

He speaks intermediate Japanese and basic Bahasa Indonesia and is an active sportsman and lover of the outdoors. He is married to Yuko, a Japanese national, and has three children.

About oneworld

oneworld includes some of the biggest and best names in the airline industry - American Airlines, British Airways, Cathay Pacific Airways, Finnair, Iberia, Japan Airlines, LAN Airlines, Malév Hungarian Airlines, Qantas and Royal Jordanian and 20 affiliate carriers.

The alliance serves almost 700 airports in nearly 150 countries, with approaching 9,500 daily departures operated by almost 2,500 aircraft carrying some 320 million passengers a year, earning annual revenues of more than US$90 billion.

oneworld enables its member airlines to offer their customers more services and benefits than any airline can provide on its own. These include a broader route network, opportunities to earn and redeem frequent flyer miles and points across the combined oneworld network and more airport lounges.

It is the only alliance whose members collectively achieved a profit in their latest full financial years and was voted the World's Leading Airline Alliance for the fourth year running in the 2006 World Travel Awards, based on votes cast by some 170,000 travel professionals, including more than 110,000 travel agents in 200 countries.

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