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Code Share Fact SheetCode sharing is a commercial agreement between two airlines that allows an airline to put its two-letter identification code on the flights of another airline as they appear in computerized reservations systems. For example, Delta Airlines might have an agreement to operate flights for Northwest on a route. This flight would be listed under Northwest's identification code (NW) but actually operated by Delta Airlines. See Code Share listings at the bottom of this page. Most airlines, including all City Pair Program contract carriers, participate in some type of commercial code-share agreement. These agreements allow carriers to expand their service offerings without additional resources, equipment and costs. Due to these business agreements, many of the carriers cannot legally obligate their code-share partners' inventories for YCA (unrestricted) contract fares. In international markets, the contract carrier will make available all service on offered code share partner(s) proposed on a market-by-market basis. If a code share partner(s) is/are offered and no specific market is identified, then, the contract carrier will make available all service on the offered code share partner(s) in all awarded markets where the code share exists. Below we have noted some examples for illustration purposes only. For domestic markets, below are two scenarios for the same city pair, Washington/Oklahoma City: A. Delta has the contract award. Delta has two flights, both shown as "Delta" in the reservation As Delta did not offer Northwest as a code share partner to the City Pair Program, the B. If Delta had offered Northwest as a code share partner, then the contract fares would be For international markets, code shares are by specific market. Below are three scenarios for the same city pair, New York/Tokyo: A. International - code shares by specific markets: United has the contract award. United has two flights, both shown as "United" in the As United submitted ANA as a code share for this market, the contract fares are available If United had offered ANA as a code share partner, then the contract fares would be available C. International - code shares on no markets: United has the contract award but did not submit All Nippon Airways (ANA) as a code Contract fares will not price on the code share flights if the code share carrier was not offered by the contract carrier. Attached is the list of code share partners' service offered by the contract carriers. Questions regarding code sharing can be directed to onthego@gsa.gov.
Last Reviewed 3/5/2009
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