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Inability To Book An AC + US Codeshare Flight?

Lucky727 From Canada, joined Sep 2003, 600 posts, RR: 2
Posted (1 year 2 months 3 days 2 hours ago) and read 1470 times:

Hi Folks -

I was just in Key West, FL, and when I got home, experimented with booking YYZ-EYW on AC's website. Now, I know they don't fly there at all, never mind directly - but US does YYZ-CLT-EYW. I just find it strange that AC doesn't even recognize that the itinerary is possible with a connection to one of its *A partners, and doesn't make it bookable (?) AC's site doesn't even recognize EYW as a destination.

I've previously booked all kinds of *A itineraries with mutliple carriers... i.e. AC will seamlessly connect you to UA at DEN, etc. - I'm just wondering if AC & US have limited codeshare-ability, or whether US has some kind of 'poor cousin' status within *A?

Any input greatly appreciated ~

L727

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LOWS From Austria, joined Oct 2011, 984 posts, RR: 1
Reply 1, posted (1 year 2 months 2 days 5 hours ago) and read 1405 times:

I think there is a problem with AC's booking engine. It seems to get confused by "complicted" bookings.

I flew SZG-VIE-YYZ-ORD-OKC last year but couldn't easily book that online through AC. I had to call OS.

usflyer msp From United States of America, joined exactly 13 years ago today! , 1787 posts, RR: 0
Reply 2, posted (1 year 2 months 2 days 4 hours ago) and read 1395 times:

AC and US do not codeshare at all.

Strangely, the easiest way to mix the two carriers is to book through UA, because they codehare with both carriers.

[Edited 2012-03-22 11:05:43]

SA7700 From South Africa, joined Dec 2003, 2916 posts, RR: 20
Reply 3, posted (1 year 2 months 2 days 3 hours ago) and read 1387 times:

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Quoting usflyer msp (Reply 2):
AC and US do not codeshare at all.

Slightly off-topic, but SA and US does not codeshare as well.

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SA7700

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LOWS From Austria, joined Oct 2011, 984 posts, RR: 1
Reply 4, posted (1 year 2 months 2 days ago) and read 1367 times:

Quoting usflyer msp (Reply 2):
AC and US do not codeshare at all.

Quoting SA7700 (Reply 3):
Slightly off-topic, but SA and US does not codeshare as well.

Who does US codeshare with?

Quoting Lucky727 (Thread starter):
US has some kind of 'poor cousin' status within *A

Apparently.

Viscount724 From Switzerland, joined Oct 2006, 21494 posts, RR: 24
Reply 5, posted (1 year 2 months 1 day 22 hours ago) and read 1359 times:

Quoting SA7700 (Reply 3):
Quoting usflyer msp (Reply 2):
AC and US do not codeshare at all.

Slightly off-topic, but SA and US does not codeshare as well.

Ironically, SQ codeshares with US but not with UA.

dumbell2424 From United States of America, joined Apr 2009, 793 posts, RR: 2
Reply 6, posted (1 year 2 months 1 day 18 hours ago) and read 1346 times:

Quoting LOWS (Reply 4):
Who does US codeshare with?

http://www.usairways.com/en-US/aboutus/alliances/codeshare.html

reifel From Germany, joined Feb 2005, 1135 posts, RR: 1
Reply 7, posted (1 year 1 month 4 weeks 23 hours ago) and read 1257 times:

Actually codesharing doesn't mean that the price makes sense. Take VS, they used to have a CO code. However there was no way to get i.e. a FRA-MAN-MCO flight decently priced. If I would have taken FRA-LH-MAN-UA-EWR-UA-MCO then it would be fine.

There is this thing called "Atlantic joint venture", which is LH/UA/BD/AC/CO/LX/SN. All these airlines have basically the same base fare (taxes differ of course) as long as you get the same booking class. And you can mix them how you wish. See? US is not part of this, you will never get a decent price if you try to connect US with one of these...

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