A business arrangement in which two or more airlines sell seats on the same physical flight under their own separate flight numbers, though only one airline, the operating carrier, actually flies it. The first codeshare relationship began in 1967 between Allegheny Airlines and Henson Airlines, but the term itself was coined in 1989 when Qantas and American Airlines launched the first codeshare flights between Australia and the United States in 1990, letting a passenger book a single-code itinerary across a route no single carrier flies alone. The same idea has extended beyond airlines into air-rail alliances, marketed in Europe as Rail and Fly arrangements, which let a passenger book a single ticket covering both a flight and a connecting train journey.
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Core ConcernAirlines selling seats on each other's flights under their own flight numbers 1 FAQs
In a codeshare flight, who is actually flying the plane?
Only one airline, the operating carrier, actually flies a codeshare flight; the others are marketing carriers reselling seats under their own flight number.
In a codeshare agreement, two or more airlines sell seats on the same physical flight under their own separate flight numbers, though only one airline, the operating carrier (also called the administrating carrier), actually flies it; a flight is operated by one airline while seats are sold for the flight by all cooperating airlines using their own designator and flight number. The first codeshare relationship began in 1967 between Allegheny Airlines and Henson Airlines, but the term itself was coined in 1989, and Qantas and American Airlines launched the first flights actually marketed as a codeshare, between Australia and the United States, in 1990. The same idea has extended beyond airlines into air-rail alliances, formally known by that name and commonly marketed in Europe as Rail and Fly, due to the popularity of the Deutsche Bahn codeshare with many airlines, letting a passenger book a single ticket covering both a flight and a connecting train journey.
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WikipediaLead section
a flight is operated by one airline (technically called an 'administrating carrier' or 'operating carrier') while seats are sold for the flight by all cooperating airlines using their own designator and flight number
Air-rail alliances section (Rail and Fly branding)
There are also code sharing arrangements between airlines and railway companies, formally known as air-rail alliances, and commonly marketed as "Rail & Fly" due to the popularity of the Deutsche Bahn codeshare with many airlines.
Exemplifies: Qantas, Historical origin
the term 'code sharing' itself was coined much later in 1989 by Qantas and American Airlines, who launched their first codeshare flights between Australian and U.S. cities in 1990
Part Of: Intermodal Transport, Air-rail alliances section (ticket integration sentence)
They involve some integration of both types of transport, e.g., in finding the fastest connection and allowing the transfer between plane and train using a single ticket.
- Preceded By: Interlining
In Group: Air Traffic Rights and Airline Alliance Concepts, Lead sentence
A codeshare agreement, also known as codeshare, is a business arrangement, common in the aviation industry, in which two or more airlines publish and market the same flight under their own airline designator and flight number (the "airline flight code") as part of their published timetable or schedule.
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