The United States is the United States. Europe is Europe. Correct? Apparently not, when it comes to flying. If you travel regularly, you’ll know about the concept of codeshare. 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.
Typically, a flight is operated by one airline (technically called an “administrating carrier”[1] or “operating carrier”) while seats are sold for the flight by all cooperating airlines using their own designator and flight number.
So, with that primer, so far so good, correct? You fly Lufthansa and expect and end-to-end Lufthansa experience. Well, now an EU ruling states that Non-EU airlines must compensate EU travellers for delays – EU compensation applies when a flight originates in Europe and the itinerary connects in the U.S. according to a new court ruling. Could be good, could be bad. Someone will have to pay: Big Brother says so.
Read more here courtesy of TimesOfMalta.com
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