Finnair Interline Agreements

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Beyond its oneworld partners, American now offers Interline electronic ticketing comfort with 15 airlines, including most major U.S. airlines – Alaska, America West, American Trans Air, Aloha, Continental, Delta, Hawaiian, Midwest, Northwest, United and US Airways. American has also entered into interline electronic ticketing agreements with KLM and Copa Airlines. British Airways expects to be the second oneworld member to offer interline e-ticketing with all other oneworld members – and thus the second airline in the world to offer this comfort with all its global partners. In addition to the American Airlines route, it has been offering the service with Qantas since April and has launched it in recent days with Finnair. The aim is to extend it to Aer Lingus this month, with the other four oneworld partners connected until the end of August. By then, interline e-ticketing will be available to more than 90 percent of passengers served worldwide between oneworld member airlines. The rest of the Alliance`s network, which covers more than 575 destinations in 135 countries, will offer the service by the end of this year. American Airlines will be the first airline in the world to offer interline electronic shipping tickets with all of its global alliance partners when it completes the rollout of the service with Aer Lingus and Iberia in the coming days, and oneworldTM will remain on track to become the first airline group to offer this customer comfort among all its members. Please refer to the list of agreements below and note that agreements may differ on certain points. Code actions are essentially joint marketing agreements between airlines that allow an airline to place its own flight code on flights (piloted) by another airline and sell tickets as if those flights were theirs. There are many (and some consider too much) code actions that work today. When code actions are involved, the airline that places its code on the flight is designated as a marketing company, and the airline that actually performs the flight is designated as the exporting airline.

There are actually two types of code sharing. The first (and most people don`t notice much) is regional contract flights. Here, the airline that makes the flight does so under a contract for a major airline and does not sell its own tickets. You see it a lot in the United States, where major airlines assign flights and market them with the American Eagle, Delta Connection and United Express brands. Sometimes the airlines (operating) are full third parties (z.B Skywest, ExpressJet) and sometimes low-cost subsidiaries of the parent company (z.B. Envoy Air is a subsidiary of American, Air Japan is a subsidiary of ANA and Rouge a subsidiary of Air Canada). But in any case, these flights will be treated as if they were the marketing company`s own flights, and you will always check in with the marketing company, its baggage will apply and the transfer rules will apply. This is the second type of code sharing that receives the most attention.