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Code shares and flight costs

I remember thinking how strange it was a few years ago when I was flying from Seoul to Rome on my honeymoon. We were flying Korean Air, but we booked through Alitalia because it was several hundred dollars cheaper than buying the Korean Air ticket. Same flight, same service, different price.

Here's an interesting article on how this works. Apparently airlines are not permitted to cooperate when they set prices for code share flights; this is what sometimes results in big price differences.

Posted by James Trotta at June 11, 2007 6:11 AM | TrackBack