Today we talk again about whaté are the flights in cóI say shared in aviationón, expanding thaté es, para qué serves and its benefits.
¿Have you ever arrived at the airport, searched for your check-in counterón o núgate grouper and you haven't found your flight on the departure screens? You see a flight to your destination, with the correct time, but not with your núflight grouper, ¿Eastás confused? ¿Is that your flight in disguise? ¿Is there someone you can consult? ¡Welcome to the world of cóshared sayings of the aerolídenies!
ÚLately there has been a lot of talk about the agreements of cóI say shared that every timeás aerolísigns are signed and doubts are generated about their true benefits, o no, for passengers. That is why we are going to talk again about this type of agreement.
¿Whaté are the cóshared sayings of the aerolídenies?
Although this topic has already been discussedía discussed a long time ago, before some comments on networks, me surgió the idea of deepening this tópeak and thanks to an excellent publicationón of the OAG consultant we can have más and updated informationón about this type of air trade agreement.
First we must put the birth of codeshare in context, dating their first attempts from 1986. In those días, the aerosolsídon't you wantían expand their networks with limited risk, but in many cases they were restricted in terms of dóin the podían fly to and from dónde.
some aerosolíNeas created a solutionónegative, a CóI say shared where they placed their cóI say and a núflight grouper on a flight operated by another airlineíline with which you haveíyear one relationshipón commercial. A great way to virtually expand your own operational network, generate más sales and tell customers that they couldíto sell them a ticket to almost any place in the world, even if it wasn't in your own avión.
Since then, the aerosolsíneas have fallen in love with the idea of cóshared sayings and todayía are common in all markets, but ¿cóhow they work and howáthey are the benefits?
¿Cóhow cs workósayings shared in aviationón?
In the world of aviation dataón, we refer to the «carrier operator» y al «marketing carrier». The operating carrier is Aerolíline that the plane fliesón, provides the crewócabin number, etc., and the marketing carrier is Aerolícompany that sells tickets for the flight.
¿Becauseé there are the cóI say shared?
an aerosolínea recognizes that there is demand in its market to fly to a destination, but the airínea does not operate flights to that destination (or at least not often enough).
the solutionón of cóI say shared:
- the airínea meets a friend, another aerosolínea, that can connect and take passengers from a point to which the airlineínea now flies and take them to their final destination.
This allows the aerosolíoperating line retains most of the revenue from that ticket sale while «feed the tráfico» to the friend. and with luck, that aerosolínea friend, that can be in the same allianceérea, can feed them tráfic in the other directionón, essentially scratcháturning each other's backs. Everyone wins: the aerosolsíneas have the opportunity to obtain más tráfico and más income, and create a superior travel experience with a hassle-free journey for the passenger.
For this to happen, the operational carrier envíto your schedules to the shipping carrier. The marketing carrier places its núflight number in the service and distributes the service of that operating carrier with its own numberúflight grouper. Suddenly, flight BA173 from LHR to JFK becomes AY5473: It is a British Airways service, but in which Finnair sells seats as cóI say shared.
to be más effective, the aerosolsíairlines try to offer similar prices on flights. Nevertheless, Sometimes you can get a bargain on an AerolícóI say shared whose rates have not been completely synchronized with the m ratesárecent s of the aerolínew operator. With demand changing minute by minute, this is not a surprise, but it can be an opportunity for the smart traveler to save some money. If you have saved US $200, ¿do you really care if your ticket Lufthansa has an núAustrian Airlines flight grouper?
Benefits for everyone
The busy network map belowón shows all US domestic routes. in which Iberia, the airínea más big España, has cóshared sayings operated by an aerolíassociated line of Oneworld Alliance:
If you didn't know, it seems that Iberia operates in everything USA. Nevertheless, all these flights are operated by American Airlines, with a noúIberia flight grouper in service. This allows Iberia sell a flight from Madrid a Houston, for instance, with a direct flight to Miami and then a connectionón al IB4945, así the airínea has a network máwide range of destinations, without necessarily having to put an avión in all that network of destinations that we see.
While we can hope that the aerosolíneas operan cóI say shared within its global alliances, many aerosolsínot too oldén have cósayings shared with Aerolídeny that it is notán in their alliance or they don't have one, this also generatesén a desafíthe technologyólogic and integrationónumber of systems, and above all itineraries to coordinate flights.
This is expected to benefit the passenger who flies by air.íline A can be connected by airíline B under the same reservation, generating a tripás quiet for the traveler, let even your suitcase goá checked until final destination, thing that won't happeníif he didn't exist cóI say shared.
¿Have you ever flown on a flight under this modality?? Cuétell me your experience in the comments.
