A commercial arrangement between two airlines, whereby one sells seats on a flight operated by the other.
as modifierQANTAS operates the route with BA under a code-sharing arrangement
Example sentencesExamples
The carrier hopes to add Chinese destinations, either by using their planes or through code-sharing with Chinese carriers, Pinoli said.
The two airlines began their code-sharing and reciprocal frequent flyer program about a year ago.
The airline now has code-sharing on flights into the New York City market, but you can't fly that route from many of its own cities.
Derivatives
code-share
verb
[no object]
(of airlines) enter into a commercial arrangement whereby one sells seats on a flight operated by the other, with each airline using their own flight number.
the two airlines will code-share on flights between the two countries
Example sentencesExamples
For a long time, the airlines code-shared aircraft across the Tasman and cooperated in many other ways on international routes.
The flights from Varna to Vienna will be code-shared with Austrian Airlines.
Qantas code-shares flights with BA from London via Singapore with a brief stop at Darwin and on to Cairns.
Definition of code-sharing in US English:
code-sharing
nounkoʊd ʃɛrɪŋ
A commercial arrangement between two airlines, whereby one sells seats on a flight operated by the other.
as modifierQANTAS operates the route with BA under a code-sharing arrangement
Example sentencesExamples
The carrier hopes to add Chinese destinations, either by using their planes or through code-sharing with Chinese carriers, Pinoli said.
The two airlines began their code-sharing and reciprocal frequent flyer program about a year ago.
The airline now has code-sharing on flights into the New York City market, but you can't fly that route from many of its own cities.