Is there a way to avoid code sharing

legal_magpie

We see many instances of passengers thinking that they have booked a flight with an EU based airline only to find that the flight, or one leg of it was operated by a non EU carrier. This can cause problems (eg post 11680 in the main flight discussion area forum) when the non EU part of the the flight (e.g. Toronto to New York) was operated by a non EU carrier and that part of the flight was delayed causing the passenger to miss the flight from New York to England. Assuming that the passenger is put on the next available flight and that flight is not delayed the passenger has no redress for the delay except to claim on his own insurance.
Is there a way to ensure that if you book with a particular airline, the flight will actually operated by that airline? And what if the situation changes?

Alan_Bowen

When booking on line there is an obligation to identify the actual carrier so it should not be difficult. If you are flying from the US just avoid United, Delta and American. DL can appear on Virgin routes and American on BA routes, American should be avoided anyway for poor service and constant timetable changes.

Clearly, for internal US routes, you are going to have to fly on a non-EU airline and if it is separately ticketed just make sure you leave sufficient time to connect and chose your connection airport carefully. Chicago and Denver are affected by bad weather more frequently in winter, Atlanta is prone to winds and the east coast can get closed down by snow storms in the winter

Caz3121

legal_magpie wrote: »

Is there a way to ensure that if you book with a particular airline, the flight will actually operated by that airline?

The flight will say "operated by...." next to it to show it is a codeshare and which airline operates it
There are no EU airlines that operate domestically in the US or between US and Canada