Question about codeshares

[docjames]

Sorry if this is obvious.

When a flight is a codeshare how do the booking class availabilities work?

eg. a flight i am looking at is a QF operated flight, but has codeshare with BA, Jet and Air France.

QF is showing all J/D class as zeros, but the BA code of the same flight is showing J9 D0. AF and Jet showing J0D0.


Does the BA flight number showing J9 indicate there are actually 9 (or more) J class seats (and no D class) still left on the aircraft (and they're BA's to sell)? If so, if/when do they get handed to other codeshare partners to try and sell?

Or does BA just have a coding gremlin?

 

[serfty]

What it certainly means is that Qantas are no longer selling J on this flight but BA are willing to sell up to nine J seats.

As to why? It could mean that Qantas and BA have an allocation of seating on this aircraft and while QF have sold theirs, BA have not.

 

[docjames]

Thanks serfty.

So in essence, there's still at least 9 physical J seats remaining on the aircraft to be sold (by someone!)

Interestingly on the same flight Qantas.com will still sell J seats (with the "hurry there's less than 5 seats left" )

 

[serfty]

Note that both Seat Counter & Expert Flyer view the fare bucket availability from a North American perspective. Availability can vary on that basis alone (although the trends are similar).

It could also be the case that BA expect some cancellations on their codeshare so are willing to sell more seats.

 

[MissBurrill]

Slightly (well very) off topic but something here reminded me of earlier this year we were trying to put people on the Air New Guinea (Nuigini?) flight from Honiara to Port Moresby. The first flight we could get was 2 weeks away because all the other flights had reached their quota on Australian booked tickets. We told them the tickets weren't for Aussies but for some odd reason there was a quota. Plenty of seats available but not for us to book.

Am thinking we should have seen if the flight had a code share and booked on the alternate flight number.

Karen