Codesharing definition

Codesharing means an agreement by which another airline places its IATA designator code or future similar designator code on an Air Canada flight and/or Air Canada agrees to place its IATA designator code or future similar designator code (AC or ACA) on the flights of another air carrier. For the purpose of this Collective Agreement, Codesharing does not include a Capacity Purchase Agreement.

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Codesharing means the process by which the Marketing Carrier places its Code on the flight number of a flight operated by the Operating Carrier.

Codesharing means where one airline assigns its airline designator code to a flight operated by another airline and “Codeshare” shall be interpreted accordingly;

Examples of Codesharing in a sentence

• The Company will not enter into any Codesharing Agreement or operate any Codeshare Agreement Flight(s) that violates any of the provisions of this Article and this Agreement.

• It is understood that ACPA requires information in order for it to track the overall effect that Codesharing, Capacity Purchase Agreement and Joint Venture arrangements have on Air Canada Pilots.

• For the purpose of this Collective Agreement, Codesharing does not include a Capacity Purchase Agreement.

• In the event that Air Canada enters into a Joint Venture with a current Codesharing partner which does not operate any flights into and out of Canada and the partner commences operating flights into and out of Canada within the scope of the Joint Venture, the baseline minimum difference in ASMs will be adjusted for such flights, to a maximum of the ASMs associated with one such daily flight.

• For the purposes of Codesharing and Joint Venture commercial agreements, Air Canada may place its AC or ACA code on other airlines’ flights denoted as AC* Codeshare flying subject to the provisions contained within this Collective Agreement.

• General Codesharing means an agreement by which another airline places its IATA designator code or future similar designator code on an Air Canada flight and/or Air Canada agrees to place its IATA designator code or future similar designator code (AC or ACA) on the flights of another air carrier.

• Code-sharing agreement with the condition of transfer of passengers on connecting flights.

• Code-sharing arrangements as discussed in the present paper may either fall in the first, the second or the third of these categories.

• Code-sharing services shall comply with the regulatory requirements normally applied to such operations by the Contracting Parties, such as passenger protection or information, security, liability and others that apply generally to other carriers serving international traffic.

• Prior to the implementation of Codesharing, the Carriers will use commercially reasonable efforts to identify any material discrepancies between their respective Conditions of Carriage and use commercially reasonable efforts to develop procedures to minimize potential service inconvenience or disruption to Codeshare Passengers due to such discrepancies.

More Definitions of Codesharing

Codesharing combines the operation of multiple airlines (transit passengers can fly the whole trip with one airline’s flight code), where only one of the airlines is responsible for setting the price for the entire trip. “Antitrust immunity” (ATI) refers to the approval for the airlines to explicitly coordinate on pricing, capacity, and flight frequency (costs typically remain airline specific).