Originally Posted by
dckozak
On the other end of the flying pyramid, airlines are negotiating deals with their partner airlines, sharing seats, code sharing flights; so you think your booking a flight to, say, Paris on Delta or American, but in reality it is flown by Air France or British Airways.
Of the 16 flights LHR-DFW shown on the BA web site for next Thursday (random day) only one of the three non-stops is BA and six of the thirteen connecting flights are totally AA or US Air. It works both ways.