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Old Sep 13, 2017, 11:10 am
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Originally Posted by TerryK
+1.:-: Government employees as well government contractors will book on those DL coded flights. Your tax dollars at work.
Yep. In many circumstances, government travelers are required to pay more. On some routes, I suspect that it's a not insignificant segment of the market. A couple such passengers per day on average make it well worthwhile for airlines to bother with the codeshares.
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