Originally Posted by
lixiaojuventus
This has always been the case. When I search flights between the States and Beijing, all flights transferring in NRT are operated by JAL's NRT-PEK, but not ANA's NRT-PEK nor Air China's NRT-PEK. I was wondering why not using partner's flights, but driving business to a non-partner instead?
Well it's rather convenient for those of us who are trying to requalify with AA whilst burning our last UA SWUs, isn't it?