Originally Posted by
alesfo
If the rule is based on the ticketing carrier, then it seem that with a skyteam non-KL ticket I should be always able to check a second bag. The net effect of this asymmetry would be that people just start to systematically buy their tickets via AZ rather than KL and fly in codeshare.
I believe rules are usually based on the ticketing carrier - we've never to pay for baggage on FlyBe codeshares whereas those on FlyBe tickets have to pay.
So this probably means that there are quite a few itineraries where we can check bags for free if we book our tickets on someone else's code.