Originally Posted by
nerdbirdsjc
United has a special ticketing agreement with Lufthansa such that UA can plate wholly LH-coded, LH-operated itineraries on 016 ticket stock (and LH can do likewise for all-UA itineraries on its own ticket stock). United does not have a similar agreement with any other airline, including other Joint Venture partners (this means at least one segment must be UA-coded or UA-operated).
I understand what you're saying here, and appreciate the information (helps to explain some issues I've had with TATL bookings), but UA will definitely issue single flight itineraries on partners that do not meet this standard. I've flown, for example, TG and AV itineraries that were ticketed on 016 stock under native flight number without any UA segment.