KLM Codeshares
Apologies if this is a well worn subject. I was scanning Skyscanner (see what I did there) for trips from ORK-MLA and it popped up with
Outbound Sun, 18 Mar 2018
KLM
06:00 ORK 7h 25
1 stop AMS
14:25 MLA
Operated by Aer Lingus, Air Malta
Return Sun, 25 Mar 2018
KLM
07:40MLA 15h
1 stop AMS
21:40 ORK
Operated by Air Malta, Aer Lingus
Now quite apart from that horrible layover in AMS on the way back, when I actually go to the KLM site to check prices, etc, it can't find anything from ORK-MLA, just AMS-MLA. So is Skyscanner lying to me, and the ORK-AMS flight is not actually a KLM codeshare? If I do a global search on KLM, it tells me flights to/from ORK will 'start' on 28th May, but there's a codeshare flight departing ORK at 1650 tonight:
Amsterdam Aer Lingus KL3172 14 Feb 16:50
I can only assume I'm doing something wrong cos computer don't make mistakes, but what is it?! Note that I can't book this flight with EI nor Air Malta either, so who would sell it to me?