Originally Posted by
randomasian
I think it would be good to more explicitly clarify that not all partner flights sold on the JAL website are codeshares.
For example, from Paris to Tokyo, you can fly on Qatar with a layover in Doha. The first segment may be sold as QR040 and the second segment as JL7994 with both flights being operated by Qatar. Even though the entire itinerary was booked through the JAL website, only the second flight is a codeshare that counts as a JAL flight while the first flight will not.
And often the JL codeshare on the short haul European flights sell out before the native flight number does. So JL5324 may be unavailable but AF1151 is available despite being the same flight. Or the website may list both, sometimes with a different price that often means the native flight number is cheaper than the JAL flight number.