Originally Posted by BumpMe!
...NWA.com regularly sells flights with KL flight numbers for flights from the US to Europe on BOTH KL & NW metal.
If you are saying these tickets do not qualify for 100% CO EQM, I'll have to disagree.
Nope. All I was saying was that xyzzy's theory was wrong (which is unusual for xyzzy--he's usually right). CO EQMs can't be determined by NW vs. KL ticket stock.
All NW or KL tickets purchased through nwa.com will be issued on NW ticket stock, meaning the ticket number will begin with 012. I believe tickets issued on KL stock begin with 074. FWIW, tickets issued on CO stock begin with 005, DL is 006, AA is 001, etc.
My hunch is that UAwatcher's assertion that CO EQMs are based on metal is correct. Every other CO or NW EQM situation seems to be based on the metal flown, not the code or ticket stock.