Those are great posts with excellent info. I am wondering in the case of the Asia example, do you know if CO/NW use "blocking" or "open seating" ? I thought open seating, but your post makes it seem like maybe the code share agreement calls for blocking.

You probably know what I mean, but by blocking I mean CO either purchases a fixed number of seats or commits financially in some way to them on the codeshare flight, and when they're gone, they're gone. CO has no ability through its CRS to get at the remaining inventory.

I'm a little out of my area of knowledge here, but somehow I thought the CO/NW agreement was NOT like this - that they literally shared available inventory on the code shares. I gues this is not true? Post if you know. Thanks.