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Old Jun 2, 2006 | 1:36 pm
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Originally Posted by Gardyloo
I assumed that as well but when I checked the OP's itinerary (using arbitrary Dec/Jan dates) the prices came back identical. Of course it might have been quite different a month ago or will be a month from now.
Interesting. I don't check AA codeshare prices very often, but all the ones that I've seen were at least 20% higher than the non-codeshare, and often much higher. Good to know that sometimes they are matching prices. I had always presumed that most of these codeshares existed to fill the needs of US govt contracts which require flying a US flag carrier whenever it serves a particular route -- even if the price is higher. Giving little incentive to match prices for codeshares. Apparently on some routes there is more to it than that.
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