Originally Posted by DCAstudent
The current agreement (last amendment was Oct 5, 2005) allows only 5 codesharing arrangements between US and third country airlines. In addition, only one intermediate point may be used per codeshare agreement. Each of the 5 can have a maximum of 14 weekly frequencies (daily roundtrips). That's extremely restrictive...
Hmmm. However, UA and LH have literally dozens of codeshares (almost all flights, on all routes, even with daily frequencies of 4-5 flights/day in Europe) via FRA/MUC onwards to 3rd countries throughout Europe, Middle East & Africa. So how is that possible?
Also, AA/BA itself have codeshares on LON-NCE for example (6 times daily, thus way above 14/week), with the AA codeshare available every flight. And this is from US via UK to France (3rd country).