Originally Posted by itinerantnomad
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).
Not sure I understand your post...
My post was specific to RUSSIA. The Russia-US bilateral Air Service Rights Agreement (ASR) regulates air service (including code shares) between the United States and Russia ONLY. Codesharing LON-NCE would involve the US-France ASR and the US-UK ASR. Russia has no control over a US airline codesharing between France and the UK.
Currently, there can be five such "agreements" with a US carrier and a third coutnry carrier (i.e. UA/LH would be an "agreement"). Each of these "agreements" gets one intermediate point (i.e. UA/LH could use ORD-FRA-Moscow with FRA being the one intermediate point but could not also codeshare on a ORD-MUC-Moscow routing). And each "agreement" gets in total be 14 weekely frequencies.