Tomasz Pa

I understand feeding Latam but Iberia?

SK AAR

I would but a LH ticket to BOG and a cheap AV ticket to Cartagena (CTG) - also to avoid US transfer which is currently not possible if arriving from Schengen.

oliver2002

LH has an agreement with AA to feed them in Europe (mainly MUC and FRA). AA in turn feeds LH in MIA and CLT. This looks like a AA codeshare messed with the routing table 😕

prathetkrungthep

Was the AA agreement a legacy from US Airways which was a Star Alliance partner? Always seemed weird to me that LH serves CLT (whereas other AA hubs like MIA or PHL makes sense as destinations on their own) but this makes sense.

oliver2002

US was CLT/PHL so yes some of that is legacy US arrangement. The MIA deal was AA connections to the Caribe, they also had some things in DFW that date back before CO became UA.

curt

Useless trivia alert: Before *A, there was a lot of AA/ LH interlining at SFO, DFW, SJU and ORD.

zrh2yvr

This is my trip on Friday !!!! And - Colombia is 100% open. Then - on the way back - if you are out of Europe until the 15th day - you could return via USA (you need 14 full days out after the day of departure from Europe).

As for the *A feeders - it will be the fare of the TATL carrier that dictates this. The long-haul carriers often setup fares with feeder flights from all types of carriers - it makes pricing easier (and better) and gets more traffic on the long-haul - which is the goal. The short-haul carrier doing the feeder flight gets very little revenue . . so - - both sides have to agree on this for the fare to be setup. I did check the IB fares FRA-CTG and they do not provide for LH feeder traffic - so this must be either a hacker fare or some special combination.

My ticket (now to AUA via BOG) was originally ZRH-MIA-GCM with AA operating the GCM leg. That would be pretty typical that AA is taking inbound long-haul to get to GCM. However, on almost all other Caribbean routes, there are no AA segments allowed on the *A TATL fares.

Tomasz Pa

If wasnjun an example, I personally took bussiness class for two for 1999EUR to Bog from MAD. I was just curios since when LH was feeding AA.