English Explanatory Dictionary

codeshare

English dictionary entry

Meanings

noun
  1. An agreement whereby an airline buys space on another airline and markets the extra space as its own. Often used to increase a route network without the costs of running a full service.
verb
  1. To buy space on (a flight) in this way.

Word forms

codeshare codeshares codesharing codeshared

Etymology

From code + share, because of the change in the flight's two-letter airline identity code. One aircraft will have two or more codes and flight numbers.

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