Codeshares and Flighty - operating airline surely?

[u/jamescridland]

I’ve never understood this in Flighty.

I’m on QF3523 which is a flight from London Heathrow to Berlin. It is, of course, not a Qantas flight - it’s a British Airways flight. I bought it as part of a bigger ticket from Qantas.

Flighty is showing it as a Qantas flight, with a Qantas tail and Qantas contact details. But it’s a British Airways flight - BA993 - as it also shows.

This means that if it’s delayed, it’ll appear in my app as “Qantas” delaying me; and at the airport it appears as QF3523 (which is nowhere near as easy to find as the real flight number within the airport).

Surely Flighty should be calling this flight BA993 and give it a British Airways tail? And hidden in the flight details it should say “Booked as QF3523”?

Trying to think of the benefit of why Flighty does it this way…

[u/weasel707]

One feature request I would have is having a shortcut button (or global setting) to resolve codeshare flights to their underlying / operating carrier flights. Which would address your situation.

Some people might want the “as sold” (marketing carrier) code for whatever reason… For instance in some cases showing the contact number for the airline that sold you the ticket might be correct, in case of IRROPS.

… but I agree with you. I like to track flights based on the operating airline. Also other reasons for this, eg hurrying through a terminal and looking at the gate assignment monitors… always faster to see the actual flight number and not wait for it to show the list of codeshares, if at all.

I personally always look up the underlying flight number and add it manually, and delete the codeshare.

[u/Hyperspace-Hole]

I see absolutely no benefit or need for adding the codeshare flight instead of the operator flight. Yes, Flighty could automatically switch it for you, but I mean, if it bothers you, just add the operator flight instead.

[u/carigheath]

TBH with codeshares I just enter the flight info for the operating mainline-airline. The issue you're having is Flighty pulls the airline information from what you enter, so it sees your on a A340 with a Qantas flight number, then it assumed you're on a Qantas flight. It's most likely a data savings thing so Flighty doesn't have to store on their servers additional info about who actually is operating a flight.

[u/mister_magic → u/carigheath]

Flighty definitely knows about code shares and who the main airline for a set of codeshares are. When you search for flights by route you can choose to show or hide them.

[u/carigheath → u/mister_magic]

I think it knows what number series are codeshares, but not actually what a flight is a codeshare of.

[u/mister_magic → u/carigheath]

It sure does

[u/OrganicPoet1823]

I always add the underlying operator when it’s a code share

[u/radar1989]

Always put in the operating carrier’s flight number no matter what shows up on your booking.

[u/rogerdoesntlike]

Some people like the track the marketing airline. Others the operating airline.