It sounds like I’m talking about programming but I’m not. “Code share” is when two different airlines share a flight code, so that while your Travelocity printout might say you’re leaving Vegas on US Airways flight 7054, you’re really leaving on United flight 1553. Now how do you, as a passenger, know this? You don’t. That’s my point. My luggage knew it, but the US Airways agent didn’t. She had never heard of flight 7054, but when she typed it into her computer, it came up as United 1553. I never saw anyone look so surprised as she did when she typed that in and actually got something back. But I still had to go all the way out to ... more
