Why Does Delta Have Codeshare Partners?

[goin2disneyagain]

While searching for flights for November, Delta has a codeshare partner CanadiaAir which is a 70 passenger plane for the times that I'm looking for.

I cannot see myself flying on a small 70 person plane . . .anyone know if these codeshare flights end up as regular larger planes?

All airlines have codeshare partners, this is not uncommon at all.

 

[manning]

Isn't code sharing fun? Some years there was a crisis in the family and two members of the family had to get to Tampa. Both made their own reservations and each got the only seat left. One flew Delta and the other on Air India. To their surprise it was the same airplane.

 

[DebbieB]

Codesharing allows the airlines to offer service to more cities under one reservation. Say for example I want to go from Pittsburgh to Burbank CA. There are no direct flights. Airline A can fly me Pittsburgh to Phoenix, Airline B can fly me Phoenix to Burbank. By codesharing, I can fly both under 1 reservation, only checking in once, my luggage is tagged straight to Burbank.

Codesharing really has nothing to do with regional jets. Regional jets are used for cities that don't have enough passengers to support the large jets plus they can offer more frequent flights than if they were flying bigger planes. I'd rather have the choice of 4 flights per day on regional jets than 1 flight per day on a big jet.