American Adds Codeshare with BA Premium Venture

Posted 12/12/2011

American Airlines and OpenSkies, the premium subsidiary of British Airways, have signed a new codeshare agreement that enhances travel options between Europe and the US.  The agreement allows American to place its code on OpenSkies flights between Newark Liberty International Airport and Paris Orly Airport and also extends connecting opportunities for OpenSkies passengers via Newark Liberty to Dallas/Fort Worth, Chicago O'Hare, Los Angeles and Miami on American’s own flights.

"This new codeshare relationship will give our customers more opportunities to seamlessly connect to Europe while enjoying the premium experience OpenSkies has to offer," said Kenji Hashimoto, Vice President - Strategic Alliances, American Airlines.  "American and OpenSkies are looking into additional opportunities to enhance our relationship and offer our joint customers further benefits in the future."

OpenSkies offers an all premium service using a fleet of four specially configured Boeing 757-200s that offers Business Class seats that convert to fully flat beds as well as others that recline to 140 degrees.

"This codeshare agreement will further develop into OpenSkies joining the joint business agreement between American Airlines, British Airways and Iberia effective January 1, 2012, bringing added benefits for transatlantic travel," added Patrick Malval, Managing Director, OpenSkies.

---

With effect from March 19, 2012 the Breaking News coverage on Routesonline is powered by Airline Route.  For more analysis on these stories please read our expanded coverage of the key stories of the day in The HUB. 

You can also keep up to date with the latest network development news by following the live updates from @Routesonline, @TheHUBRoutes, @RouteExchange and @airlineroute on Twitter.  While all the latest news from our events can be seen by searching the #RoutesAfrica, #RoutesAmericas, #RoutesAsia, #RoutesCIS, #RoutesEurope and #WorldRoutes hashtags.

All material is copyright of UBM Aviation Routes but the views expressed are not necessarily the views of UBM Aviation Routes and the company shall therefore not be liable for the contents of any article that appears on the site.  Although the best efforts have been taken in collecting and checking the material we can not and do not warrant that the information contained in this product is complete or accurate and does not assume and hereby disclaims liability to any person for any loss of damage caused by errors or omissions.

PLEASE NOTE: From March 7, 2012 schedule data for all news stories has been extracted from OAG Schedules iNET; All GDS data is based on a live GDS update on the day of publication; Traffic data extracted from IATA BSP system for the year ending December 2011.  All information is subject to change.