Two regional airlines, one in Europe and one in Canada, have signed code-share agreements with trans-Atlantic carriers, giving passengers on all four more options for connecting journeys.
Code-share agreements allow passengers (and their baggage) to transition smoothly from one carrier to another, effectively extending the networks of the two airlines.
Delta and Air Baltic’s agreement will put Delta flight numbers on 20 or so of Air Baltic’s connections between European cities Delta flies to and Air Baltic’s hubs at Riga, Tallinn and Vilnius, the capitals of the Baltic nations of Latvia, Estonia and Lithuania. For now at least Air Baltic won’t be putting its numbers on any Delta flights.
The other new linkup connects two Canadian carriers, Air Transat and Porter. Air Transat flies out of five major Canadian cities; most of its flights are to warm-weather Caribbean and South and Central America in the winter and to Europe in the summer. Porter, which until recently operated only turbo-prop services between Toronto and destinations near Toronto and the northeast U.S. has more recently added jet service to a number of new cities across Canada.
