“Your flight is not guaranteed to be on one of these airlines. In addition, your flight may be booked on an affiliate partner of a participating Priceline airline (‘codeshare’) where one airline tickets the flight and enters into a contract of carriage with the customer, but another airline operates it”. what does it mean?
I think it meanss that your going on a diffrent place like one plane carrys u and rhe other on take your baggages to the place u want I guess
Codeshare flights and agreements among airlines are very common nowadays. Airlines form into alliances in order to expand the number of destinations they can offer to customers and not having to invest the money and work into actually operating new routes. Say if airline no. 1 only flies from point A to B, and airline no. 2 only B to C, yet you went to airline 1 wanting to book from point A to C, then you would be issued a ticket from airline no. 1, but after flying on airline 1 from A-B, you’d be switched to a codeshare flight operated by airline no. 2 from B-C even though you paid airline 1 for it.
It means you may have bought your ticket from one airline, but the flight could be on another airline.
1. Most airlines in the world have cross-ticketing agreements. If you have several different flights, especially in different countries, one airline can issue the tickets for all of the airlines you may have to use.
2. Many of the world’s major airlines have codesharing agreements in place with other airlines, especially if they are in the same alliance (OneWorld, Star Alliance, SkyTeam, etc.). So for example, you may have a flight United 8110 which is actually Lufthansa 450, operated by Lufthansa(I’m just making these up, so don’t hold me to it). The same flight can have several different codeshare flight numbers.
3. You can have combinations of 1 and 2. I once had a ticket issued by Lufthansa with a UA flight number operated by Lufthansa. Silly, but true.
They warn you of this because when airlines started codesharing, people got upset when they found out they were flying a different airline than they thought. It’s in your best interest to know which airline is actually operating the flight – in most cases you have to check in with them, not with the airline that issued the ticket or whose flight number shows on the itinerary.
Both answerers have hit the nail on the head with regards to codeshare flights.
From reading your question I see that you are wondering what that text means… It basically means that if you are bidding on a ticket on Priceline the ticket will be on that flight stated, but that Priceline have no way of confirming what airline will operate the actual flight.