BA starts codeshare with American Airlines this weekend

British Airways PLC said the first transatlantic codeshare flights with American Airlines commence sales this weekend.

Daily flights from Manchester to New York and Chicago will now carry both airlines' flight codes.

Also, new codeshare destinations added to the BA network will be Portland, Oregon; Fort Lauderdale, Florida; Greenville, South Carolina and Madison, Wisconsin.

The codeshare will also provide additional frequencies to six other destinations including Denver, Atlanta and St Louis.

American Airlines places its flight code on selected BA services from London Gatwick including Pristina.

American will also be placing its code on BA long haul services to Nairobi.

The US Department of Transportation gave approval in May last year to the code-sharing application made by the two airlines to place each other's codes on services operated between the UK regions and US.