Border Lines

A roundup of North American news:

By Staff -- Logistics Management, 3/1/1999

* The United States and Mexico have signed an agreement that liberalizes aviation services between the two neighbors. The agreement greatly expands code-sharing--a marketing arrangement in which one carrier places its own flight number on another carrier's flight--between U.S. and Mexican airlines. Under the agreement, code-sharing may be used between any U.S. and any Mexican point. In addition to the two carriers from each country that now may provide direct service, four additional carriers from each country may code-share with the direct-service carriers. Canada and Mexico recently reached a similar agreement, under which both Air Canada and Canadian Airlines may code-share with Mexican airlines or with airlines of a third country on flights to Mexico. The Canada-Mexico pact places no restrictions on origin-destination pairs in those two countries.