<BR>I bought a ticket today at ual.com, WAS - MUC roundtrip dep. March 27, ret. April 1. For $303, I got two Lufthansa nonstops (9281/9280) &quot;Operated by United Airlines Inc&quot;.<BR><BR>The web page offers a $409 option of United flights 952/953, both of them departing at exactly the same times as the LH flights.<BR><BR>What gives? Is it taxes?<BR>

Codeshare flights can be frightening.Which is what you have booked.It is a United airplane.But Lufthansa has bought &quot;x&quot; number of seats at sell as Lufthansa seats.With codeshares it varies.Sometimes the &quot;hoest&quot; airline-in this case the UA flight is actually less than the codeshare--Lufthansa.Sometimes its the other way around.Its just pricing thats all.

<BR>The ticket arrived yesterday. It shows a price of $409. No charge has been posted to my account yet (a Visa check card), and the 409 will bounce if it posts today.<BR><BR>What do you mean by &quot;frightening&quot;.<BR>

I dont mean to be alarmist.Everytime I have been on one internationally,there are scores of travellers who have not been made aware of the fact that it is in fact a &quot;codeshare&quot; flight.I.e., a United airplane but their ticket says Lufthansa.Just general confusion and not frightening to me but to others.Sorry for the porr choice of words.

Several times I have found the lowest fares on Northwest Airlines flights by purchasing tickets from Continental.<BR><BR> Keith