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Not anymore. When they moved to Amadeus they were forced by Amadeus to adopt pretty much the full suite of Amadeus products. I believe there's still a frontend ie. website difference where they maintain domestic vs international manage booking tools, but in the backend it's all Amadeus.

JL has been on Amadeus, the same system as QF, for a number of years.

You're confusing distribution agreements with PSS (passenger servicing system). Airlines generally sign distribution agreements with all major GDSes. Thus VS would have a distribution agreement with Amadeus, Sabre and Galileo/Travelport and possibly others. They would possibly also have a...

The global explorer, which has a 34000 mile limit, is the same price as the oneworld explorer, which doesn't have a mileage limit. Sometimes the underlying system throws up the global explorer fare by default instead of the oneworld explorer fare. I suspect this is the reason behind why the...

You'll need to call VS to get the GA record locator. VS is actually hosted on Deltamatic. They moved from SHARES about 10 years ago so that they could be on the same platform as DL which makes pax servicing a lot simpler.

That's probably an understatement. A lot of US agencies in particular effectively stopped selling AA unless someone specifically asked for AA.

In some cases the platinums missed out, in other cases they cleared quite late into J. Upgrades are generally done in the order of W->J, Y->J, Y->W. This maximises the number of pax who clear an upgrade by at least one cabin. Having seen on various flights, who clears first and at what...

Not always - I have seen multiple cases where a bronze in W upgraded into J before a platinum in Y upgrading to J.

NZ.

The expiry is supposed to be in sync with your P1 initially, but if your P1 lapses/expires or you remove them as the nominee, they will keep the platinum until their own anniversary month at which point it'll be reassessed on their own earnings.

Without seeing dates and itinerary I can't comment directly... but as long as the inventory is there, there's no reason why you cannot have 6 passengers in premium economy. Happy to have a look for you, please feel free to message me privately.

QF already offer fares that allow you to go PER-SIN-LHR-EU-LHR-US-LAX/DFW/JFK-SYD/BNE/MEL-PER. The catch is you need to go via the pacific in one direction, but you don't have to go that way in both directions. I know this is not the same as via Europe in both directions, but it's halfway...

There isn't. There's no standardised procedure that's listed in a reference article or anything like that.

Yes absolutely you can do this. I'm not sure how well versed the contact centre is in dealing with this scenario. As an agent, I do it all the time for separated/divorced parents, whether it's all commercial or a mix of award and commercial (eg. adult A is on award, adult B is on award, child...

Yes they have lounge access out of the NZ port before the QF service across the tasman, but not at the AU port for the onwards flight. This scenario has existed for many years, long before any NZ/QF agreement. The same happens on AA W fares ex-NZ via SYD/MEL/BNE to the US.

They can conditionally approve it subject to proof the other card is closed.

It'll depend on the point of commencement. For example, for point of commencement AU it'll probably be no fuel fines. For point of commencement ID it'll probably be ballpark 400 AUD per journey (eg. CGK-MCT-LHR).

You will need to collect and re-check. EK was the one that decided to be difficult - they did a dummy spit and tore up the BA/EK interline agreement because BA and QR got into bed with each other.

When that announcement happened along with a lot of trade support staff and corporate sales staff being let go, agents actively avoided putting pax on AA... The fact UA/DL didn't follow speaks volumes.

The QF website will only let you service QF flights (including other airline codeshares operated by QF), QF*EK, BA prime flights, QF*AA, QF*AY and I think that's about it. The ability to service BA flights on the QF website is a hangover from pre-2013 days when QF/BA had the EU joint venture...