Through check of luggage - QF award ticket on EK and BA

[AndyC1970]

I've secured MEL-SIN-DXB-LHR F Reward seat for June next year. First 2 legs on EK, with a 9 hour stop over in Dubai before heading to London with BA. It's a Qantas issued ticket with one PNR. I've tried to look on the net/websites - I can't tell if my luggage would be checked all the way through to London in Melbourne, or if I would have to pick it up in Dubai as EK and BA don't seem to have a current interline agreement. The Qantas website, to me, looks open to interpretation. Any guidance or help would be appreciated.

 

[encryptededdy]

My understanding is no interline agreement means it cannot be checked through. Thankfully you have 9 hours to manually handle it.

If you want to stay airside: At some airports, the transfer desk airside can attempt to get someone to grab your bag from the carousel and re-tag it, but this is not a given. You could give that a try, and, if that fails, immigrate.

I would personally immigrate anyway for 9 hours, however I'm unsure how early BA will allow you to check in bags, so you may have to find a luggage storage place depending on what you're doing for the time.

 

[Hampton Mike]

With a single itinerary on a single PNR, I would have thought when you check in at MEL your bags will be tagged through to LHR.

 

[DAC1]

With a single itinerary on a single PNR, I would have thought when you check in at MEL your bags will be tagged through to LHR.

The issue is there is no interline agreement between EK and BA so they will not be checked through to any BA flights from EK (despite being on the same PNR).

 

[dajop]

ExpertFlyer indicates that EK do not have “E-Ticket Interline Agreements” with BA, so this means EK can’t issue an e-ticket with BA sectors.

But it is listed as an airline under “MAY CHECK BAGGAGE TO”. So maybe as QF have issued the ticket it can be through checked? Would need an expert to chime in here.

 

[AndyC1970]

I've secured MEL-SIN-DXB-LHR F Reward seat for June next year. First 2 legs on EK, with a 9 hour stop over in Dubai before heading to London with BA. It's a Qantas issued ticket with one PNR. I've tried to look on the net/websites - I can't tell if my luggage would be checked all the way through to London in Melbourne, or if I would have to pick it up in Dubai as EK and BA don't seem to have a current interline agreement. The Qantas website, to me, looks open to interpretation. Any guidance or help would be appreciated.

Thanks everyone - agree expert help would be good! I may end up emailing Qantas directly. QF website itself is a bit cryptic - depending on what they mean by 'Qantas/Emirates'.

if the customers flights are all held in the same booking and are ticketed on Qantas or Qantas/Emirates and/or a oneworld airline, the baggage will be transferred between the flights and the customer will receive a boarding pass at check-in for their onward flights.

My hope is that as QF has special relations with both BA and EK this might override the lack of an interline agreement between BA and EK.

 

[tassie6]

Following on and confirming from @AFF Editor article today, we had a ticket LIN-LHR-DXB-MEL, first two segments BA then EK, and BA would not check through bags past DXB.

Ok for us though as had a short overnight layover so could deal with them fairly well, but definitely something to be aware of

 

[Scash]

Timely article @AFF Editor. We have a QFF rewards flight on July 9th LHR-DXB-SIN. First leg is BA in F to DXB and then EK in J to SIN, with a 3 hr 55 min layover in Dubai. BA arrives at T1 and EK departs T3, so based on this article we are going to need to clear passport control, collect bags, clear customs, transfer landside to T3 and then check in for our EK flight to SIN and then go back through security and passport control. Is this correct?

 

[tassie6]

Timely article @AFF Editor. We have a QFF rewards flight on July 9th LHR-DXB-SIN. First leg is BA in F to DXB and then EK in J to SIN, with a 3 hr 55 min layover in Dubai. BA arrives at T1 and EK departs T3, so based on this article we are going to need to clear passport control, collect bags, clear customs, transfer landside to T3 and then check in for our EK flight to SIN and then go back through security and passport control. Is this correct?

Yep that is correct I believe, unfortunately.

There is transfer via bus or metro between T1 and T3, we didnt use either as went for a brief stay at nearby hotel via uber

I did a quick google and Marhaba have transfer services there, not sure if they do baggage transfer for you so you dont have to go landside, it may be worth looking into

 

[Scash]

Yep that is correct I believe, unfortunately.

There is transfer via bus or metro between T1 and T3, we didnt use either as went for a brief stay at nearby hotel via uber

I did a quick google and Marhaba have transfer services there, not sure if they do baggage transfer for you so you dont have to go landside, it may be worth looking into

Thank you @tassie6. I was just researching Marhaba. Their website indicates that they will do a baggage transfer but reviews I've read (although somewhat dated) suggest otherwise. I will email Marhaba and see what they say. Cost is $160 each so not cheap. We should have plenty of time (just under 4 hours) if we need to do this ourselves but want to maximise time the lounge!

We land at 23:10 and the Metro stops at 24:00 but worst case we can get a taxi.

 

[Ansett Nostalgic]

I encountered this issue in 2019. Redeemed QF ticket which included sectors on EK to AMS and then BA onwards. The EK agent in AMS explained to me that there was some petty feud between EK and BA which had resulted in the interline agreement being terminated. When I booked the redemption on the phone the QF phone agent also warned me that there would be a through-check issue.

 

[vsteve1102]

I'm not sure if this is relevant in the thread. I have made bookings in October 2025 from PER to FCO via LHR in which the first segment (PER->LHR) is on QF W and second segment (LHR->FCO) on BA B. Could anyone tell me if my baggage will transfer onto BA flight in LHR or do I need to collect them and check in again when reached LHR?

 

[ozbeachbabe]

I'm not sure if this is relevant in the thread. I have made bookings in October 2025 from PER to FCO via LHR in which the first segment (PER->LHR) is on QF W and second segment (LHR->FCO) on BA B. Could anyone tell me if my baggage will transfer onto BA flight in LHR or do I need to collect them and check in again when reached LHR?

If it's QF9 to BAxx_ on the same booking, bags will be tagged from PER to FCO, so no need to collect them in LHR.