Adding infant to partner award booking

[Nizar]

Hi guys,

If i purchase AA miles to book QF PER-MEL in J class for my wife and I, how do I add my son (about six months at planned time of travel) to the booking ?

I'm guessing I need to call QF ? Any idea if there's any charge involved ?
I heard with QF for revenue domestic fares infants under 2 years old fly for free ?

Cheers

 

[BriarFlyer]

Infants are free with QF but if you book with AA you would need to add your infant to that ticket, surely?

 

[Nizar]

Infants are free with QF but if you book with AA you would need to add your infant to that ticket, surely?

Yeah i understand that but my question was do I add my son to the ticket at the time of booking with AA or do I call QF after ticketing to add him in later ?

If i can do it either way, will the AA method add additional charges (whether in miles or dollars) whereas perhaps by calling QF I can get the infant added with no charge ?

 

[Dr_Goz]

I have just done a few additions of an infant to existing bookings.

My experience is it doesn't matter who the operating airline is, you need to contact the the airline that ticketed your booking int he first place to add the infant.

Your example would be AA would need to add it, Qantas would refer you back to them I would assume.

 

[BriarFlyer]

AA doesn't charge infants for domestic travel but I don't know if their definition of "domestic" means within-America or on-AA or what. Otherwise it's 10% of adult ticket on international flights.

 

[JohnK]

My experience is it doesn't matter who the operating airline is, you need to contact the the airline that ticketed your booking int he first place to add the infant.

Your example would be AA would need to add it, Qantas would refer you back to them I would assume.

Not always true. I booked a UA Mileage Plus award for wife and myself and all flights on TG. I had to call TG to add my then 21 month old to award booking and pay 10% surcharge on revenue airfare.

 

[appaz]

I'm in the same boat as the OP

AA could add the infant to the ticket but couldn't issue the ticket - said to call Qantas

another booking via Alaskan - they couldn't do anything and said to call Qantas

Qantas: completely unable to assist via their SMS system, if I call and wait on hold for 1 hour+ need to know who's responsibility it is. Surely Qantas can just issue an infant ticket?

 

[blackcat20]

I don't think Infants require a ticket for domestic travel on QF.

On domestic services, lap infants under the age of two can travel on their parent's tickets. For international services, infants must have their own ticket. All infants booked with a seat must have their own ticket.

 

[appaz]

I don't think Infants require a ticket for domestic travel on QF.

good to know! The Alaskan award flights are domestic - so should be fine.

Flying on an AA ticket BNE-HKG with QF (I can see AA have added my daughter when I log into my QFF account, I'll just triple check with QF whether that means a ticket has been issued or not). Yet to pay AA or QF anything for this flight - should it be free or 10% of the adult fare?

 

[JohnK]

Qantas: completely unable to assist via their SMS system, if I call and wait on hold for 1 hour+ need to know who's responsibility it is. Surely Qantas can just issue an infant ticket?

Qantas can issue the infant ticket. Free of charge on domestic flights.

You still need an infant booking and it is linked to your booking. This can be done over the phone or at the airport the day you fly but the only risk there is if the flight has reached the maximum infants allowed on flight which may well be 6 infants per flight.

I did this many times with daughter on Qantas and Virgin as most travel was last minute.

For international flights with Qantas you need to pay some genuine taxes around $60 from memory. With TG it is 10% of the revenue airfare and a SYD-BKK return in business and First was around $1100 which I feel was steep.