Alaska Air as Qantas Partner - Baggage experience

[albatross710]

On the weekend I flew with Alaska Air to connect to my QF flight to LAX- BNE ALl on the one booking.

At the point of check-in for the Alaska flight, on an AS flight number the process did not appear to be very well integrated to QF. The agent did not have any visibility as to my QFF status or additional privileges. Additionally he was unable (or unwilling) to provide any priority bag tagging.

Although my ticketed allowance was for 2 x 23KG bags and I had just one piece weighing in at 25KG he was asking for some payment. I was busy looking for the baggage rules when eventually a supervisor came over and waved it through. Still didn't get any priority bag though.

The two boarding passes also print without showing status and I found myself showing my physical QFF card in order to gain LAX lounge access and LAX priority boarding.

One solution could have been to re-check the bag at LAX but lugging the bag from T6 to TBIT was less appealing than waitin gin BNE.

I did find the Alaska experience for boarding, inflight and disembarking all very good.

The other internal leg of my trip was with AA which went very smoothly.

Anyone got any tips on connecting from Alaska Air to QF?

 

[nickykim]

I had the opposite experience. Flew back from Ketchikan after a week on Prince of Wales Island, to LAX, then QF to MEL. Had bought the Alaska Air tickets and Qantas tickets separately. I was checked in all the way back to Melbourne at the desk. Although they seemed pretty well set up to send people back across the world, especially impressed given the small size of the airport.