FF booking not codeshare not Qantas > no lounge!

[sbunter]

In my ignorance I had booked Australia - UK using FF points through the Qantas website, only to discover on the day that the flight was not codeshare but Emirates, therefore I was unable to use my carefully collected lounge tickets. On messaging via Facebook I was told this was standard Hard lesson learnt

 

[levelnine]

Welcome to AFF.

Sorry to hear about your disappointment. Sometimes we learn these lessons the hard way unfortunately.

 

[NZflygirl]

Click on the details of the flight it will tell you if it's operated by qantas or emirates

 

[greyyy]

Click on the details of the flight it will tell you if it's operated by qantas or emirates

Possessing a ticket with a QF (or various Jetstar) flight number is what you're looking for for lounge eligibility, rather than who operates the flight.

 

[thebmw]

Possessing a ticket with a QF (or various Jetstar) flight number is what you're looking for for lounge eligibility, rather than who operates the flight.

And in particular, award flights are (almost?) never on the codeshare.

 

[JohnK]

If you purchase an EK flight on the QF website you will more than likely be on a QF codeshare.

If you book an EK reward flight on the QF website you will be on an EK flight.

I don't see why lounge access should be excluded for second option. Very poor.

 

[mannej]

If you purchase an EK flight on the QF website you will more than likely be on a QF codeshare.

If you book an EK reward flight on the QF website you will be on an EK flight.

I don't see why lounge access should be excluded for second option. Very poor.

Considering that the OP is talking about the Lounge Passes that one may pick up through a credit card or a Buyer/seller page, by placing this constraint isn't it one small measure that may stop devaluing the lounge experience for those with status?

 

[JohnK]

Considering that the OP is talking about the Lounge Passes that one may pick up through a credit card or a Buyer/seller page, by placing this constraint isn't it one small measure that may stop devaluing the lounge experience for those with status?

I'm not sure I agree. I was giving one example. There are others.

MEL-SIN, SYD-BKK and BNE-SIN have both a QF flight and EK flight. Book a QF flight and use lounge pass. Book an EK flight and no lounge access. Why? QF and EK have a partnership agreement in place. Similar to a JSA? QF gets reasonable commission from selling EK flights on their website. Providing lounge access using lounge passes is not an unreasonable expectation.

 

[mannej]

I'm not sure I agree. I was giving one example. There are others.

MEL-SIN, SYD-BKK and BNE-SIN have both a QF flight and EK flight. Book a QF flight and use lounge pass. Book an EK flight and no lounge access. Why? QF and EK have a partnership agreement in place. Similar to a JSA? QF gets reasonable commission from selling EK flights on their website. Providing lounge access using lounge passes is not an unreasonable expectation.

The passes label the eligibility criteria on them, and are quite specific about the flight number requirement.

QP members have a gripe here with the constant erosion of benefits, not so much those who pick up these single use passes.