No priority seating for Qantas Platinum on Emirates Flights code shared with Qantas

[CorporateFlyerMEL]

I have never had an issue selecting preferred seating on EK long haul or short haul. TA books as QF flights (if available) or EK on non-code share with QF FF number. Itinerary from TA has QF and EK booking ref. Using EK booking ref access booking on EK app and you can select seats and meal preferences. Note that if your itinerary includes actual QF metal flights, you need to access the QF booking through the app and on seat selection, skip through the EK metal flights and select for the QF metal flights...

 

[chooms]

As someone who’s just experienced another partnership in action, it seems like this is a bit of a communications mess from QF and EK.

Recently I booked and travelled LAX-LHR- MUC with AA that included a codeshare flight with AA’s partner, BA, between LHR-MUC.

Logging into my booking on the AA website and even selecting seats, there are clear messages that I’d have to access my booking via BA’s website to select seats on that codeshare flight.

They even displayed the PNR for BA as this was different to AA. And provided a link.

Couldn’t have been more clearer.

 

[kpro]

Logging into my booking on the AA website and even selecting seats, there are clear messages that I’d have to access my booking via BA’s website to select seats on that codeshare flight.

They even displayed the PNR for BA as this was different to AA. And provided a link.

Couldn’t have been more clearer.

QF do this with BA too. Perhaps it's something to do with integrating with EK systems? Though you'd think given the seemingly close nature of the relationship, they'd have gotten any issues resolved by this point.

 

[CorporateFlyerMEL]

Qantas does the same with JQ flights, one click and you are in manage booking on the JQ website

 

[PineappleSkip]

flying whY with upgrading not permitted

I think I'm glad I didn't win.

When making bookings direct with EK my QF status always appeared as soon as I entered my FF number, so the systems do talk to some extent. Otherwise my experience has been similar to others, use the EK website to select seats. I have had seats arbitrarily changed at boarding, but that was in the good old days when the scanner played the delightful op-up buzzer and I got handed my F boarding pass.