Qantas / Emirates tie up (Partnership inc. Codeshare, Status)

[cmon0005]

About an hour ago.

They must email them out in priority order Plat's ahead of Gold's

 

[Newk]

I got a similar email just over an hour ago. AND the Emirates flight that I want to take in June from Adelaide now comes up on the Qantas site as a Qantas flight operated by Emirates. I need to explore this more but I reckon this is fantastic for our travel plans

 

[Pushka]

Classic. I just received that email but as a Skywards member where I have no status (but am flying J class with Emirates in July). Nothing from Qantas yet, where I'm silver and nothing from Qantas to husband who is gold.

 

[blackcat20]

They must email them out in priority order Plat's ahead of Gold's

Got mine

 

[anat0l]

QF Platinum member here but no communiqué yet received.

That all said, all the information is pretty much here and on miscellaneous channels (e.g. Twitter and AusBT), so email receiving care factor right now is minus 0.01.

 

[yohy?!]

Just got a skywards email on the partnership.... The link to the EK FAQs indicates that skyward tier miles will be earnt on EK coded QF operated flights

As an Emirates Skywards member you will be able to earn Skywards Miles and tier Miles as per the programme rules on EK-marketed (EK flight number), Qantas-operated flights. This includes Qantas domestic flights that are part of a continuous international journey with Emirates or Qantas.

 

[pagingjoan]

Just got a skywards email on the partnership.... The link to the EK FAQs indicates that skyward tier miles will be earnt on EK coded QF operated flights

My email from Skywards says:
<With this partnership you can earn Emirates Skywards Miles on all Qantas international and connecting domestic flights and redeem them for any Emirates or Qantas flight.>
Also, in the FAQ link:
<As an Emirates Skywards member you will be able to redeem your Skywards Miles on all Qantas-marketed (QF flight number) and operated domestic and international flights. Rewards will be available soon and more information will be forthcoming shortly.> (Bolding mine.)
Stay tuned, seems to be the go?

 

[Awesom Andy]

No email from Qantas, despite being WP. However, they probably didn't want to remind me what they did to SIN...

 

[yuppieshrink]

The email says you can redeem, Ive checked all the combos on expert flyer for my travel in June, no award availability on QF, heaps on EK......but no award seats released to QF flyers on EK flights yet.

 

[PineappleSkip]

Dear Red Roo (are you in hiding?)

Yes I too got the email. I thought, why not, I will check out your Y+ fares and see if they've stepped off ridiculous.

I found these 'Premium Economy Sale' fares when I searched...



But when I checked out the 'Sale' options, I found this, everywhere


Yes indeed. Every 'sale' option I found, on every day I searched, every sector, both ways, was actually in Y :shock::shock::evil:. Are you kidding me or what?

And can I point out, dearest Red Roo, that such a sale is not pukka. Have you not heard of 'bait and switch'? Its all about an attractive, but actually unavailable offer for a product, with the aim of luring people in and telling them when lured that they actually have to pay a lot more for the product advertised. You'll find plenty of explanation of this on the ACCC website, because it's illegal, a cameo for you here...

The ‘bait’ is the especially attractive offer designed to lure customers to a business. When they arrive, the bait is unavailable and the customer is encouraged to buy other, more expensive goods. That’s the ‘switch’. The bait might have been a single item sold to the first person or it might not have been a genuine offer at all.[/QUOTE]

The only out I can find for you is that the 'sale' offer is not at all attractive in the first place. The fares are still twice what BA are asking for SYD-LHR in real Y+?

Cheers skip

 

[Sprucegoose]

Prem Y fates are also on sale for $1600

 

[anat0l]

Dear Red Roo (are you in hiding?)

Yes I too got the email. I thought, why not, I will check out your Y+ fares and see if they've stepped off ridiculous...

.....


Cheers skip

I knew PE was going to be a chestnut. I really don't know how QF were going to handle this, but looks like it isn't a good start.

I have a sneaking suspicion that QF have not taken into account that the fare classes they use for QF PE do not map to PE seats when you fly on EK aircraft. The booking engine has not been configured properly, so when it sees a, e.g. W, fare code (I assume this is a PE fare class), it assumes this is PE. It doesn't help that the flight no has QF in it; the engine hasn't been smart enough to know which airline is operating the flight (at search time; obviously once the engine processes the search results to be presented to the user, it does this dumbly without analysing if anything is wrong).

This reminds me of the AA stuff up some time ago where AA was selling dirt cheap QF operated AA codehsare flights in First because AA forgot to modify their booking engine as QF had remapped R class from First to Premium Economy.

I'd be firing off an email to QF immediately; don't wait for our rep to pick up the ball. (Not saying our resident rep is lousy, but this is serious enough it should be actively sent over now).

 

[anat0l]

Prem Y fates are also on sale for $1600

That's cheaper than almost all Economy fares. Are you nuts?

 

[Anna]

I got a similar email just over an hour ago. AND the Emirates flight that I want to take in June from Adelaide now comes up on the Qantas site as a Qantas flight operated by Emirates. I need to explore this more but I reckon this is fantastic for our travel plans

I'm not sure if you're talking about a paid flight or an award, but if paid then I suggest you check the EK website price before deciding to book the QF code share. When I looked yesterday for J prices on this route in late August, the EK website price was $2K less than QF for the exact same flights.

 

[ozmille]

With the QF codeshares now in place I am thinking about changing my QF1 from DXB to LHR after our stop over in August to an EK day flight instead of the nightly QF1 departure time, seems a lot more comfortable

 

[blackcat20]

I'm not sure if you're talking about a paid flight or an award, but if paid then I suggest you check the EK website price before deciding to book the QF code share. When I looked yesterday for J prices on this route in late August, the EK website price was $2K less than QF for the exact same flights.

Prices seem to be all over the place at the moment; in 24 hours a flight I wanted went from $1700 to $2900 then down to $1800...

 

[Origin]

Will Qantas honour a cheap flight booked if they made a mistake or do they just say sorry, please pay us another $1000 or whatever? What happens in reverse if some poor soul pays over the odds?

 

[Alanslegal]

Sorry for not following closely but can one use QF points to book EK metal now?

 

[moa999]

Have seen EK metal (both QF codeshare and EK) appearing on AnySeat searches, but not on Classic.

 

[markis10]

Will Qantas honour a cheap flight booked if they made a mistake or do they just say sorry, plase pay us another $1000 or whatever. What happens in reverse if some poor soul pays over the odds?

In the past Qantas have honored any fares booked, including some transcon $25 ones