QF J booking to HND changed to 16 hour layover in BNE

[justinbrett]

It used to be available across most if not all of the OW network even when it was not (opinion) a OW requirement of its members. That alone made it very beneficial to fly within a network. To me other benefits are not as compelling apart from SC/FF harvesting.

Interlining on separate PNRs used to be part of the minimum standards of oneworld.

This was changed in 2016. They were obligated to do so before then.

 

[Quickstatus]

obligated

Wayback machine

I dunno about obligated. It gradually became Alliance wide (but possibly not from the inception of OW) which made any "obligation" moot. Certainly it didnt take much for that "obligation " to fall over. Just a move from one alliance member knocked it on its head.

In any case it was great while it existed.

 

[justinbrett]

I dunno about obligated. It gradually became Alliance wide (but possibly not from the inception of OW) which made any "obligation" moot. Certainly it didnt take much for that "obligation " to fall over. Just a move from one alliance member knocked it on its head.

In any case it was great while it existed.

It was an official oneworld policy that was officially changed at the request of one or more alliance members.

Your link relates to eticketing which is not relevant to the discussion.

In fact QF was interlining bags to non-oneworld airlines with separate PNRs until 2010 (QF - No longer interline/through-check bags on separate PNR's [non oneworld]). There was a move against interlining bags from many airlines in the 2010s, including all the major US airlines.

 

[kpro]

Yes, interlining just means that the airlines have an agreement with each other to handover baggage during connections. Under what circumstances they wish to do this is up to the carrier that's operating the first flight.

We're really talking about through check-in of bags (using said interline agreement) when travelling on separate tickets and/or PNR's.

In the opposite sense, I believe it's possible to have different airlines on a single PNR and not being able to through check bags due to lack of an interline agreement?

 

[Quickstatus]

not being able to through check bags

Or when the second sector is at a different airport requiring entry into a country then exit?