Strategy to get "Early" JQ check-in for International

[medhead]

re: Strategy to get "Early" JQ check-in for International

Is it possible to reprint JQi BPs after OLCI from the dom terminal to bypass the int lines? (ie in MEL where it is a "short" walk away)
Or are the dom lines often much longer than the int ones meaning you may as well just go to the int terminal in the first place...?

The trick is to find someone who will do the reprint for you. The main strategy is to say "I've checked in but need a BP reprint". I would say in general anywhere (QF-wise) that is used to handling JQ and QF flights will be able to help. So people report good success in this at the QP in T2 SYD. I'm not sure about similar options in MEL.

 

[ozbeachbabe]

re: Strategy to get "Early" JQ check-in for International

My partner and I are flying MEL-xSYD-DPS on Wednesday, with a deliberate ~5 hour transit in SYD so we can enjoy lots of F Lounge time (only second time for me, and first time for her!). MEL-SYD is on QF (JASA) and SYD-DPS is on JQ.

Each segment is on separate a PNR, but QF have "linked" the two via an information segment on the QF booking (JQ flight shows up if I manage the QF booking online). We will be checking bags. And in case it complicates things any, the SYD-DPS was originally Y but has been upgraded to "J" this week via an "upgrade for $199" offer from JQ.

A couple of questions around this:

1) From info in this thread and on the JQ website it is clear that QFd and JQi will interline our bags if both flights are on the same PNR. Will they still interline our bags with the two flights on different PNRs?

2) Assuming yes to #1, will QF print both our QF and JQ BPs when we checkin in MEL (i.e. do you just get both BPs immediately as standard practice in our situation)? Or will we just receive our QF BPs, and have to resort to some of the strategies suggested in this thread to get the JQi ones early?

Thanks.

1) Yes. In MEL even if you have separate QF & JQ pnrs doesn't matter. Just show your JQi itinerary to the QF dom checkin people so they can add the flights in to Altea. I realise you have advised res of the JQ flight numbers & they now appear in your Amadeus pnr as passive segments but the JQ flights will not automatically show in the check in system - they will still need to be added in by the CSA on checkin.

2) Whether or not you get both boarding passes depends on whether the QF & JQ checkin systems talk to each other. Generally a msg will generate to JQ and you will actually be checked in by JQ system but sometimes the msg does not generate from JQback to QF in order to print out the JQ boarding pass.

Either way your bags will still be through checked to DPS. If the JQi boarding pass hasn't printed then I would go and ask the JQ service desk at MEL domestic. If they won't do it, see if there are any JQi people on duty at MEL intl.

 

[LiamR]

re: Strategy to get "Early" JQ check-in for International

Is it possible to reprint JQi BPs after OLCI from the dom terminal to bypass the int lines? (ie in MEL where it is a "short" walk away)
Or are the dom lines often much longer than the int ones meaning you may as well just go to the int terminal in the first place...?

Yes it can be done but staff don't want to, as the BPs they use at DOM wont' scan at the gates for INT flights. It'll get you past immigration but there's a slim chance the JQ folks in T1 will print it out for you, I've tried.

 

[11sjw]

re: Strategy to get "Early" JQ check-in for International

When checking in for my JQi SYD-HNL a couple of weeks ago we arrived just before the 3 hour mark. The lady at the JQi check in desk said she wouldn't be able to check us in as there would be no one to receive our checked in luggage. Once we pointed out we were travelling Carry-on Only she checked us in straight away and we were up to the 1st Lounge for some QF love. Perhaps carry on only is the solution.

 

[N860CR]

re: Strategy to get "Early" JQ check-in for International

Being dragged right out to T-3 hours for checkin today. Not even a person at the service desk yet to hit up for a reprint.

 

[serfty]

re: Strategy to get "Early" JQ check-in for International

Being dragged right out to T-3 hours for checkin today. Not even a person at the service desk yet to hit up for a reprint.

Did you try the domestic QP or the JL?

 

[N860CR]

re: Strategy to get "Early" JQ check-in for International

Nah didn't make it to the airport until 1130 so it wasn't worth the trip over. Still haven't openned here, staff are just milling at the counters

 

[wafliron]

re: Strategy to get "Early" JQ check-in for International

1) Yes. In MEL even if you have separate QF & JQ pnrs doesn't matter. Just show your JQi itinerary to the QF dom checkin people so they can add the flights in to Altea. I realise you have advised res of the JQ flight numbers & they now appear in your Amadeus pnr as passive segments but the JQ flights will not automatically show in the check in system - they will still need to be added in by the CSA on checkin.

2) Whether or not you get both boarding passes depends on whether the QF & JQ checkin systems talk to each other. Generally a msg will generate to JQ and you will actually be checked in by JQ system but sometimes the msg does not generate from JQback to QF in order to print out the JQ boarding pass.

Either way your bags will still be through checked to DPS. If the JQi boarding pass hasn't printed then I would go and ask the JQ service desk at MEL domestic. If they won't do it, see if there are any JQi people on duty at MEL intl.

Thanks for the advice ozbeachbabe, sincerely appreciated. Glad to hear the bags are definitely OK, and hopefully we'll be able to get our BPs early as well.

 

[LiamR]

re: Strategy to get "Early" JQ check-in for International

Being dragged right out to T-3 hours for checkin today. Not even a person at the service desk yet to hit up for a reprint.

I got staff at the service desk to reprint mine 47hrs out at MEL, so it can certainly be done. For both JQ36 and 35 too!

 

[greenfish]

re: Strategy to get "Early" JQ check-in for International

I got staff at the service desk to reprint mine 47hrs out at MEL, so it can certainly be done. For both JQ36 and 35 too!

Crikey that's excellent. Did they do the "D" sticker too? Which service desk was this?

 

[penegal]

re: Strategy to get "Early" JQ check-in for International

I got staff at the service desk to reprint mine 47hrs out at MEL, so it can certainly be done. For both JQ36 and 35 too!

I think we all know that this may be difficult for members of the general public to replicate.

 

[LiamR]

re: Strategy to get "Early" JQ check-in for International

Crikey that's excellent. Did they do the "D" sticker too? Which service desk was this?

Jetstar were doing checkin for JQ36 for that day, I walked up to the checkin lane signed "Service Desk" explained what I wanted, insisted it could be done, and after huffing and puffing they finally did it.

D Stickers are hiding in the Qantas F Checkin, if they don't have any there they will go talk to the QF Service Desk and make them magically appear.

I think we all know that this may be difficult for members of the general public to replicate.

Hey, it's not my fault they mistook me as a CASA Employee.

 

[Danger]

re: Strategy to get "Early" JQ check-in for International

Hey, it's not my fault they mistook me as a CASA Employee.

The things 200 baht can get you in Bangkok!

 

[penegal]

re: Strategy to get "Early" JQ check-in for International

Hey, it's not my fault they mistook me as a CASA Employee.

He? Oh, I thought it was a she?

Either way, the D stickers are there, it's just a case of getting access to them.



As a side note JQ36's early departure makes checking-in "early" for JQ7 a complete sinch*.

*I have only every done this with HCO

 

[LiamR]

re: Strategy to get "Early" JQ check-in for International

The things 200 baht can get you in Bangkok!

Or $200 from CASA

 

[jazza1971]

re: Strategy to get "Early" JQ check-in for International

Thought I'd update this thread as to what I did the other week for a JQ35 flight. Had done the web check thingy on the JQ website, and went to the T2 QP and the lovely ladies there kindly printed me a boarding pass, but they had run out of D Stickers. They directed me to get one from the transfer desk in T3 which was ok cause I wanted to use the T1 bus anyway. Well the girl on the transfer desk wasn't so impressed, why have the T2 QP girls sent you here to get a D Sticker...I explained they are out, and I have no checked baggage, I just want to get through customs to use the lounge.....bit of huffing and puffing and handing over of my driver's licence and in my hands one boarding pass with D sticker! Bit of muckign about but I was actually walking into the lounge right on the three hour check in point.

 

[zachary.august]

re: Strategy to get "Early" JQ check-in for International

Once when I travelled JQ from SYD QF F Check In was able to check me in 4.5 hours prior to my flight :O. They said that when there is a QF flight number they can check you in. I only had carry on

 

[ozbeachbabe]

re: Strategy to get "Early" JQ check-in for International

Once when I travelled JQ from SYD QF F Check In was able to check me in 4.5 hours prior to my flight :O. They said that when there is a QF flight number they can check you in. I only had carry on

I wonder if they mean if the JQ flight also has a QF codeshare flight also.

I'm guessing that QF in SYD have the contract to do the JQ checkin & have the appropriate sign ons to access JQ's Navitaire system as the QF Altea system cannot access JQ flights.

 

[TheInsider]

re: Strategy to get "Early" JQ check-in for International

I wonder if they mean if the JQ flight also has a QF codeshare flight also.

I'm guessing that QF in SYD have the contract to do the JQ checkin & have the appropriate sign ons to access JQ's Navitaire system as the QF Altea system cannot access JQ flights.

Aerocare have JQ in SYD, have had so for quite a while now too.

 

[ozbeachbabe]

re: Strategy to get "Early" JQ check-in for International

Aerocare have JQ in SYD, have had so for quite a while now too.

So it's Aerocare that are happy to issue JQ boarding passes more than 3 hours ahead as long as no checked baggage?