The Qantas Newbie Questions Thread

[Vex_03]

I booked a domestic US flight with QFF points, according to the Qantas manage booking I have no way to purchase baggage except at the airport, is this accurate? I cant seem to log into the American Airlines site with the ticket number and Qantas don't give a partner airline booking number.

 

[SYD]

I booked a domestic US flight with QFF points, according to the Qantas manage booking I have no way to purchase baggage except at the airport, is this accurate? I cant seem to log into the American Airlines site with the ticket number and Qantas don't give a partner airline booking number.

You could try calling QF and asking for the AA PNR and see what you can do on the AA website/app.

Oh, one of those (AA website or app - sorry, I’ve forgotten which one), should recognise the QF eTicket number.

Plan C. Enter the QF booking reference into BA.com and go through to select seats. You should get the AA PNR during that process.

 

[Vex_03]

You could try calling QF and asking for the AA PNR and see what you can do on the AA website/app.

Oh, one of those (AA website or app - sorry, I’ve forgotten which one), should recognise the QF eTicket number.

Plan C. Enter the QF booking reference into BA.com and go through to select seats. You should get the AA PNR during that process.

Thanks, It worked going through BA.

 

[SYD]

Thanks, It worked going through BA.

Cool. Out of curiosity what does the AA website offer you RE bags?

 

[patrickw]

More of a curiosity question here;

I booked a SYD > MEL > SYD > HND CR flight via the multi-city tool. All on a one-way PNR.

In the Qantas app, SYD (0700HRS)> MEL shows up as one trip.
MEL (1700HRS) > SYD (2055HRS) > HND shows up as a separate trip.

Result is I have 2 check-in times for this PNR - I was hoping for one to get early seat selection on SYD>HND.

Question: How does Qantas determine where to "split" this PNR? Long layover in MEL? How I entered it into the multi-city tool?

FWIW I searched the following in the multi-city tool.
#1: SYD>MEL
#2: MEL > HND (same day as #1)

TIA for the answer, and cheers as always to this community for the wealth of knowledge it has provided me.

 

[Flyfrequently]

Update:
Did some random flight searches for August, September and October and all the early afternoon flights are now Y only and some of the late afternoon flights are also.

Called Sydney Bangkok Airways number and she confirmed our flight # ex USM is all economy now and it may be all flights are going that way (they are from BKK-USM)

So decided not worth even trying to call QF at present to change, as I half expect our SIN-USM will get downgraded also

She did say, we should get a refund from Qantas - we wait patiently...

Update:
Called QFF today.
Agent said to wait until travel completed as aircraft  may change back to include business class (fair point but unlikely?)

After completion of travel to call back for reimbursement of price difference, could not indicate what this would be.