Through check of luggage - QF award ticket on EK and BA

[AndyC1970]

I've secured MEL-SIN-DXB-LHR F Reward seat for June next year. First 2 legs on EK, with a 9 hour stop over in Dubai before heading to London with BA. It's a Qantas issued ticket with one PNR. I've tried to look on the net/websites - I can't tell if my luggage would be checked all the way through to London in Melbourne, or if I would have to pick it up in Dubai as EK and BA don't seem to have a current interline agreement. The Qantas website, to me, looks open to interpretation. Any guidance or help would be appreciated.

 

[encryptededdy]

My understanding is no interline agreement means it cannot be checked through. Thankfully you have 9 hours to manually handle it.

If you want to stay airside: At some airports, the transfer desk airside can attempt to get someone to grab your bag from the carousel and re-tag it, but this is not a given. You could give that a try, and, if that fails, immigrate.

I would personally immigrate anyway for 9 hours, however I'm unsure how early BA will allow you to check in bags, so you may have to find a luggage storage place depending on what you're doing for the time.

 

[Hampton Mike]

With a single itinerary on a single PNR, I would have thought when you check in at MEL your bags will be tagged through to LHR.

 

[DAC1]

With a single itinerary on a single PNR, I would have thought when you check in at MEL your bags will be tagged through to LHR.

The issue is there is no interline agreement between EK and BA so they will not be checked through to any BA flights from EK (despite being on the same PNR).

 

[dajop]

ExpertFlyer indicates that EK do not have “E-Ticket Interline Agreements” with BA, so this means EK can’t issue an e-ticket with BA sectors.

But it is listed as an airline under “MAY CHECK BAGGAGE TO”. So maybe as QF have issued the ticket it can be through checked? Would need an expert to chime in here.

 

[AndyC1970]

I've secured MEL-SIN-DXB-LHR F Reward seat for June next year. First 2 legs on EK, with a 9 hour stop over in Dubai before heading to London with BA. It's a Qantas issued ticket with one PNR. I've tried to look on the net/websites - I can't tell if my luggage would be checked all the way through to London in Melbourne, or if I would have to pick it up in Dubai as EK and BA don't seem to have a current interline agreement. The Qantas website, to me, looks open to interpretation. Any guidance or help would be appreciated.

Thanks everyone - agree expert help would be good! I may end up emailing Qantas directly. QF website itself is a bit cryptic - depending on what they mean by 'Qantas/Emirates'.

if the customers flights are all held in the same booking and are ticketed on Qantas or Qantas/Emirates and/or a oneworld airline, the baggage will be transferred between the flights and the customer will receive a boarding pass at check-in for their onward flights.

My hope is that as QF has special relations with both BA and EK this might override the lack of an interline agreement between BA and EK.