Using QF frequent flyer points to purchase American Airlines flights- does it include baggage?

[Aitchgeye]

I have booked a flight within the US through the Qantas site, and paying for the flights with my points.

On the QF site, it claims that the QF flights include checked baggage/luggage. However, on the manage my bookings it shows 0 pieces of checked luggage. As the flights are not QF, but with an affiliated airline then do we need to pay at checkin?

Also, we need to change planes to get to the destination (ie LAX to Indianapolis to Boston) do you think they will check the baggage through to the final destination?

Thanks heaps for your response.

Just a newbie with paying with points.

Helen

 

[p--and--t]

I’ve flown to from and thru murica several times on QF CR tickets as a non-statused passenger and never had an issue, luggage always included. Maybe because there was always a OWi sector on the ticket??

 

[Bemba]

No - frustratingly, the Qantas indicates checked baggage is included, but AA (and AS) doesn't actually include any.

I intend to get up to Silver status which gets one checked bag through being Oneworld ruby.

Also, if you don't want to call QF, you can get your AA PNR by going to Malaysia Airlines' site, going to Manage My Booking and plugging in the QF PNR, then looking for "listRecordLocator" in the page source.

Post automatically merged: Sep 25, 2023

Errr... no it doesn't.

Thanks for the Malaysia Airlines tip - it works!

 

[DejaBrew]

Thanks for the Malaysia Airlines tip - it works!

Welcome aboard AFF @Bemba