Dropping the last sector ... fronting up to T1 transfer with another booking to BNE

[amaroo]

Looking to book JFK-SYD-ADL ... but don't want the ADL bit. Can I turn up at the TI>T3 transfer counter and use a booking for SYD-BNE?

Reason: It's the only (direct) J award flight I can find from USA to SYD.

 

[MEL_Traveller]

Re: Dropping the last sector ... fronting up to T1 transfer with another booking to B

Looking to book JFK-SYD-ADL ... but don't want the ADL bit. Can I turn up at the TI>T3 transfer counter and use a booking for SYD-BNE?

Reason: It's the only (direct) J award flight I can find from USA to SYD.

It's married the segment to ADL? Can you call and ask them to hook you up to BNE instead of ADL?

 

[JessicaTam]

Re: Dropping the last sector ... fronting up to T1 transfer with another booking to B

Looking to book JFK-SYD-ADL ... but don't want the ADL bit. Can I turn up at the TI>T3 transfer counter and use a booking for SYD-BNE?

Reason: It's the only (direct) J award flight I can find from USA to SYD.

Don't see why not.

"I had to change my flight to go to an urgent meeting in BNE - damn bosses"!

 

[amaroo]

Re: Dropping the last sector ... fronting up to T1 transfer with another booking to B

I believe they are, can't see/book JFK-SYD without ADL. Doesn't show with any other East OZ routing.

I should hit WP tomorrow so will call when the status is higher.

 

[MEL_Traveller]

Re: Dropping the last sector ... fronting up to T1 transfer with another booking to B

I believe they are, can't see/book JFK-SYD without ADL. Doesn't show with any other East OZ routing.

I should hit WP tomorrow so will call when the status is higher.

I'd secure the seat while you can! Work out changes later (although may come with a fee )

 

[opusman]

Re: Dropping the last sector ... fronting up to T1 transfer with another booking to B

There are flights from ADL to BNE you know

 

[amaroo]

Re: Dropping the last sector ... fronting up to T1 transfer with another booking to B

There are flights from ADL to BNE you know

My days of (MASA induced) frivolous flying are over .... and, it's ADL

 

[ozbeachbabe]

Re: Dropping the last sector ... fronting up to T1 transfer with another booking to B

It's married the segment to ADL? Can you call and ask them to hook you up to BNE instead of ADL?

Don't see why not.

"I had to change my flight to go to an urgent meeting in BNE - damn bosses"!

Don't ring up as it will only confuse issues. Even if they did add a passive segment SYD/BNE into your JFK/xSYD/ADL booking, the SYD/BNE flight does not generate to Altea so it's not like the CSA in JFK will see it anyway. Don't tell them at JFK to add the oncarriage in SYD/BNE because if they add it in, the SYD/ADL flight will still show & the CSA may not know how to segment relate the checkin in order to select the JFK/SYD and SYD/BNE flights only and omitting the SYD/ADL.

Using the KISS principle, just tell the agent in JFK you're on QF12 to SYD and you only want to be checked in as far as SYD as your plans have changed. Then after clearing customs on arrival in SYD go to the domestic transfer desk at T1 and tell them you'd like to checkin for QFxx_ SYD/BNE.

Maybe leave the QF12 JFK/SYD tags on the bag until you checkin for SYD/BNE in case QF12 is delayed inbound or you're caught up waiting for your priority bags to come off the carousel, as it's 'proof' you've arrived off a QFi flight just in case you miss your SYD/BNE flight and need to be transferred to a later flight at no cost.

There are plenty of cases when people are through checked to domestic destinations they no longer require, however it can all go pear shaped when the people leave the airport at the gateway city with their bags blissfully unaware that they are still showing as a passenger checked in with luggage on their original connecting domestic flight.

It won't be apparent 'til the final stages of boarding that they are a fail to board pax with bags so there would be a flurry of activity trying to locate the pax. In most cases bags are scanned when they are loaded so it would soon be apparent that the bags weren't scanned (and loaded) so the pax would then be offloaded.

Prior to the introduction of scanning bags, the baggage handlers would have had to strip the hold ie unload all the bags in order to find the bags to be offloaded which would be a fruitless exercise as the bags weren't even on the plane! Of course this would cause a lengthy delay to the flight departure and a lot of unhappy passengers.

 

[amaroo]

Re: Dropping the last sector ... fronting up to T1 transfer with another booking to B

All good. I got J x 2 released for BNE-SYD-xLAX-JFK .... JFK-LAX-BNE. It pays to be WP

 

[Rugby]

Re: Dropping the last sector ... fronting up to T1 transfer with another booking to B

All good. I got J x 2 released for BNE-SYD-xLAX-JFK .... JFK-LAX-BNE. It pays to be WP

Welcome back

 

[amaroo]

Re: Dropping the last sector ... fronting up to T1 transfer with another booking to B

Welcome back

That 3 months went fast ... lucikly, I only had to walk past the Flounge once

 

[ozbeachbabe]

Re: Dropping the last sector ... fronting up to T1 transfer with another booking to B

All good. I got J x 2 released for BNE-SYD-xLAX-JFK .... JFK-LAX-BNE. It pays to be WP

For those who aren't WP and not eligible to get award seats released they could always book their award as JFK/xSYD/ADL then call up and move the SYD/ADL flight to a future date (as long as stopovers are still permitted) for another trip so all they'd have to do is purchase a one way ticket back to SYD.

 

[madrooster]

Re: Dropping the last sector ... fronting up to T1 transfer with another booking to B

move the SYD/ADL flight to a future date (as long stopovers are still permitted) for another trip

What's the definition of a long stopover?

 

[ozbeachbabe]

Re: Dropping the last sector ... fronting up to T1 transfer with another booking to B

What's the definition of a long stopover?

No idea. I should have said "as long as stopovers are permitted" - which Ive now corrected.

The IATA definition of a stopover on an international ticket is over 24 hours. Sorry 'bout that MR.

 

[amaroo]

Re: Dropping the last sector ... fronting up to T1 transfer with another booking to B

All good. I got J x 2 released for BNE-SYD-xLAX-JFK .... JFK-LAX-BNE. It pays to be WP

FWIW its been ticketed ... QFFP = 512,000 + $2,120

Got lucky and jagged QF17 1A/1K (showing as a 4 class bird) so a 17.30 departure means plenty of time for SYD Flounging.

 

[madrooster]

Re: Dropping the last sector ... fronting up to T1 transfer with another booking to B

No idea. I should have said "as long as stopovers are permitted" - which Ive now corrected.

Unless something has changed, I thought QF classic awards did not permit stopovers?

 

[serfty]

Re: Dropping the last sector ... fronting up to T1 transfer with another booking to B

Unless something has changed, I thought QF classic awards did not permit stopovers?

They do ... it's just that a new "trip" is generated ... (Unless it's a classic oneworld award ... in which case it uses one of the five stopovers).

 

[madrooster]

Re: Dropping the last sector ... fronting up to T1 transfer with another booking to B

They do ... it's just that a new "trip" is generated ... (Unless it's a classic oneworld award ... in which case it uses one of the five stopovers).

A new "trip" would mean additional points to be paid, in the case of a QF classic award?