90min cairns connection enough?

[Ben174]

I booked a award ticket Mel to Tokyo. Ended up it being Mel to cairns qantas J and then connecting to star class on a code share qantas number to Tokyo.

In cairns I have exactly 90minutes on ground between flights. Is this enough?

I assume I have to pick bags up and walk them from domestic to International and check in again?

 

[ozbeachbabe]

I booked a award ticket Mel to Tokyo. Ended up it being Mel to cairns qantas J and then connecting to star class on a code share qantas number to Tokyo.

In cairns I have exactly 90minutes on ground between flights. Is this enough?

I assume I have to pick bags up and walk them from domestic to International and check in again?

Is it all in the one pnr?

Your baggage should be through checked from MEL to NRT & most of the time you will receive both boarding passes in MEL so all you'd need to do is walk from the dom term to intl term in CNS with your hand luggage & proceed through customs.

If you don't get your CNS/NRT boarding pass in MEL just see the JQi service desk at CNS Intl term prior to clearing customs & they will print it out for you.

Make sure you ask the checkin agent at MEL domestic for your green departure card so you can fill this in prior to your arrival in CNS thus saving you a bit of time.

 

[Ben174]

I always just thought jetstar didn't do baggage aligning as it was point to point airline ? Hence concerned about waiting for luggage in cairns and having to run it across to int terminal (will be ski gear etc so a bit to carry!)

Thanks for your help though. Maybe being codeshare qantas will check me right through

 

[Limewood]

Its a 10min walk from Dom to Int., just hope its not raining (lately very little).

 

[ozbeachbabe]

I always just thought jetstar didn't do baggage aligning as it was point to point airline ?

Thanks for your help though. Maybe being codeshare qantas will check me right through

JQ don't interline bags to QF or even themselves if the first flight is a JQ dom (ie A320 a/c) flight.

I take it that if the CNS/NRT flight is a QF codeshare flight then it's in the same pnr as the MEL/CNS flight so at least you don't have to ask the CSA to add your JQ flight details in.

It shouldn't matter whether the connecting flight CNS/NRT was booked as QF249 or JQ19 either in the one QF pnr or whether both sectors were booked separately through QF & JQ respectively.

Some AFFers have reported in some cases QF had said they were unable to through check bags from QF to JQi flights if flights were booked on separate pnrs so if both flights are in the one pnr you've alleviated one possible hurdle.