This does not seem to the case with AY and QF. I had two seperate bookings a few times of SYD-BNE-SIN-MEL-SYD and SIN-BKK-SIN.NM said:This is less of a problem for flights within the major alliances. Even though the partner airlines may use different GDS systems, they have the systems links in place to access each other's check-in systems.
This is likely because AY ground services are provided by a third party in BKK. They do not have enough demand to have their own staff there, so it will be contracted to another airline or company. And it would seem they use a different organisation to QF and Swiss.JohnK said:In BKK when flying AY to SIN they will only issue boarding pass to SIN, but luggage is checked through to airport where I will clear Australian immigration, and I need to go to tansit counter in SIN to pick up remaining boarding passes.
It would seem that way.NM said:This is likely because AY ground services are provided by a third party in BKK. They do not have enough demand to have their own staff there, so it will be contracted to another airline or company. And it would seem they use a different organisation to QF and Swiss.JohnK said:In BKK when flying AY to SIN they will only issue boarding pass to SIN, but luggage is checked through to airport where I will clear Australian immigration, and I need to go to tansit counter in SIN to pick up remaining boarding passes.
minore said:thank you for your replies my 1st flight is with qantaslink and my inter. flight is wiyh qantas when returning i am allways issued with inter and domestic boarding paases.
JohnK said:I thought check-in staff were employed directly by the airport rather than a third party organisation. Oh well, you learn something new everyday. Is that the case in Australia?
JohnK said:It would seem that way.NM said:This is likely because AY ground services are provided by a third party in BKK. They do not have enough demand to have their own staff there, so it will be contracted to another airline or company. And it would seem they use a different organisation to QF and Swiss.JohnK said:In BKK when flying AY to SIN they will only issue boarding pass to SIN, but luggage is checked through to airport where I will clear Australian immigration, and I need to go to tansit counter in SIN to pick up remaining boarding passes.
JohnK said:I thought check-in staff were employed directly by the airport rather than a third party organisation. Oh well, you learn something new everyday. Is that the case in Australia?
DPG said:JohnK, one suggestion to try an get it working is to call up AY and ask them to put the QF sectors in the AY PNR as an information or passive sector. This way when you check in in BKK for your BKK-SIN flight, they can see the SIN-MEL-SYD sectors. I have found this method quite successful in getting bookings linked together for checkin.
Sounds like a good idea DPG.DPG said:JohnK, one suggestion to try an get it working is to call up AY and ask them to put the QF sectors in the AY PNR as an information or passive sector. This way when you check in in BKK for your BKK-SIN flight, they can see the SIN-MEL-SYD sectors. I have found this method quite successful in getting bookings linked together for checkin.
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JohnK said:Not a great hassle to get boarding passes in SIN unless flight is late in arriving.
bambbbam2 said:I love the way, when in Broome, the local staff may be wearing a VB jacket but issue you with a QF boarding pass, and vice-versa!
This is because the domestic seating allocations are done overnight by the QF computer tha day of the flight. And you have checked-in for the flight before the computer has done its thing with your profile and seating preference.bravoecho1 said:Slightly OT, but one thing that has happened to me a number of times when checking in overseas is that I receive my intl and dom boarding pass, but the seat allocation for the dom flight is usually the worst seat in the house and nothing like my profile.
Coming back from SIN yesterday, we were on QF32 and connecting to QF556 to BNE. For the BNE sector my wife and I were allocated 56 J & K, the worst seats in the house!! When we presented ourselves to the transfer desk, I asked about the seating and the lady quickly changed it to 26 J & K with the comment that the SIN checkin agent might of been having a bad day :?
certainly should have been done by then.bravoecho1 said:NM,
I thought that may be the case for flights coming from Europe when you check in the day before, but yesterday's example we checked in at 0930 Oz time with our domestic flight departing at 2100 on the same day, so surely the allocations had been done by then
Another scenario to consider is if the flight has a light(ish) load then computer would ensure that the passengers would be spread throughout the cabin. I think this has something to do with balancing loads and conserving fuel. Off course you can always ask to be allocated a new seat (as you did) if there are seats available.bravoecho1 said:I thought that may be the case for flights coming from Europe when you check in the day before, but yesterday's example we checked in at 0930 Oz time with our domestic flight departing at 2100 on the same day, so surely the allocations had been done by then