Booking engine not showing codeshares on NZ eg AKL - WLG

[Ian Craigen]

Cant book flights from Auckland to anywhere in new zealand.

VA8479 for 27/3/13 is not bookable via the website, Google can find it, shows scheduled tomorrow.

Flightmapper has it as scheduled.
Mon-Fri 06:00 AKL D 07:00 WLG
VA 8479 Non-stop Boeing 737-300 (733) 1:00 Effective 2013-02-07 through 2013-03-29
Codeshare flight, operated by Air New Zealand.(NZ 401)

But was offered this one from another booking engine. 4 sectors 17:25hrs.
AKL VA MEL 179.25SZDNZ VA X/CBR 55.95UZDAS VA X/SYD 36.57UZDAS VA WLG Q8.29 229.04NZDNZ NUC 509.10 END ROE 1.205017 XT 9.50IA 36.08KK 68.20AU 50.60QR 2.70WG 52.40WY

 

[samh004]

Perhaps they've sold all the seats?

 

[williamsf1]

I don't think you can book a stand alone VA codeshare domestic NZ segment .... only valid if doing a TT flight ....

 

[Ian Craigen]

Per Flightstats for 27/3/2013 Y/7 B/7 H/7 K/7 L/7 E/7 N/7 V/7 Q/0 T/0 S/7 M/0 U/0 X/7

So plenty of availability. Just a broken booking engine. Phoned Contact Centre, and they said they could book it for me as a standalone.

Actually need it to get back from Mel on 26/3, nothing out of MEL to WLG in the afternoon/evening. So was going via MEL/AKL instead and then AKL WLG @ 6am next day.

But you cant do a multi city trip on the website, and you cant book the AKL WLG sector online either.

Is bookable on AirNZ, but prefer VA flight numbers.
MULTISTOP ITINERARY

DEPARTS	ARRIVES	FLIGHT INFO SERVICE CLASS
	6:30 PM Melbourne Tue 26 Mar	11:59 PM Auckland Tue 26 Mar	NZ0126 Economy	(Q)
	6:00 AM Auckland Wed 27 Mar	7:00 AM Wellington Wed 27 Mar	NZ0401 Economy	(H)

 

[williamsf1]

Per Flightstats for 27/3/2013 Y/7 B/7 H/7 K/7 L/7 E/7 N/7 V/7 Q/0 T/0 S/7 M/0 U/0 X/7

So plenty of availability. Just a broken booking engine. Phoned Contact Centre, and they said they could book it for me as a standalone.

Actually need it to get back from Mel on 26/3, nothing out of MEL to WLG in the afternoon/evening. So was going via MEL/AKL instead and then AKL WLG @ 6am next day.

But you cant do a multi city trip on the website, and you cant book the AKL WLG sector online either.

Is bookable on AirNZ, but prefer VA flight numbers.
MULTISTOP ITINERARY

DEPARTS	ARRIVES	FLIGHT INFO SERVICE CLASS
	6:30 PM Melbourne Tue 26 Mar	11:59 PM Auckland Tue 26 Mar	NZ0126 Economy	(Q)
	6:00 AM Auckland Wed 27 Mar	7:00 AM Wellington Wed 27 Mar	NZ0401 Economy	(H)

You cannot book a mulit city online ( ie with a stop over)

another thing to look out for ~Saver Lite and selected Saver fare classes (U, M, S, T, Q, V, N, E) are ineligible for Points earn when travelling on domestic connections within New Zealand on Virgin Australia codeshare services operated by Air New Zealand.