Cheapoair - do bookings earn status credits or points?

[drno]

Does anyone have experience using Cheapoair, do bookings made with them earn status credits or points? Or is there something else these tickets have missing?

Thanks

 

[calmelb]

It doesn't matter which booking agency you use as long as the ticket is on a Oneworld flight with a Oneworld airline number.

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[markis10]

It doesn't matter which booking agency you use as long as the ticket is on a Oneworld flight with a Oneworld airline number.

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Unless they are booking with points

 

[calmelb]

Unless they are booking with points

Don't travel agents/ booking websites not allow you to use points?

 

[juddles]

...Cheapoair....
Thanks

Pretty much all the online booking agencies are the same, albeit with small quirks that make ticket searching fun. But at the end of the day, yes, they get you points as the same as booking the same fare from anyone.

 

[markis10]

Don't travel agents/ booking websites not allow you to use points?

I am talking about the agent using points to make bookings, not the traveller.

Pretty much all the online booking agencies are the same, albeit with small quirks that make ticket searching fun. But at the end of the day, yes, they get you points as the same as booking the same fare from anyone.

"Online booking agencies are the same", couldn't disagree more. Do you really expect to get points when they are 2/3rds the price of QF directly, and they have this on their site in the general terms and conditions:

There is a higher probability of seats being available at this fare on Tuesday, Wednesday and Thursday and may require a Saturday night stay at your destination.

Hmm, when is the best time for an award???

 

[juddles]

.....Online booking agencies are the same, couldn't disagree more.

is that a doublé negative?? Are you agreeing or disagreeing?

 

[dajop]

... as long as the ticket is on a Oneworld flight with a Oneworld airline number.

... and as long as the ticket is in a eligible (points earning) fare class! Or a Qantas codeshare flight operated by another full service airline.

Cheapoair is, as far as I can tell a normal online travel agent, that doesn't redeem points for awards. My one and only dealing with them was for a fare was cancelled by them after I booked it, but before it was ticketed. Although I wouldn't normally expect that to happen - it was a cheap first class fare from Yangon to Montreal, which was a mistake, so they did their job properly and did not ticket the flight.

 

[markis10]

.....Online booking agencies are the same, couldn't disagree more.

is that a doublé negative?? Are you agreeing or disagreeing?

Disagreeing of course, online there is a massive difference between someone like expedia and the quoted agency, a quick google search would show that, especially on tripadvisor!

 

[juddles]

.....Online booking agencies are the same, couldn't disagree more.

...there is a massive difference between someone like expedia and the quoted agency.....!

I cannot express an opinión on customer service if something goes wrong, as I have been lucky and have not suffered such. But I buy many tickets through cheapoair / cheaptickets/expedia/vayama etc each year and the have never noticed any real difference in the basic fare class. The ¨difference¨ you refer to must be in after sales service??

 

[esseeeayeenn]

I have used Cheapoair quite a few times.
It can be useful because it can sell you fares unavailable in Australia.
For example I was able to book my son and I to fly BNE-VLI flying via SYD on a QF747 at the end of it's flight back from the US.
I have also been able to book tickets on VA which weren't available on Virgin's website.

For those flights - with QF and VA - I did receive points and status credits.
However, in 2013 I booked through Cheapoair to fly with QR AUH-DOH-OSL and then a connection with Icelandair OSL-KEF.
I expected to earn points and SCs on those QR sectors but did not.
However this was due to QR fare buckets not Cheapoair itself.
There does not seem to be any easy way to tell what fare bucket a cheapoair booking is in.
So I would be wary of this as most if not all OW airlines other than QF do have non-earning fare buckets.

My experience with problems has varied.
The utter chaos of Doha airport combined with QR ground crew incompetence meant my DOH-OSL flight was delayed and I missed my OSL-KEF flight.
However the agents at the airport happily offered me a later direct flight to Reykjavik or an earlier flight via Copenhagen.
I chose the earlier option thinking I would get two meals out of it. I had yet to learn that almost all european airlines have gone budget on their intraeuropean flights.
Anyway the point is it was all sorted - though again this had little to do with Cheapoair themselves.

In December I was having trouble booking flights to Fiji with VA on their site and was surprised to receive a call from Cheapoair in NYC.
They sorted the booking out for me. Unfortunately they booked me in Y on QF & FJ instead of PE on VA.
However when I pointed out the mistake they managed to change the booking while honouring the fare!
Sadly they only got it half right - PER-BNE-NAN was booked correctly so I was seated in J for PER-BNE.
However they must have booked the return flight differently and I was booked in Y for BNE-PER.
Naturally I avoided this potential disaster with a few velocity points!

 

[ozbeachbabe]

Beware if making last minute bookings with Cheapoair to attend things like funerals. Even though you have Cheapoair in full, if the ticket has not been issued by the time you get to the airport you'll have to call them in NYC & get them to issue the ticket as it may still be stuck in the ticketing queue which could result in you missing your flight if the issue isn't sorted when the flight closes for checkin.

Sales/ticketing desks at airports can't issue the etickets for Cheapoair bookings as they are not holding any payment so it would be like asking to fly now and pay later.

 

[drno]

Thanks for the feedback, the prices quoted had the "too good to be true" feel about them so I thought there had to be a catch.