Checked baggage through on separate bookings

[Katie]

Yeah, unfortunately my reading of this is that because my flights are both award tickets, that exemption doesn't apply to me.

Taking the gate 15 transit bus is the outcome I'm hoping for. But it looks like there's not much I can do ahead of time - just turn up at Mel domestic and ask if my bags can be checked through.

I've read elsewhere (other threads on here), that the airside bus isn't operating at the moment, you need to catch a landside bus anyway.
I'd consider the train, even though it costs money, should be faster than the bus at this time of year.

 

[justinbrett]

The QF exception covers reward and revenue for oneworld flights.

The SQ/QR-QF example goes across airline alliances.

So if the SQ policy was the same as QF’s it would only cover star alliance reward/revenue, not from star to oneworld (QR/QF).

Yeah, but again in that example it was connecting to a oneworld flight (QR).

No need to split hairs. We both know that we both know the policy.

 

[DC3]

Last year, I flew award MEL-LAX on QF and connected onto DFW on a paid AA flight.

AA are pretty good at that.

 

[justinbrett]

AA are pretty good at that.

Nothing to do with AA, that’s QF published policy at work.

AA won’t even connect to other AA flights on different bookings. There are rate exceptions (like the one I mentioned earlier) but certainly something you can’t expect.