Connections of Different Bookings

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Hi Guys,

have been reading this forum for a while and would like to say how fantastic it is, lots of infomation. (so I hope u can help me!!)

I am doing a one world around the world trip in may until July. It is my first major overseas trip so needless to say i am naive!!! I booked it through AA to save on taxes (thankyou!!), but because of the fare rules that only give you one domestic flight in your country, I have booked it ex Melbourne. I did this as i had family there and need to go there first.

However on the way back I don't need to be there, so I would prefer to come straight home to Perth. I arrive on July 13 from LAX at about 8am (qantas). If possible I would love to fly home straightaway (or even later that day), I am concerned that because my domestic flight on qantas is going to be on a seperate booking, will I be left stranded if the LAX flight is delayed and arrives after my Perth flight? I know if they where on the same ticket they would after me, but I can't have them on the same ticket. I would obviously fly Qantas MEL to PER. Does anyone know what would happen in the worst case senario? Any advice on what to do. If it matters I have no status with qantas. Thanks in advance!
 
Hi Guys,

have been reading this forum for a while and would like to say how fantastic it is, lots of infomation. (so I hope u can help me!!)

I am doing a one world around the world trip in may until July. It is my first major overseas trip so needless to say i am naive!!! I booked it through AA to save on taxes (thankyou!!), but because of the fare rules that only give you one domestic flight in your country, I have booked it ex Melbourne. I did this as i had family there and need to go there first.

However on the way back I don't need to be there, so I would prefer to come straight home to Perth. I arrive on July 13 from LAX at about 8am (qantas). If possible I would love to fly home straightaway (or even later that day), I am concerned that because my domestic flight on qantas is going to be on a seperate booking, will I be left stranded if the LAX flight is delayed and arrives after my Perth flight? I know if they where on the same ticket they would after me, but I can't have them on the same ticket. I would obviously fly Qantas MEL to PER. Does anyone know what would happen in the worst case senario? Any advice on what to do. If it matters I have no status with qantas. Thanks in advance!

You are allowed 4 sectors within country of origin, the issue relates to stopovers. As long as you have a spare sector , and you do not return to point of origin ( MEL in your case ) you can do flight to PER as part of the One World ticket. ( e.g. BNE-PER or SYD-PER ) . This would cost USD125 change fee

If it is a separate ticket, plan for no assistance if you misconnect and anything beyond that will be a bonus. Worst case would be having to buy new tickets on the day

Dave
 
You are allowed 4 sectors within country of origin, the issue relates to stopovers. As long as you have a spare sector , and you do not return to point of origin ( MEL in your case ) you can do flight to PER as part of the One World ticket. ( e.g. BNE-PER or SYD-PER ) . This would cost USD125 change fee

If it is a separate ticket, plan for no assistance if you misconnect and anything beyond that will be a bonus. Worst case would be having to buy new tickets on the day

Dave

when I was using the one world planner it wouldn't let me. I since up my sector anyway so I am out. It is exactly as I feared. Looks like I spend the night in Melbourne just to be safe. Could be worst it could be Sydney (nice city but family nuts) ;)
 
Could always look at a afternoon departure SYD-PER, only in a extreme circumstance would the flight from LAX be that delayed that it misses a afternoon connection.
 
Could always look at a afternoon departure SYD-PER, only in a extreme circumstance would the flight from LAX be that delayed that it misses a afternoon connection.

I think that is the way I will go either the QF481 (1845) or QF653 (2015). I just also realised how dumb I am. If the flight is that delayed I will be sitting in LAX so I can go on the qantas site take the fee and move it to a later flight, (or even calling Qantas). So I will do that. Thanks Blackadder!
 
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Qantas is not legally obliged to connect you through if you miss a separately ticketed connecting flight. Howefver, I believe they do tend to look after their own passengers even on separate bookings

Unfortunately I have no experience of this, but last year two instances - me on SQ running late for separately ticketied QF connection to CBR, QF moved me gratis at the airport. My partner on DL running late from LAX for separately coneected ticket to MEL. Again QF moved gratis at the airport. Maybe, in both instance being WP helps.

I was going to suggest the move at LAX if running late option as one solution, the other options are K class tcickets, or is use FF ticket, airport agents seem to have more flexibility around moving these at the airport than red ed-deal type tickets.
 
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