Hi,
Im booking some DONE5 tickets, the American parts of this trip appear to automatically upgrade to F, do they count as F for point purposes or J?
2 class flights within North America (and on QR within the middle east) do not have business class, they have First and Economy. The rules cause these flights on a DONEx to book in to A. FF programs will treat those flights as A flights. (However, if you book those 2 class flights on the QF code, you will be booked into D. AA does not sell ICDJ booking classes on their North American 2 class flights. The QF codeshares
do.)
This rule covers almost every flight by AA and US within the US, Canada and parts of Mexico and the Caribbean. Flights not covered are those short haul international flights were the domestic F cabin is sold as Business, the 1 class regional jets, the JFK-LAX/SFO A321T flights and selected 777 hub-hub flights.
The rule works as follows:
If D is offered, but not available > book as Y.
If D is not offered > book as A. If A is not available > book as Y.
xONEx flights, depending on the exact flight can book into one of the following booking class: GHLYIDJA. The FF program will credit the flight with the rules subject to that booking class and airline.
(I did an LGLOB26 in 2006, LONE4's yearly from 07-09 and combined DAS13/DONE3 yearly since 2010)
Can a DONE5 (paid) be booked through the Qantas site to earn additional points rather than the OneWorld site?
No. Booking online via the link on the QF website takes you to the oneworld site booking tool with QF branding. There have been some reports that following the QF link causes the quote to be more, but it doesn't mean that QF will issue the ticket. In order for QF to take payment and issue the ticket, you need a QF coded flight as the first sector or to call QF or a travel agent and make the booking offline.