Fiji flight questions - mix of QF and Fiji

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Jules Verne

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Hi,

i am am currently a QP member with no status after Bugger all flying of late.

i am heading to Fiji for Christmas and in my haste to book a flight have booked a non-cancellable ticket with Fijiian ex Sydney with an internal flight on Qantas to Sydney, rather than qantas code share.

To date the only smart thing I've seems to have done is phone qantas and get the two bookings linked.

The questions I have to see if my stupidity is going to bite me in the bum (which I suspect it will) are as follows:

1. As a result of linking the Qantas and Fijiian PNR's will I have the ability to interline my bags to Nadi from my original destination?

2. Will I be able to utilise the Qantas transfer service from Domestic to international?

3. Should I even bother asking the QP staff at international business lounge to forgive my stupidity and allow me access to the lounge?

thanks for your help.
 
Hi,

i am am currently a QP member with no status after Bugger all flying of late.

i am heading to Fiji for Christmas and in my haste to book a flight have booked a non-cancellable ticket with Fijiian ex Sydney with an internal flight on Qantas to Sydney, rather than qantas code share.

To date the only smart thing I've seems to have done is phone qantas and get the two bookings linked.

The questions I have to see if my stupidity is going to bite me in the bum (which I suspect it will) are as follows:

1. As a result of linking the Qantas and Fijiian PNR's will I have the ability to interline my bags to Nadi from my original destination?

2. Will I be able to utilise the Qantas transfer service from Domestic to international?

3. Should I even bother asking the QP staff at international business lounge to forgive my stupidity and allow me access to the lounge?

thanks for your help.

Linking the PNRs won't have any impact on whether Qantas will interline the bags. QF's policy is clear - they will only interline on same ticket, separate Qantas tickets, or separate oneworld tickets.

Whether or not they have a similar policy/exception in place for QF->FJ you'd need to ask them.

If not, you'd have to collect your bags on arrival in SYD, then make your own way to international.

QC access in SYD - your next flight must be on a QF or JQ flight number.
 
I can't vouch for how you will go with lounge access in SYD, but you might be ok in NAN. We couldn't access the Int J lounge in SYD because for some reason they didn't print my QFF number on the BP, but they let us in coming home at NAN by showing my Gold QFF card.
 
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Hi,

i am am currently a QP member with no status after Bugger all flying of late.

i am heading to Fiji for Christmas and in my haste to book a flight have booked a non-cancellable ticket with Fijiian ex Sydney with an internal flight on Qantas to Sydney, rather than qantas code share.

To date the only smart thing I've seems to have done is phone qantas and get the two bookings linked.

The questions I have to see if my stupidity is going to bite me in the bum (which I suspect it will) are as follows:

1. As a result of linking the Qantas and Fijiian PNR's will I have the ability to interline my bags to Nadi from my original destination?

2. Will I be able to utilise the Qantas transfer service from Domestic to international?

3. Should I even bother asking the QP staff at international business lounge to forgive my stupidity and allow me access to the lounge?

thanks for your help.

You cannot 'link' a QF pnr with any other airline's pnr so I suspect you mean that you called up reservations who simply added in your FJ flight bnumber as an information segment. This info segment is absolutely of no use to anybody other than the person in reservations who happens to be looking at your booking when you call up.

It does not generate to checkin at all so when you checkin for the QF domestic flight - they won't be able to see your FJ oncarriage flight nor will they be able to add it in at the airport as FJ are not a member of the One World Alliance. For through checking on separate pnrs the airline must either be One World or EK.

As Mel_Traveller mentioned above, in order to get lounge access either in SYD or NAN (if travelling in whY) your flight must be booked as a QF codeshare flight number aka marketed by QF. Your boarding pass will always show the flight number of the operating airline eg FJ913 however in the comments section on the boarding pass it will say the all important "sold as QFxx_". The lounges print off the codeshare list so they know what pax are eligible for lounge access.

If you are booked in J then you will get lounge access in SYD and NAN because of the class of travel so doesn't matter whether you're booked under QF or FJ code.

I can't vouch for how you will go with lounge access in SYD, but you might be ok in NAN. We couldn't access the Int J lounge in SYD because for some reason they didn't print my QFF number on the BP, but they let us in coming home at NAN by showing my Gold QFF card.

If you were travelling in whY then your SYD/NAN/SYD flights would have to be booked as a QF codeshare flight. If the lounge denied you access it must have been booked as an FJ marketed flight.

If you were booked as a QF marketed flight they should have been able to simply add your QF ffn into the booking and therefore give you access to the J Lounge - just because your SG number wasn't in the pnr is no reason to knock you back.

Same rules ex NAN - if travelling in whY you will only get access to the Tabua Lounge if your flight is booked/marketed as QFxx_. If you are travelling J then you will receive access based on class of service travelled irrespective of whether flight is booked as QF or FJ.
 
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Thanks ozbeachbabe, yes we were in Y. I suspect we bought the tickets via FJ rather than QF and the NAN lounge person was just nice enough to wave us in. They were definitely on "Fiji time" that day. :lol:

But it was a year ago now so I can't remember, and TBH can't be bothered checking either. All I remember is that we didn't have our QFF numbers on the BP, so I figured that settled it. But thanks to now being a member of AFF, I know enough to ask - or in the first instance, to make sure that the booking has a codeshare in the first place!
 
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