If I’m reading the information that you’ve provided correctly, your existing booking #1 on JL and BA has already brought your itinerary into the OWA realm.
It’s just a computer program. It maxes out at 318K as long as the itinerary is within the rules. I book when i see availability, and flights may be booked in any order.
And then monitor CMT to check that the flights remain ticketed. If they become unticketed then you need to call for immediate reticketing.
I may be wrong but I did not think a minor time change like this needed reticketing.
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Many Qantas passengers whose flights were altered by five minutes last year may beg to disagree. The point being that nothing is 100% certain and it is better to check now than to later wish you had done so.
I had 2 minor time changes recently as JAL seemed to be tinkering with their schedules and both were reticketed. Qantas sent the updated itineraries with the new e-ticket number within minutes of me accepting the changes.
I agree totally but just to get the facts straight, I have had to contact QFF re a small change like the above and the agent has said that reticketing was not needed.
Time changes without changing routing and flight number and dates should not need a reticket
They should not but they often do.
Hey Jimmy, so if you book legs one by one at different dates/times, how does the system know it's part of the same itinerary?
Correct, you have to phone up and say you’d like to add flights to an existing booking.
and pay the 5k points change fee, per pax per call (can add multiple flights on one call for one change fee per pax, if that works out)
Can the extra flights be booked on your own or do you have to phone up? Could they be added through the process outlined for making changes here? >> How to Fly Around the World with a Qantas Oneworld Classic Flight Reward [Mega Guide]It’s just a computer program. It maxes out at 318K as long as the itinerary is within the rules. I book when i see availability, and flights may be booked in any order.
Nothing to be too concerned about.
And… when you call, don’t refer to your booking as a OWCA or anything like it. Just say that you want to make a change to the itinerary. Many of the call centre staff seem as if they don’t know of or don’t fully understand the OWCA concept; so best not to confuse them…
I haven't been charged the change fee on a business OWA. I thought the change fee only applied to economy bookings or have I just been lucky?
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