qantas.com to have on-line OneWorld Explorer booking

[JonNYC]

OneWorld dot com instituted on-line OW Explorer ticket booking today and I was originally told that qantas dot com was to have it's own version (for whatever reason) starting today as well, I'd expect it to show up shortly.

 

[Alanslegal]

oneworld - Plan and Book your Itinerary

Maybe this?

 

[JonNYC]

Maybe this?

That's the link to the one at the oneworld site (I couldn't post the link myself) but I'm also under the impression that a version of this will be showing up on qantas dot com quite soon.

 

[Flashback]

That's the link to the one at the oneworld site (I couldn't post the link myself) but I'm also under the impression that a version of this will be showing up on qantas dot com quite soon.

1 more post JonNYC and you'll also be able to post URL's

 

[Evan]

Yes it really works !
But ummm, ex ICN i just did a sample... 1.8 million KRW taxes and fuel fines since it sends you to QF to ticket. I guess you can only ticket through QF for now.
AUD $1930 and of that about 60% is fuel surcharge, atleast they break it down for you... hmmm, i dont think i will be using it till i can ticket with AA.
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[serfty]

Use the oneworld portal.

If your first flight is marketed by AA (e.g. a codeshare MEL-SYD on QF metal), it get's ticketed using AA's engine.

here's the page:

• oneworld - Plan and Book your Itinerary

 

[Evan]

The ticketing airline will be indicated in your Confirmation page. In most cases, it will be the airline whose code is on the first flight of your itinerary.

AA=American Airlines, AY=Finnair, BA=British Airways, CX=Cathay Pacific Airways, IB=Iberia, JC=JAL Express (ticketed by Qantas), JL=JAL (ticketed by Qantas), JO=JALways (ticketed by Qantas), LA=LAN, LP=LanPeru (ticketed by LAN), KA=Dragonair (ticketed by Cathay Pacific), MA=Malév, NU=Japan Transocean Air (ticketed by Qantas), QF=Qantas Airways, RJ=Royal Jordanian (ticketed by American Airlines), XL=LanEcuador (ticketed by LAN), 4M=LanArgentina (ticketed by LAN)

Thank serfty, i just figured this out.... JL = ticket by QF
Oh well, can still call AA to do it manually. I dont think there is any/many AA codeshares from Korea.
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[Mal]

There's now a link on the Qantas homepage:

Qantas oneworld planner

So just a slightly rebranded OneWorld booking tool. May be other changes, but havn't looked.

 

[JonNYC]

There's now a link on the Qantas homepage:


So just a slightly rebranded OneWorld booking tool. May be other changes, but havn't looked.

Yeah, it doesn't appear to be anything more than that-- I was under the impression it was possibly going to be different in some way.

 

[Evan]

I need to play with it and see if you force and AA sector first and it gets looked as an AA ticket how does it treat surcharges etc, will it behave in the same way as it would happen through the call center. Could be a great way to minimise taxes by booking on AA but not doing over waters on AA metal to avoid as many fuel fines as possible. All depends what smarts have been put into it. I will play on the weekend and post results here
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[serfty]

I need to play with it and see if you force and AA sector first and it gets looked as an AA ticket ...

The answer is YES.

More here on Flyertalk:

• oneworld xONEx online booking tool [merged threads] - Page 5 - FlyerTalk Forums

This can be important as to upgrade AA flights using AAdvantage mile you need 001- ticket "stock".

 

[Dave Noble]

The answer is YES.

More here on Flyertalk:

• oneworld xONEx online booking tool [merged threads] - Page 5 - FlyerTalk Forums

This can be important as to upgrade AA flights using AAdvantage mile you need 001- ticket "stock".

It isn't that important since AA can reissue the ticket (ne fee) as necessary

Dave

 

[serfty]

But it does remove one possible point of failure.

Thinking about that, if ticketed on 081 or 001 stock and you have BA flights, is it possible to arrange for BAEC miles upgrades?

 

[Dave Noble]

Thinking about that, if ticketed on 081 or 001 stock and you have BA flights, is it possible to arrange for BAEC miles upgrades?

Nope

Dave

 

[Evan]

Sure enough, when the almost same itin is ticket via CX the taxes drop. about 1.5 million this time, i will ring to get the AA quote tomorrow.
Pity all the AA codeshares are all gone so no chance to do it online. Also pity the markets have gone crazy and the KRW is down from 920 yesterday to about 880 today

So from a first look it seems to work the taxes more or less correctly from what i can see.

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[Evan]

Was interesting to use it and could be good for easy bookings if you can get an AA flight number for your first flight but just went the AA UK call center way with the Europe/Canada rule, and was happy with the result, it works well if you have about 2 hours to spend on the a couple of phone calls.

Thanks QF009 for the hints and idea.

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