Qantas multiple departure same return on 1 ticket

[5teve]

Hello, hoping someone can help here. Ive done a search but can't quite find what Im looking for. My wife and I will be flying LHR-BNE-LHR in August on separate departure dates but same return date. Is there any way to book them together on the same booking?

Few reasons: seats and luggage together, and we want to try use points to upgrade on the way back - wouldn't want 1 upgraded without the other!

Has anyone done this? and if so, would we each be able to put in for points upgrade on our respective departures too?

thanks
Steve

 

[mannej]

No way to book this with separate dates, however once booked you can call QF and ask them to TCP the bookings.

 

[docjames]

+1 have the pnrs (bookings) linked by calling Qantas (but they will remain separate bookings).

You can ask when you call to preselect seating together.

 

[5teve]

Many thanks for your replies, we will call qantas after booking. Does anyone know how points upgrade requests would work with linked PNRs? I.e both or none processed, total points required in 1 account or spread across both?

 

[docjames]

They will be treated as separate requests so in theory it's possible one will get the upgrade and the other won't.

Points will be taken from whichever account requests the upgrade (you could do both from the one account or one from each account).

 

[Quickstatus]

Just family transfer points to the other account so both accounts will have enough to cover any possible upgrade.

Echoing the other replies here.

You will get 2 separate tickets aka PNR.
Ring The airline to say both are travelling together on the dates you are actually travelling together. Doing so will not combine the tickets into one - just lets them know that PNR A is travelling with PNR B. I will actually ring twice - one to say please notethat PNR A is travelling with PNR B. Then another call for vice versa. Sometimes the note goes into PNR A ticket, but not into PNR B.

While the application of upgrades is in the realm of the dark arts, the request to be seated together may reduce the chance of upgrade if there is one upgrade seat avail.

For seat selections ring using the highest status Frequent flyer number as the airline will seat both of you according to the seats available to the highest FF member

You should know that as a QF SG your chances of upgrades will be quite low. What seats have you bought and what do you want to upgrade to?

 

[Jet2727]

This happened to my husband and I in 2014, we left for London on different dates, returned on the same flight. Had the PNRs linked by phoning the platinum line. Both applied for upgrades. I am platinum, at that time he was silver. As I predicted, I flew home in J and he was in Y. I did bring him a chocolate! .....and we had a catch up in the lounge area in business.

 

[esseeeayeenn]

This happened to my husband and I in 2014, we left for London on different dates, returned on the same flight. Had the PNRs linked by phoning the platinum line. Both applied for upgrades. I am platinum, at that time he was silver. As I predicted, I flew home in J and he was in Y. I did bring him a chocolate! .....and we had a catch up in the lounge area in business.

The crew allowed him into the lounge in the business cabin even though he was flying Y?
I have often wondered if this would be possible.

 

[Jet2727]

The cabin manager let me collect him from the upstairs in Y in the 380 so we could have a brief catch up. Luckily he was only sitting just behind J.....

 

[esseeeayeenn]

Ah lucky. I always felt they would frown upon it.
They didn't even like it when I ventured upstairs from F (having been upgraded).
They kept trying to persuade me to return downstairs where there was better champagne.