QF82 sold as KL4892.. (BP says QF82) Crediting?

[trooper]

This is way outside my experience... Recently flew CAI-CDG-SIN-SYD. KLM issued e-ticket (074 prefix) CAI-CDG-SIN operated by AF, then SIN-SYD by QF. AF issued boarding pass listing the flight as QF82.

Can I credit it to my AA account? OR does the 074 e-tckt throw a spanner in the works there? Thanks, I have NO idea... lol

 

[justinbrett]

This is way outside my experience... Recently flew CAI-CDG-SIN-SYD. KLM issued e-ticket (074 prefix) CAI-CDG-SIN operated by AF, then SIN-SYD by QF. AF issued boarding pass listing the flight as QF82.

Can I credit it to my AA account? OR does the 074 e-tckt throw a spanner in the works there? Thanks, I have NO idea... lol

Boarding passes generally use the operating flight number. Sometimes they will have the marketing flight number on there as well in smaller print.

Crediting to AA would require QF to be the marketing carrier, so I think the answer is no. Although, if there's no reference to the marketing carrier at all on the BP, you could always try.

 

[trooper]

Thanks! Yes, i've just noticed the other flights BP's have AF not KL flight numbers so that is consistent! I may as well try to credit to AA...it will be of little use to me anywhere else. The Gulf Air J flights I took on the same trip were such good value I'm not at all fussed to have nowhere to put those miles! I am getting a bit ......ecumenical in my retirement years!!!

 

[FlyingKangaroo]

Worth a shot. I've done this with mixed results in various situations.

On a recent Etihad ticket, I had an EY-marketed but KLM-operated flight from Helsinki to Amsterdam. VA obviously wouldn't credit the flight as it was operated by KLM, so I gave it a shot with Delta as the boarding pass showed just the KLM flight number, and they credited it to my account.

By contrast, I recently also had a Qantas-issued ticket that included flights on South African Airways with SA, not QF, flight numbers. Virgin Australia still ultimately refused to credit the flights because "it's a Qantas ticket", even though the SAA flights were listed as the actual SA flights and not QF codeshares (I still maintain VA was wrong but gave up when it was obvious I'd hit the wall with Manila).

Good luck!

 

[SilverFlamingo]

Worth a shot. I've done this with mixed results in various situations.

On a recent Etihad ticket, I had an EY-marketed but KLM-operated flight from Helsinki to Amsterdam. VA obviously wouldn't credit the flight as it was operated by KLM, so I gave it a shot with Delta as the boarding pass showed just the KLM flight number, and they credited it to my account.

By contrast, I recently also had a Qantas-issued ticket that included flights on South African Airways with SA, not QF, flight numbers. Virgin Australia still ultimately refused to credit the flights because "it's a Qantas ticket", even though the SAA flights were listed as the actual SA flights and not QF codeshares (I still maintain VA was wrong but gave up when it was obvious I'd hit the wall with Manila).

Good luck!

VA was indeed wrong - try their online missing points form. Takes a while but always ends up crediting through for me. SA are notoriously slow

 

[justinbrett]

For the record your ticket prefix is irrelevant. It’s just the marketing airline flight number and booking class that determines it.

I got velocity points on a QF ticket featuring HA.

 

[FlyingKangaroo]

VA was indeed wrong - try their online missing points form. Takes a while but always ends up crediting through for me. SA are notoriously slow

Waited several months to no avail. SAA is indeed rough; “the system is offline” being the usual refrain we hear regardless of the company or industry.

In the interim I ended up having to take another trip that crossed the threshold we wanted to gift gold to my partner anyway, so I don’t care anymore.

Though the stubborn part of me is still tempted to try again on principle.

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For the record your ticket prefix is irrelevant. It’s just the marketing airline flight number and booking class that determines it.

I got velocity points on a QF ticket featuring HA.

Thanks for the confirmation. I’ll feel emboldened if I need to do this next month, as I have precisely the same scenario coming up.

 

[trooper]

Reporting back. Went to the Claim Missing miles section on the AAdvantage site. It wouldn't even accept the e-ticket number. Could not get past that first step. Still. Was worth a try!

 

[MEL_Traveller]

Thanks! Yes, i've just noticed the other flights BP's have AF not KL flight numbers so that is consistent! I may as well try to credit to AA...it will be of little use to me anywhere else. The Gulf Air J flights I took on the same trip were such good value I'm not at all fussed to have nowhere to put those miles! I am getting a bit ......ecumenical in my retirement years!!!

You found a home to credit points for your gulf air flights? They can go to Aeroplan if you need somewhere to put them