I've just booked a flight through Qantas website Brisbane to Queenstown via Sydney for next year.
The connection time between the two flights is only 60 minutes. I've been in contact with Qantas and they have confirmed that this is a legal connection time - but I have read on other posts on this forum that this is likely to be cutting this fine. Everything would have to go right in order to make the next flight.
As it stands I am on the first flight out of Brisbane, and due to other commitments cannot fly down the night before.
If I miss the connecting flight there is no way to get to Queenstown that day via Qantas. Best they could probably do would be get me to another NZ city and then a domestic connection the next day.
If worse comes to worse and I just miss the connection there is a Virgin Blue flight that leaves an hour later - and assuming it had spare capacity it would provide the only alternative I can find to get to Queenstown on the same day.
I've done some insurance investigation and QANTAS/QBE do offer a missed connection insurance but only for 'special events'.
The Questions I have are:
1) If the miss connection due to weather (eg fog) or other flight related reason what will be Qantas's obligation to me in terms of on-travel/accommodation? I can't find any missed connection policies on their website.
2) Assuming the worse - If I go with the QBE insurance - what would I need to do in order to trigger their missed connection cover and try at the last minute to snaffle some seats on that later Virgin Blue flight?
3) Assume that we were attending a wedding: what evidence would I need to provide for QBE to be satisfied that we were attending a 'special event'?
The connection time between the two flights is only 60 minutes. I've been in contact with Qantas and they have confirmed that this is a legal connection time - but I have read on other posts on this forum that this is likely to be cutting this fine. Everything would have to go right in order to make the next flight.
As it stands I am on the first flight out of Brisbane, and due to other commitments cannot fly down the night before.
If I miss the connecting flight there is no way to get to Queenstown that day via Qantas. Best they could probably do would be get me to another NZ city and then a domestic connection the next day.
If worse comes to worse and I just miss the connection there is a Virgin Blue flight that leaves an hour later - and assuming it had spare capacity it would provide the only alternative I can find to get to Queenstown on the same day.
I've done some insurance investigation and QANTAS/QBE do offer a missed connection insurance but only for 'special events'.
The Questions I have are:
1) If the miss connection due to weather (eg fog) or other flight related reason what will be Qantas's obligation to me in terms of on-travel/accommodation? I can't find any missed connection policies on their website.
2) Assuming the worse - If I go with the QBE insurance - what would I need to do in order to trigger their missed connection cover and try at the last minute to snaffle some seats on that later Virgin Blue flight?
3) Assume that we were attending a wedding: what evidence would I need to provide for QBE to be satisfied that we were attending a 'special event'?