Just wondering if others have encountered a similar issue where the Delta flight numbers for a VA ticket issued with VA code share flight numbers operated by Delta are changed after the issuing of the ticket. (I have posted about this before).
I have an itinerary coming up next week SYD-LAX-JFK-LAX-SYD.
The SYD-LAX flight is VA1 & LAX-SYD is VA2. The VA ticket has the flight number for LAX-JFK as VA6611 & for JFK-LAX VA6659. When first ticketed after making the booking and cross-checking my itinerary on the DL web site, it was showing my VA6611 flight as being operated by DL234 and the JFK-LAX VA6659 being operated by DL447
Some time later after making the booking, I noticed that on the Delta web site my JFK-LAX flight was showing as DL400 and no mention of it as being VA codeshare flight VA6659.
Today I made arrangements through my US office to have a limo meet my LAX-JFK flight DL234. To my surprise the office in the US came back to me to say that flight DL234 was a flight that went from Minneapolis to Las Vegas!!
Jumped back onto the DL website to again check my itinerary and sure enough the flight from LAX-JFK was now DL444 and again no mention of the VA codeshare flight number VA6611. My VA itinerary makes no mention of the new DL flight numbers and still shows the VA codeshare flight numbers.
I've had this issue happen to me several times in past years when flying the same itinerary and I've ended up having to spend much time & effort resolving the matter with VFF because they did not correctly credit my Delta flights with "eligible sectors" and status credits. Convincing VFF to award me "Original Routing Credit" based on my VA ticket wasn't easy.
I'm sure I would have picked up the changes when I checked in.
I have an itinerary coming up next week SYD-LAX-JFK-LAX-SYD.
The SYD-LAX flight is VA1 & LAX-SYD is VA2. The VA ticket has the flight number for LAX-JFK as VA6611 & for JFK-LAX VA6659. When first ticketed after making the booking and cross-checking my itinerary on the DL web site, it was showing my VA6611 flight as being operated by DL234 and the JFK-LAX VA6659 being operated by DL447
Some time later after making the booking, I noticed that on the Delta web site my JFK-LAX flight was showing as DL400 and no mention of it as being VA codeshare flight VA6659.
Today I made arrangements through my US office to have a limo meet my LAX-JFK flight DL234. To my surprise the office in the US came back to me to say that flight DL234 was a flight that went from Minneapolis to Las Vegas!!
Jumped back onto the DL website to again check my itinerary and sure enough the flight from LAX-JFK was now DL444 and again no mention of the VA codeshare flight number VA6611. My VA itinerary makes no mention of the new DL flight numbers and still shows the VA codeshare flight numbers.
I've had this issue happen to me several times in past years when flying the same itinerary and I've ended up having to spend much time & effort resolving the matter with VFF because they did not correctly credit my Delta flights with "eligible sectors" and status credits. Convincing VFF to award me "Original Routing Credit" based on my VA ticket wasn't easy.
I'm sure I would have picked up the changes when I checked in.