Vietnam Airlines Premium Economy codeshare - beware!

[MEL_Traveller]

Thanks for the response. The OLCI working with the VN PNR is an interesting theory/observation, if that works and I get a bit more time to deal with it, that would help.

Secondly, haven't even thought of EU261 yet, good call out! But given my contract is with VN, wouldn't they be on the hook for any compensation? Or is it the operating carrier?

It’s the operating carrier.

Hopefully this is just a case of different IT systems needing to sync.

The other thing… on the day of travel, is there a VN metal flight to Vietnam? If AF rejects the PEY ticket can you go to a VN ticket desk at the airport, or even get yourself put on a VN aircraft, in PEY (even if its via another city in Vietnam)

 

[jsoprano]

It’s the operating carrier.

Hopefully this is just a case of different IT systems needing to sync.

The other thing… on the day of travel, is there a VN metal flight to Vietnam? If AF rejects the PEY ticket can you go to a VN ticket desk at the airport, or even get yourself put on a VN aircraft, in PEY (even if its via another city in Vietnam)

Yes there are, two even! CDG-HAN leaves at the same time as the AF flight I am booked on, and CDG-SGN leaves about 2.5 hours earlier. I already thought about that as a fallback, hence why OLCI would be important, to have the time to, worst-case, escalate with VN and get re-booked on their own metal. Not ideal but would take that over AF Y any day.

And yeah, maybe I am just seeing shadows and worry about nothing. That would be the best case. And your earlier observation that there are not really any reports of actual downgrades is a good one. One would think if that would then happen weekly then they would have fixed it since. But who knows.

 

[sudoer]

What date is the trip? It would be worth looking at the seat map reported by EF for both AF flight number and VN codeshare (happy to do this for you)

Or if you have your own paid subscription, you could set an aircraft change alert.

 

[madrooster]

VN2106/2107 are VN blockspace codeshares operated by AF so it is not a regular run of the mill freesale codeshare.

There will be a separate AF operating carrier PNR, with its own record locator, but it does not get created until T-48h. Therefore at the moment there is no AF PNR at all. VN will not be able to tell you what the AF record locator is within T-48h, but AF will be able to find you by searching by ticket number or name against the prime flight number AF258.

The seat map loaded for VN2106/2107 is correct - it is this config: https://www.aerolopa.com/af-359-1