Originally Posted by
AA EXP DFW-LON
Hi. If I fly SYD-JFK on an AONE5, can I then travel JFK-LAX on QF as my next step after a stopover in NYC? Or will QF in JFK deny me boarding at JFK?
Not at all; for cabotage regulations you only require an international flight on any carrier to/from the USA in your itinerary.
For their own reasons, Qantas take this one step further and require you to have a flight on Qantas to/from the USA (this means transpacific) on the same PNR to use QF107/QF108 between JFK/LAX.
So, Once you have booked that transpacific flight on Qantas, they will permit you to travel on QF107/QF108 again as long as it's in the same booking.
Originally Posted by
SNA_Flyer
I would wager that they would. If you take LAX-JFK, your previous flight (stopover in LA is ok) needs to be Australia-LAX. Same goes with JFK-LAX, next flight would need to be operated by QF. I see how you think you might get around this - but it probably won't work.
This is not the case; as noted above Qantas require such a flight to be in the same PNR. So you could route SYD-JFK, JFK-LAX, LAX-LHR, LHR-SYD if you desired (or even SYD-LAX, LAX-JFK, JFK-LAX, LAX-LHR ...)