Originally Posted by
irishguy28
...and I am guessing that EK will not be able to plate tickets where QF flights are booked as QF flights, but will always use the EK code. And if the itinerary involved flights on which EK didn't codeshare (are there any?), then QF would have been the plating carrier, and the e-ticket would have been issued as an 081 ticket, with most likely all flights as QF rather than EK flights.
Emirates can act as an agent and sell QF flights if it wants to
As stated by nux, it does not matter who issues the ticket or what the ticket number is, what matters is what flight number it is booked as
I have seen QF and VA sectors on EK tickets