Originally Posted by
pandaperth
Codeshares are a whole different problem
I agree the tool does not work well in this regard
- for your first segment the tool is not displaying any codeshare flights for me
- you have already reported that it is displaying QF codeshares on EK metal for LHR-DXB and return
- on my itineraries sometimes it displays AA codeshares on other (QF, QR, LA) metal, sometimes not; sometimes it only displays the AA codeshare and not the operating carrier's flight number
For that first flight, it offered me JL29 and CX6321.
I've never seen the booking tool offer a AA coded QR flight, they don't even show up on the oneworld desktop timetable, but were on the online map timetable last time I looked. Been trying to get (with current routing) AA7974 and AA7993.
For QF4017/QF4025 (JL38/JL36), it offers the QF code seemingly at random.
What bugs me most about the tool is what flights it offers. I can understand it not showing a flight if there is no A/D/L availability. It's very annoying when there is and it doesn't show.
I wonder if it will book the EK coded QF flights. The (old) tool allowed me to book a QF coded AS flight a few years ago. When I got stuck in DXB during my last DONE3 (BA delay, refusal to check through and transfer desks screwing me around triggered a missed connection to QF. EK tried to contact BA, then CX (ticket issuer) then QF), QF refused to rebook me to a QF codeshare back to LHR and gave me a hotel and rebook on QF1 24 hours later.