Last Saturday, I flew TG from HAN to BKK and then QF to MEL via SYD. TG checked my luggage all the way to MEL, but it never made QF2 in BKK despite 5 hours between my arrival and departure at BKK.

I must admit TG were very good about the whole thing. The error was realized quickly and TG sent my bags directly on TG from BKK to MEL, so they arrived only 90 minutes after I did.

Nevertheless, I think it shows that interlining between airlines that usually don't have a relationship doesn't always work perfectly.

Oh and another gripe. After arriving into BKK on TG, there was no rep at the QF/BA international transfer desk. Thinking OneWorld actually was an "alliance" I proceeded to the CX desk to receive my QF2 boarding pass. No such luck, I was told I would have to wait three hours until the QF/BA counter was staffed. This surprised me as I would have thought any OneWorld carrier could accommodate the this sort of request. At the very least, a joint CX/QF/BA transfer desk should be operating in a place like BKK, where people are flying in at all sorts of times to pick up the few BA and QF flights that operate there each day. Rather than wait three hours in the hallway that functions as the BKK international transfer area, I decided to exit the airport and spent a few hours in Bangkok instead (and then return and cough up another THB500 departure tax). I probably would have preferred to have waited the 3 hours before the QP opened in the duty free shops of BKK airport.

Has anyone else had experience like this?