Originally Posted by number_6
IB, AY and EI don't presently allow e-ticketing, so any ticket including sectors on those airlines cannot be e-ticketed by any OW airline. This obviously also applies to codeshares since the handling is actually by the flying airline. So QF is no different from AA (or BA) in this respect; however AA can split a ticket into paper/e-ticket parts, so on AA I could get e-ticket up to the "BA on AY" segment and then switch to paper for the rest. It won't be fixed until all OW airlines upgrade their IT systems for e-ticketing.
Yes, we did pick that up before ticketing and I was moved from the AY-operated BA codeshare to the BA operated BA flight number. But the problem was that the HEL-LHR flight, even though operated and coded by BA, was still unable to be e-ticketed since the check-in and ground handling for BA in HEL is done by AY and their check-in agents can't see the BA e-ticket.
So there are still
some BA flights that are not eligilbe for e-ticket. I wonder is AY agents can see AA's e-tickets currently?
I do understand that full OneWorld e-ticket capability is due soon.