Originally Posted by NM
And that can have lots to do with the destination. For example, I had a DONE4 which QF wanted to e-ticket as it only contained QF/BA/AA flights. BUT one of the BA flights (BA number and BA metal) was HEL-LHR and BA's ground handling in Helsinki is done by AY, and AY's check-in agents use the AY computer system to do the check-in. They would not be able to see the E-Ticket since AY is not yet part of the OneWorld E-Ticket environment. Therefore I had to pay for a paper ticket to be ussued.
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is part of the OW e-ticket environment - at least as far as AA is concerned. Here's what a June 8 AA press release said.....
"American Airlines will become the first airline in the world to offer interline electronic ticketing with all its global alliance partners when it completes the roll out of the service with Aer Lingus and Iberia in the coming days, ..."
"American Airlines set oneworld’s interline e-ticketing progamme running with partner Finnair in May 2002, becoming the world’s first airlines based on separate continents to introduce this service. American connected up with LanChile last July, with Cathay Pacific and Qantas in November and British Airways in April."
"British Airways expects to be the second oneworld member to offer interline e-ticketing with all other oneworld members – making it also the second airline in the world to provide this convenience with all its global alliance partners. Besides its American Airlines link, it has been offering the service with Qantas since April and in the past few days has launched it too with Finnair. It aims to extend it to Aer Lingus later this month, with the other four oneworld partners linked up by the end of August."
Whether Helsinki is a problem because QF and AY don't yet have interline e-ticketing and/or it's something more specific to Helsinki, I've no idea....