Originally Posted by
gruimed
I never said TK is a bad carrier, but they are not LH level either. The way to tell is to see how they handle a situation when things go wrong.
Anyway, back to TK and *A. Few examples:
1. I tried booking a flight from TLV to Japan (one of the smaller cities, which required a leg with ANA). Could not find anything with TK (they could only get me as far as Tokyo), booked with LH and ANA.
2. My agent explicitly told me that combining TK and LH tickets is no go. What is interesting is that apparently it is not just LH (see above)
3. Whenever a flight is delayed and one of the *A carriers need to put me on a different flight, they are extremely reluctant to use TK
I may think of other examples, but I think this clearly shows TK is mistreated - not just by LH, but by many other *A members too.
It seems in your example TK did not make arrangements to offer domestic connections in Japan with ANA (or JL for that matter). This has nothing to do with LH or *A. What a smart travel agent would have done is arrange the domestic flights for you using the ANA *A Japan airpass:
https://www.ana.co.jp/en/sg/book-pla...l/airpass.html
In irreg situations airlines try to keep the pax with the same airline in order not to lose revenue. Although moving an irreg pax from one *A carrier to another is possible without endorsement (ie you don't have to ask for permission first), the problem with TK is that they use a different CRS and availability shown to most *A carriers (who use the Amadeus CITP) shows phantom inventory. So moving the passenger to TK may often cause problems because the flight is oversold even though it still shows as available.
Most airlines refuse their fares to be plated with other carriers, as well as add clauses to discount fares that they are not combinable with other fares and carriers, this has nothing to do with *A.