Originally Posted by
Xiaotung
When NZ became the first alliance member to introduce fares with no bags, *A told them that if there was another *A carrier involved on the same ticket, they must honour extra *G baggage allowance. This is very different from what you describe. Other carriers understand this very well except NZ.
Do you know what an end-on-end is? If you did, you would see that it's not different at all. An end-on-end is where one carrier's fare is sold on the stock of another carrier in conjunction with that other carrier's own fare. In this case, the passenger had booked AKL-LHR-FRA but instead of issuing a NZ BP AKL-LHR-FRA fare, the 'system' issued a single ticket with two separate fares - an NZ AKL-LHR BP fare plus a LH LHR-FRA Y Light fare (which being on 086 stock is an end-on-end). The point of the matter is that even though an LH Light fare does not include any checked luggage, because it was issued on the same ticket as another *A carrier, they had to accept luggage without charge. Additionally, because of USDOT and MSC rules as well as *G luggage benefits, they had to accept a total of 4 bags, all because a system error issued a zero-bag fare on the same ticket as another *A carrier.