BA / Westjet booking on BA.com
Oct 15, 2019, 5:49 pm
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BA / Westjet booking on BA.com
Hey folks - apologies if I missed this on another thread, but a few months ago I was able to get an itinerary out of ba.com for a London to Halifax (Canada) trip, which gave options for a Toronto layover of a couple of hours and a connection to a Westjet flight for the rest of the way. At the time I wondered whether any such a booking would have a combined PNR and offer security just in case anything happened with either flights. I ended up postponing the booking.
Now, ba.com doesn’t give this option anymore, unfortunately. It brings an error that Halifax is not a destination BA flies to.
Does anyone know if the Westjet tie-up has seen its last days?
Now, ba.com doesn’t give this option anymore, unfortunately. It brings an error that Halifax is not a destination BA flies to.
Does anyone know if the Westjet tie-up has seen its last days?
Oct 15, 2019, 6:38 pm
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I don't know if they still interline with BA, but WS has been moving to a closer working relationship with SkyTeam airlines in the last year or so, so the BA connection may have been dropped.
Phone up BA and they can sell you a combined BA/Air Canada ticket to get you to YHZ. I have done both options of WS and AC combined with a BA ticket and the AC connection was smoother. From LHR, BA could through check my baggage to my final destination (served by AC) and issue me a boarding pass, while on WS they could only check for the BA flight, I had to go landside and recheck my bag at the WS connection point (YVR) as though I was a YVR originating passenger and also get my WS boarding pass.
Phone up BA and they can sell you a combined BA/Air Canada ticket to get you to YHZ. I have done both options of WS and AC combined with a BA ticket and the AC connection was smoother. From LHR, BA could through check my baggage to my final destination (served by AC) and issue me a boarding pass, while on WS they could only check for the BA flight, I had to go landside and recheck my bag at the WS connection point (YVR) as though I was a YVR originating passenger and also get my WS boarding pass.
Oct 15, 2019, 7:25 pm
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Westjet ended their codeshare agreement with BA a couple of years ago. They maintained the interline agreement, if you can no longer get ba.com to give you the connection to WS that you desire you should call and see if they will book it over the phone.
Oct 16, 2019, 3:00 am
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BA.com will only give you very specific married segments now that the codeshare agreement has been dropped. I have had similar problems getting to YLW, so now I’ve just given up and book separate flights from Calgary.
Phoning up might yield a better result as the last time I tried this, BA were still able to sell WS flights over the phone that weren’t necessarily listed on the website. However this did push the price up massively even though they were selling the cheapest WS tickets. I’ve found it’s cheaper to book separate tickets in a higher fare bucket with the ability to change.
As noted above, WS are aligning themselves with DL/KL/AF more & more
Phoning up might yield a better result as the last time I tried this, BA were still able to sell WS flights over the phone that weren’t necessarily listed on the website. However this did push the price up massively even though they were selling the cheapest WS tickets. I’ve found it’s cheaper to book separate tickets in a higher fare bucket with the ability to change.
As noted above, WS are aligning themselves with DL/KL/AF more & more