Originally Posted by Happy

Yes, another poster in the QF forum also tells me to get CX to add the QF flight to the oncarriage, so it will merge the 2 tickets together. The biggest advantage is, it then would protect me when CX delay causes a misconnect.

https://www.flyertalk.com/forum/30259927-post16.html

The worry I have is there might be misconnect due to CX105 has poor on time record. I did not realize it until 2 days ago I accidentally saw a 1.5 hr delay. Then I looked deeper on the flight's history and did not like what I saw.
The past 2 weeks on top of many 10 to 20 min delay, it has 4 sizable delays, 1 over 45 min, 1 over an hour, 1 at 1.5 hour on Sept 28, and then 3.5 hours! on Set 29! That is bothersome to me.

But if thru check could merge the 2 separate tickets together as you said, we would be viewed as "connecting" passengers, then the system will protect us should CX has significant delay on our day of travel.

I would love to read about your previous experiences but the link gave me "page not found" error both by using the shorten form or the full form.

EDIT
Found it by a different method. It happened in July so fairly recent data points.
Your experience reinforce what I am told by ozgirl747 on QF forum, the value in through check is not just getting the BP, but also seems to protect you on the connection if your misconnect is caused by CX's delay departure. It does seem that once the through check is done, you are viewed as "transfer" passengers in the "connecting" airline's system, and not an originating passenger.

You mentioned about getting a new BP, were you misconnected on the original flight and being put on a new flight? Or they still need MH issued BP instead of the CX issued BP?

Originally Posted by percysmith

Originally Posted by Happy

Why should I not like the answer?
I picked my MEL-BNE with 3.5 hr time gap that factored in a) the easy transfer from T2 to T1, b) non peak hour international arrival, and c) about an hour max delay of CX105...
The reality is, CX105 has poor on time record that I have not found out until, like, 3 days ago - a day after I booked the Avios ticket.

I know MEL is very easy to connect due to T1, 2 and 3 all in the same building, plus the Smartgate, also have the Express Path due to business class.
But you still have to arrive on schedule on the CX105. And that is the crux of the problem.

The determinant issue is CX105 often has delays. On Sept 28 it delayed 1.5 hrs. On Sept 29 it delayed 3.5 hrs. On Sept 19 it delayed 1 hr. Several 30 to 45 min delays in the past 20 days, plus the usual 10 to 20 min delays. On time departure is just 60%.

The night it delayed 3.5 hr was all mechanical snag according to a poster who told me he was on that flight. HKG airport operated perfectly fine. Most flights, CX and others departed within mins before or after their scheduled time during the time CX105 sat on the ground. There were only a few delays of other airlines but much shorter than CX105. Though Hong Kong airline had an outright cancel. So the air traffic had nothing to do with the habitual delays CX105 has demonstrated. Just that something does not work smoothly with this flight for whatever reasons because other CX longhaul flights depart at similar window dont have nearly as frequent delays.

During the past 2 weeks, the arrivals were all late, between 30min to 3.5 hrs late. If there are over 4 to 5 arrivals have over an hour or much more delay within 2 weeks period, that is too high a ratio to count on the on time arrival which your speedy connection depends on it.

The inbound flights to serve CX105 seem to be all over the places. Most often is from SIN or BKK. The huge delay on Sept 29, it was from SGN. Tonight's though, was from PER... These are per Flightaware. I dont know how accurate they are.

My travel day is 2nd week of Nov. Right now I dont feel good on the supposedly easy connection due to the poor on time record of CX105.

Originally Posted by percysmith

Wait.

My connecting flight is 1240, so I have 90 mins on CX105 not 100 min. Ouch.

Looking at the 7 days again, I see some 40 minute delays in the last two days. Would be a rush to belt it to domestic in T-30.

I've moved to the 1515 now. Fortunately there still seem to be seats on that on my day.

Originally Posted by ALGU

If I don't have oneworld status and I fly from HKG-LHR in CX First (award) and then LHR-KEF in BA Economy (cash, non-basic), I understand that CX will interline the the luggage but will I be able to check in a second piece without penalty due to the LHR-KEF leg only including one? I assume yes, but not with confidence as these are separate tickets.

Originally Posted by ernestnywang

Originally Posted by ALGU

Appreciate the DP!

Originally Posted by ALGU

If I don't have oneworld status and I fly from HKG-LHR in CX First (award) and then LHR-KEF in BA Economy (cash, non-basic), I understand that CX will interline the the luggage but will I be able to check in a second piece without penalty due to the LHR-KEF leg only including one? I assume yes, but not with confidence as these are separate tickets.

Originally Posted by pythonisman

Last week flew NRT-HKG-BRU (J / CX) - LHR (Y / BA "plus" fare) on separate tickets.
The check in agent at NRT happily checked our luggage all the way through including multiple pieces, after confirming that my QF status was sufficient to grant us an extra piece (by looking at BA's website). The nature of his checking (and from what he was typing into his terminal) definitely made it seem like they need to provide some justification for the override action, I expect if you're over your allowance then potentially CX are more likely to get dinged for any extra cost rather than you the end pax. !