QF cutting AKL - LAX
Feb 28, 2012, 1:56 pm
#91
Join Date: Mar 2003
Location: SYD
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Your bag should be tagged all the way to DSM if the domestic legs are all on AA. You only need to pick them up at LAX to go through Customs and drop them off again just before you officially get to landside.
Feb 28, 2012, 4:29 pm
#92
Join Date: May 2009
Location: Auckland
Programs: QF FF, Velocity, NZ FF
Posts: 134
Fantastic...I thought so. Despite being a frequent flyer I've never had to connect long-haul before oddly enough...always just gone AKL-LAX-AKL or BNE-HKG-BNE etc...
Feb 28, 2012, 5:25 pm
#93
Join Date: Sep 2010
Location: Wellington
Programs: QF (WP), NZ (KC), IHG Ambassador
Posts: 146
As advised by another poster your luggage will checked through, so at SYD go through the International Connections security check. DO NOT take the escalator up, but look for the lift, which is over to the right. This will take you up 2 floors to where the QF lounges are. As you are on the 747, then this means you will have about an hour to have breakfast and get refreshed for the leg to LAX.
Feb 29, 2012, 9:52 pm
#94
Join Date: Feb 2005
Location: KSPB
Programs: AS, HH, UA, IHG
Posts: 76
Does anyone know what the level of options for rerouting is? We are on a AS J award to AKL in October. The automatic reroute put us on QF108 with a 45 min connection to QF55 which seems like too tight of a connection for comfort.
Ideally I'd like to commence travel a day earlier as we a now losing the better part of a day connecting through Oz. QF12 or routing through BNE or MEL might work also.
I've been pressed for time since this discovery and have only managed one call to AS. I had to accidentally disconnect as the agent insisted that she had to find U availability and didn't grasp that all U was long gone on 20 Feb when the reaccomodation occurred.
Any help appreciated as I'd like to have a solution in hand before calling back as the Gold desk isn't what it used to be.
Ideally I'd like to commence travel a day earlier as we a now losing the better part of a day connecting through Oz. QF12 or routing through BNE or MEL might work also.
I've been pressed for time since this discovery and have only managed one call to AS. I had to accidentally disconnect as the agent insisted that she had to find U availability and didn't grasp that all U was long gone on 20 Feb when the reaccomodation occurred.
Any help appreciated as I'd like to have a solution in hand before calling back as the Gold desk isn't what it used to be.
Mar 1, 2012, 12:26 am
#95
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If you misconnect, then QF will rebook you onto another service to AKL.
As far as whether they will rebook a day earlier, I wouldn't know but I wouldn't hold my breath but only way to know is to phone and ask.
Mar 1, 2012, 12:48 am
#96
Join Date: Oct 2003
Location: Sydney, AU.
Programs: QF. UA. Avis. AMEX.
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They should rebook you a day earlier. You just need to explain that you need to be in AKL by a specific time, hence your original booking. However, as you need U availability this would be problematic and you will need to get an AS agent who is willing and able to send a message to QF asking them to fix the booking.
Mar 1, 2012, 3:22 am
#97
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Results from ExpertFlyer.com
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Connecting Cities: Connecting at SYD Incoming airline QF Outgoing airline QF Flight type International to International STANDARD.D/D...D/I...I/D...I/I. ONLINE .30 1.00 1.15 1.00 OFFLINE .30 1.00 1.15 1.00 ** OR * ARE ALL QF-QF II 1.30 FLT 1 - 199 - FLT 321 TRM 1 - 1 QF-QF II 1.30 FLT 300 - 399 - FLT 321 TRM 1 - 1 QF-QF II 1.40 FLT 368 - ALL TRM 1 - 1 QF-QF II 2.00 FLT 376 - ALL TRM 1 - 1 QF-QF II 1.15 ALL - FLT 301 QF-QF II 1.15 ALL - FLT 319 QF-QF II 2.00 FLT 200 - 299 - FLT 300 - 399 TRM 1 - 1 QF-QF II 2.00 FLT 300 - 399 - FLT 200 - 299 TRM 1 - 1 QF-QF II 1.00 ALL - FLT 200 - 299 TRM 1 - 1 QF-QF II 1.00 TRM 1 - 1 **-QF II 1.30 ALL - FLT 301 **-QF II 1.30 ALL - FLT 319 **-QF II 2.00 ALL - FLT 200 - 299 TRM 1 - 1 **-QF II 1.00 TRM 1 - 1 QF-** II 2.00 FLT 200 - 299 - ALL TRM 1 - 1
Mar 1, 2012, 3:26 am
#98
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Mar 1, 2012, 6:52 am
#99
Join Date: May 1998
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They should rebook you a day earlier. You just need to explain that you need to be in AKL by a specific time, hence your original booking. However, as you need U availability this would be problematic and you will need to get an AS agent who is willing and able to send a message to QF asking them to fix the booking.
We were originally booked using AA awards LAX-AKL-BNE-CNS in J. After LAX-AKL was cancelled, QF somewhat blindly replaced that segment with two (via SYD), resulting in LAX-SYD-AKL-BNE-CNS!
AA was able to remove the side trip to AKL, but of course could not get us on LAX-BNE due to a lack of U availability.
I contacted QF to ask for advice and they said they were protecting people "on the most direct route" but AA had to be the ones to ask. I explained this to an AA CSR, who typed in a long note and sent it to AA's partner desk that deals with QF.
Two days later (yesterday) it was a done deal, including reissued tickets and seats in the upper cabin assigned.
Mar 1, 2012, 11:09 pm
#101
Join Date: Apr 2006
Location: BNE
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, sources should always be quoted if the information is to be authoritative IMHO.
Mar 2, 2012, 12:29 am
#102
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I disagree; citing a source is one thing and providing a link to the source is a good thing, but this was not a link to a source but simply a link to a commercial site ( just like the annoying links put in by ppl for KVS ) . If the link ( as per EF above ) could be used to prove the information I would have a different view
Mar 3, 2012, 7:40 pm
#103
Join Date: May 2009
Location: Auckland
Programs: QF FF, Velocity, NZ FF
Posts: 134
As advised by another poster your luggage will checked through, so at SYD go through the International Connections security check. DO NOT take the escalator up, but look for the lift, which is over to the right. This will take you up 2 floors to where the QF lounges are. As you are on the 747, then this means you will have about an hour to have breakfast and get refreshed for the leg to LAX.
Mar 3, 2012, 8:40 pm
#104
Join Date: May 2009
Location: Auckland
Programs: QF FF, Velocity, NZ FF
Posts: 134
Actually *if* I had known I was going to be re-routed I would have booked J quite frankly or PE for the AKL-SYD-LAX portion. Mind you as PE wasn't available on AKL-LAX (A332) there wasn't much chance of me doing that in the first place...and I don't mind Y on the A332 but now with the AKL-SYD and SYD-LAX legs being 738 and 744 I would have booked much higher. Oh well...pity I don't have a crystal ball 
Mar 7, 2012, 11:05 pm
#105
Join Date: Feb 2005
Location: KSPB
Programs: AS, HH, UA, IHG
Posts: 76
Mixed results. Qantas were unwilling to allow us to travel a day earlier (dep LAX on Sat 10/20). They did move us from QF108 to QF12 so at least we'll have chance to stop into the lounge in SYD for few minutes.