Hub City Missing on Qantas Airport List Pull-Down
Jul 14, 2017, 11:17 am
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Hub City Missing on Qantas Airport List Pull-Down
Can anybody advise me why Lima - Peru a LATAM - OneWorld Hub City does not show on Qantas site when selected for an originating Flight.
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Jul 14, 2017, 6:00 pm
#3
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In the case of Peru they have permission to sell tickets from Australia/New Zealand to Peru but they don't have permission to sell tickets from Peru to any other Qantas destinations.
Often the permission has to be gained from both the operating airline of the codeshare flight and the government/regulating body of the country involved.
It doesn't just happen to Qantas but an example that was recently in the media was Bali Tiger Air flights. Tiger Air has permission to sell return tickets from Australia to Bali and nothing else.
Jul 14, 2017, 6:27 pm
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Qantas (and every airline) have to get permission in order to sell tickets originating from a country.
In the case of Peru they have permission to sell tickets from Australia/New Zealand to Peru but they don't have permission to sell tickets from Peru to any other Qantas destinations.
Often the permission has to be gained from both the operating airline of the codeshare flight and the government/regulating body of the country involved.
It doesn't just happen to Qantas but an example that was recently in the media was Bali Tiger Air flights. Tiger Air has permission to sell return tickets from Australia to Bali and nothing else.
In the case of Peru they have permission to sell tickets from Australia/New Zealand to Peru but they don't have permission to sell tickets from Peru to any other Qantas destinations.
Often the permission has to be gained from both the operating airline of the codeshare flight and the government/regulating body of the country involved.
It doesn't just happen to Qantas but an example that was recently in the media was Bali Tiger Air flights. Tiger Air has permission to sell return tickets from Australia to Bali and nothing else.
Jul 15, 2017, 9:54 pm
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The Tiger Bali issue is not really compareable. Tiger were operating flights as a "charter", because they didn't have the approvals to operate RPT to Indonesia. A ticket for a charter flight must be a round trip, with no onward journey to other destinations.
Jul 19, 2017, 10:32 pm
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The history behind it is that when QF first built qantas.com it allowed web site users to request cities to add to the drop-down list. Which led to hot destinations like Papa Westray to be added to the QF drop-down list -- until QF realized there were thousands of such airports and it was running out of real estate. List was frozen and then trimmed down, ending up with a somewhat irrational pull-down that we have today (and forever more). Listening to customers leads to fine solutions (or not), esp. on the web. You would think there would be a Oneworld key city list that all the Oneworld airlines use, but that's not the Oneworld way.
Jul 20, 2017, 7:13 am
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The history behind it is that when QF first built qantas.com it allowed web site users to request cities to add to the drop-down list. Which led to hot destinations like Papa Westray to be added to the QF drop-down list -- until QF realized there were thousands of such airports and it was running out of real estate. List was frozen and then trimmed down, ending up with a somewhat irrational pull-down that we have today (and forever more). Listening to customers leads to fine solutions (or not), esp. on the web. You would think there would be a Oneworld key city list that all the Oneworld airlines use, but that's not the Oneworld way.
I wrote to QFF numerous times over the past decade asking for some cities (most are hubs or major gateways) to be added to no avail.