ozflygirl747

US airlines have allowed pax to pre-allocate seats at the time of reservation for some time now so pax in the US are used to the idea hence not as many will leave it until OLCI or at the airport to have their seats assigned. A large percentage of the travelling public in Oz still think that OLCI at T-24 is the first chance they have of choosing a seat.

Australia has its fair share of the 'Kettles' who just assume that because Ma & Pa are in the same pnr/booked 6 months ago, or whatever it's somehow an ironclad guarantee they'll be seated together on the flight. Plenty of elites don't bother either and just assume that because they've got an aisle/window seat request in their profile that it's a sure bet they'll get such a seat. Even when told they can pre-allocate a seat once a booking is made they still aren't interested in being pro-active and insist that they've never had a problem getting their preferred seat in the past because the request is in their profile.

CX will through check again to other OW airlines on separate tickets. They initially jumped on the 'can't interline on separate tickets' bandwagon with many other airlines when the OW interline changes took effect back in 2016 but have since done a backflip and will now do it again. You don't need to tell CX you're not checking in luggage, just ask them to add in your oncarriage at checkin to facilitate the boarding pass issue for the QF connecting flight then when asked how many bags you're checking in you can then tell them none. If you tell CX straight up you're not checking in bags they may not see the need to add the oncarriage however you need them to do this so you're protected if the CX flight is late and need to be reaccommodated on a later QF MEL/BNE flight.

Don't worry about it - I wouldn't spend any money changing the MEL/BNE to later. If CX add the QF flight in as oncarriage and through check you it will merge the CX & QF flight in your altea checkin record so if CX is late resulting in you misconnecting they'll rebook you. Sometimes QF may do that automatically, other times it's the responsibility of the inbound carrier who was late ie CX to rebook your new onward flight.

Happy

Are you talking about T1 or T2?

QF site said T1 is of limit usage, and limit guest during 2 periods of the day because the renovation. It also suggests the Grab and Go option for members.

What are the "everything else"?

BTW, traveling time is 2nd week of Nov.

Happy

Thank You very much ozflygirl747, I do not know you can add the QF flight to the CX reservation this way!

Most importantly you said that in case CX delay has caused misconnect, then we would be protected because it is added to the oncarriage... This is entirely a NEW knowledge to me.

Given CX has 3 flights a day between MEL and HKG, it is not too much hassle to get CX counter to resolve the misconnect should that happen, IF the oncarriage method works.

In other words we would be better off to thru check our carryons even though not necessary, just for the benefit of adding the QF segment to the oncarriage?

What is "altea checkin record" ?

EDIT - Get it, it is the check in software that handles the check in process, print BPs and luggage tags...

Have you personally experienced this before? Or you are in the industry so to speak?

This sounds too good to be true but if it works this way, this is a GEM that you give us.

og

Happy

Thanks for clarification. Appreciate it.