mallangong

Hi,

I will soon be flying from London to Kabul (via Dubai) every couple of months. I am keen to credit these flights into BA and understand this can be done if booked onto the relevant Qantas codeshare flight number. Unfortunately I am struggling to find any QF-EK codeshares on LON-DXB, let alone to KBL.

Can anyone help please?

Dave Noble

Unless you are heading Australia bound, you will likely need to simply book on the EK number and then credit to whatever scheme you think is best

mallangong

Hi Dave,

Thanks. But why is that? I have seen multiple references online that state the codeshares are not only for flights with an Australia component. Is that wrong?

Globaliser

No, because you can also book QF to DXB and EK to destinations like India and Pakistan - although you might not like the price if you were to try.

However, KBL is in neither India nor Pakistan, and there appear to be no valid fares for a routing that uses a QF "flight" from LHR to DXB en route to KBL.

nancypants

This is a question that comes up semi frequently. I think the answer is something along the lines of since QF aren’t flying into DXB anymore they only file through fares from Europe to Australia, so it’s possible to codeshare on the Europe-DXB leg but only in conjunction with a DXB-Australia leg, or something like that

edit: globaliser has more information as above

mallangong

Globaliser, nancypants,

Thank you both. I would consider doing LON-DXB on a QF flight number and then just adding the KBL leg on as a separate flight. But I am struggling even to find the LON-DXB flights on QF. Any tips on where/how I should look?

Globaliser

You certainly can't do that.

Or, more accurately, you can do LON-DXB and DXB-LON on QF, so long as you route one direction via Australia (LON-DXB, DXB-PER-LON for example).

Dave Noble

QF does not offer fares to Dubai - when it last did they were very expensive fares

What you are looking to do is not feasible - I would suggest just going ot the Emirates site and booking there since it lists plenty of fares for london to KBL

mallangong

Thank you all. Most helpful - I'll stick with Emirates and get to know their scheme.

ECR

As has been mentioned above it doesn't seem possible to book a direct return flight from LON to DXB anymore under the QF code. It was around 11 months ago when I last booked this and at the time was about £100 more than booking under an EK code. I think it wasn't long after that when the fares either got really expensive or disappeared altogether.

If you are just looking to collect miles https://www.wheretocredit.com/emirates suggests there are a number of frequent flyer schemes to which you could credit Emirates flights. Some of the carriers are in Oneworld, so the miles earned could perhaps be used on BA.

If looking to get status benefits then Emirates Skywards is probably your only option. I think Emirates miles can possibly also be used on Easyjet flights which might be of use if UK based.

Mwenenzi

As post above you can credit an EK marketed EK operated flight to QF ffp and other ffps. But there are better ffp's than QF.

Looking at old QF pdf timetables KBL was never offered as an EK-QF codeshare. Many other airports with EK but not KBL

ps107

Why don't you fly BA to Dubai?

Dave Noble

So many reasons come to mind

Flying BA or EK - not even a choice that needs thinking about imo

Also , would end up needing 2 separate tickets to get to Kabul I suspect

ps107

Makes it a lot easier to credit to BA though

Is the A350 no good?

Dave Noble

It is still BA which really strives for mediocrity - I would class miles crediting a long way behind quality and schedule