Australia1 From , joined Dec 1969, posts, RR: Posted (6 years 4 months 3 weeks 1 day 19 hours ago) and read 2344 times:
Hi,
Is anyone able to look into loads all classes
14FEB BNE/LAX QF175 nonstop
26FEB LAX/BNE QF176 nonstop
Thanks in advance !!!
Andrew
PS. re AA2261/QF3290 connecting to QF176 26FEB
CRS shows this as best connection with 2 hours 45 minutes at LAX if on time. In light of recent delays at DEN, is this enough connecting time at LAX zoo.
Last time we did this flight in FEB, AA at DEN issued 2 boarding passes DEN/LAX & LAX/BNE, but at LAX, security would not accept AA boarding pass LAX/BNE & told to go to QF check in with huge queue & get a QF boarding pass !!!
Does anyone know what that was all about ?
& does this nonscience still exist ?
We have a few hundred clients doing this exact route in the next 3 months & wanted to advise them, is this is likely to occur.
Alaskaqantas From New Zealand, joined Dec 2005, 900 posts, RR: 5 Reply 1, posted (6 years 4 months 3 weeks 1 day 19 hours ago) and read 2313 times:
Quoting Australia1 (Thread starter): In light of recent delays at DEN, is this enough connecting time at LAX zoo.
It should be enough.
Quoting Australia1 (Thread starter): Is anyone able to look into loads all classes
14FEB BNE/LAX QF175 nonstop
26FEB LAX/BNE QF176 nonstop
Sorry I can't help you there since I don't work for QF, but I would imagine that it wouldn't be chock full since the USA is still in school and NZ/Aussie will be back in school.
Quoting Australia1 (Thread starter): would not accept AA boarding pass LAX/BNE & told to go to QF check in with huge queue & get a QF boarding pass !!!
hmmm... when ever we fly with QF we don't do it with AA so I can't say for certain, but for instance when we got AKL-LAX then LAX-SEA-ANC with AS. In LAX the domestic security always accepts our tickets from Qantas (for the AS flights)even though its not a QF flight.
I would say that this shouldn't be a problem, but call AA and get confirmation from them... or give them an e-mail and if they reply that its fine print it out and keep it with you as proof.
Enjoy your flight... can we expect a trip report? (what class?)
~Cheers-
~~Kyle H.
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Eoinnz From New Zealand, joined Jul 2003, 226 posts, RR: 0 Reply 3, posted (6 years 4 months 3 weeks 1 day 18 hours ago) and read 2279 times:
Hi Australia1
I went to check the loadings on your flights but the system showed some rather strange figures.The aircraft that operates this route has 56 business class seats and 356 economy seats. No first class on this route.
However this is what the system shows:
QF175 14FEB is showing 470 spare economy seats and 59 spare business class seats.
QF176 26FEB is showing 254 spare economy seats and 65 spare business class seats. While the economy loadings are possibly correct the business class load is wrong.
Sorry I can't be of more help at the moment. I'll check again in a few days and hopefully the system will show the correct loadings and I can send them to you via a message.
777STL From United States of America, joined Dec 2004, 3036 posts, RR: 3 Reply 5, posted (6 years 4 months 3 weeks 1 day 17 hours ago) and read 2243 times:
Quoting Australia1 (Thread starter): Last time we did this flight in FEB, AA at DEN issued 2 boarding passes DEN/LAX & LAX/BNE, but at LAX, security would not accept AA boarding pass LAX/BNE & told to go to QF check in with huge queue & get a QF boarding pass !!!
That's normally the way it works, I don't believe QF will accept AA boarding passes, it has to be on QF ticket stock. With AA anyway, you normally have to recheck in/have new boarding passes printed up at the QF counter.
Quoting Australia1 (Thread starter): CRS shows this as best connection with 2 hours 45 minutes at LAX if on time. In light of recent delays at DEN, is this enough connecting time at LAX zoo.
Lincoln From United States of America, joined Nov 2004, 3887 posts, RR: 8 Reply 8, posted (6 years 4 months 3 weeks 1 day 15 hours ago) and read 2156 times:
Not speaking about LAX in particular, but in general it's a TSA-ism, if you stand your ground or request a supervisor you can usually convince them that you When doing a NW to DL connection at DTW (before DL moved), with NW issued boarding pases I wound up getting into several intertwined debates with the agent....
At first the agent tried telling me I was at the wrong terminal "The boarding pass says 'Northwest'. Northwest isn't in this terminal" (To which I pointed out that the flight number started with "DL" which was Delta, and I was in the right terminal...and presumably the person who handed me the boarding pass with 'Northwest' printed on it told me that I needed to change terminals instead of me voluntarially hiking between the two.
Then it turned into "The name on your boarding pass doesn't match the name on your ID"... Well, DUH. My last name is King-Cliby; airline reservation systems don't do hyphens, so it's always ticketed as KINGCLIBY. Aparently this person didn't think that Lincoln King-Cliby and KINGCLIBY/LINCOLN were the same person. (Yeah, there are hundreds of us King-Clibys running around...)
By this time a supervisor got involved and I went through without any further hassle...
Ok, there's my TSA rant for today.
Lincoln
CO Is My Airline of Choice || Baggage Claim is an airline's last chance to disappoint a customer || Next flts in profile
777STL From United States of America, joined Dec 2004, 3036 posts, RR: 3 Reply 9, posted (6 years 4 months 3 weeks 1 day 14 hours ago) and read 2148 times:
Onedude From United States of America, joined Apr 2005, 214 posts, RR: 0 Reply 11, posted (6 years 4 months 3 weeks 1 day 1 hour ago) and read 1965 times:
Quoting Eoinnz (Reply 3): However this is what the system shows:
QF175 14FEB is showing 470 spare economy seats and 59 spare business class seats.
QF176 26FEB is showing 254 spare economy seats and 65 spare business class seats. While the economy loadings are possibly correct the business class load is wrong.
Hi - it sounds like you have checked the loads in the Qantas Staff Travel website. Basically, QF oversell LAX due to a higher no-show factor than most other ports, so the numbers above indicate how many seats they are prepared to sell including the no-show factor. As a result, the QF staff travel website quite often shows available seats when there in fact, might not be.
It's quite normal for QF to have up to 100 no-shows on LAX flights.
The best days to travel to the US on QF are Tuesdays (lightest loads) and same ex LAX. If that's not possible, try to avoid the weekend peak as I have seen many tears and offloads on these days.
Aussie747 From Australia, joined Aug 2003, 1161 posts, RR: 0 Reply 13, posted (6 years 4 months 3 weeks 21 hours ago) and read 1919 times:
Quoting Koruman (Reply 7): Enjoy your holiday, simpilicity.
By the way, does the quicker non-stop service on Qantas BNE-LAX really make up for the inferior product compared with the one-stop NZ 6 via Auckland?
What do you mean inferior product? They still offer skybed in J class. along with PTV's in all classes, and a strong change AVOD (all 744's should be completed by MARCH with AVOD).
N1120A From United States of America, joined Dec 2003, 25852 posts, RR: 79 Reply 14, posted (6 years 4 months 3 weeks 20 hours ago) and read 1914 times:
Quoting Australia1 (Thread starter): CRS shows this as best connection with 2 hours 45 minutes at LAX if on time. In light of recent delays at DEN, is this enough connecting time at LAX zoo.
That is more than enough time Simplicity
Quoting Australia1 (Thread starter): Last time we did this flight in FEB, AA at DEN issued 2 boarding passes DEN/LAX & LAX/BNE, but at LAX, security would not accept AA boarding pass LAX/BNE & told to go to QF check in with huge queue & get a QF boarding pass !!!
That person was an idiot. If anything, if you really needed that, you should be able to go through to the gate and have QF print you up a new one. That AA boarding pass should absolutely be recognized by "security" as legitimate.
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FlyboyOz From Australia, joined Nov 2000, 1893 posts, RR: 28 Reply 15, posted (6 years 4 months 3 weeks 20 hours ago) and read 1902 times:
Well...it's normal and it has been around for long time. Lots of foreign airlines in US always asked pax to get foreign airlines' boarding pass from US airlines such AA, UA, NW, CO and DL. Qantas and Air New Zealand also do the same things.
Australia1 From , joined Dec 1969, posts, RR: Reply 16, posted (6 years 4 months 2 weeks 6 days 20 hours ago) and read 1819 times:
Quoting FlyboyOz (Reply 15): Well...it's normal and it has been around for long time. Lots of foreign airlines in US always asked pax to get foreign airlines' boarding pass from US airlines such AA, UA, NW, CO and DL. Qantas and Air New Zealand also do the same things.
yes of course, but why aren't these boarding passes accepted by U.S. so called, security ?
Lincoln From United States of America, joined Nov 2004, 3887 posts, RR: 8 Reply 17, posted (6 years 4 months 2 weeks 6 days 18 hours ago) and read 1797 times:
Quoting Australia1 (Reply 16): yes of course, but why aren't these boarding passes accepted by U.S. so called, security ?
Because security is generally ignorant and easily confused. If you are persistant, in my experience, they will be accepted. You may have to be a little more agressive than you would like, but...
Lincoln
CO Is My Airline of Choice || Baggage Claim is an airline's last chance to disappoint a customer || Next flts in profile
Curmudgeon From Australia, joined Oct 2006, 695 posts, RR: 22 Reply 19, posted (6 years 4 months 2 weeks 6 days 17 hours ago) and read 1768 times:
Quoting Australia1 (Reply 10): We're not on the flight yet, but it sounds very empty, so should get on. Don't know for sure, but we may be on subload tickets.
This is the same guy who has ridiculous comments against QF every thread? The same guy who professes his hatred of QF? And you are trying for an ID90?
Airnewzealand From New Zealand, joined Oct 2000, 2538 posts, RR: 6 Reply 21, posted (6 years 4 months 2 weeks 4 days 20 hours ago) and read 1655 times:
AC: 744 (2)
14Feb: J/58 Y/273 Staff:0
AC: 744 (2)
26Feb: J/66 Y/237 Staff:2
these loads are as of 8 JAN 07.
Hope that helps.
If you are travelling on a FOC ticket, it is not space avaliable. You will have a seat as FOC seats have black-out dates.
If you are travelling on a FOC ticket, it is not space avaliable. You will have a seat as FOC seats have black-out dates.
CHeers
thanks.
Wow these flights are really empty !!!
Are these numbers, unticketed seats, or available for sale or unbooked seats ?
Amazing that QF does offer some better deals out there, like UA were offering (FYI- UA offered some incredible early birds to anywhere in USA around May for departures NOV-MAR & seems to have made a lot of people who might have otherwsie flown the nonstops BNE/LAX fly UA instead).
I wish we had Priceline.com here (ie. for flights ex OZ). I hear some travel agents in the USA do very well out of Priceline, ie. buy tix for clients & then add a decent fee.
Best QF fare we can find at present BNE/DEN return for above dates is about AUD$1440 + taxes/charges, whereas UA sold as low as AUD$980 via SYD, but inc. QF BNE/SYD/BNE.
unfortunately have got seats yet. It's all about meeting QF targets, which I believe, we're very close to.
Airnewzealand From New Zealand, joined Oct 2000, 2538 posts, RR: 6 Reply 23, posted (6 years 4 months 2 weeks 4 days 6 hours ago) and read 1583 times:
To answer some of your questions Australia1...
When operating these flights, these numbers are most unusual as they are usually full to the brim bar JC.
QF are currently having a bit of an advertising blitz in the states, so the seats may fill up soon.
As for the fares, that low compared to SYD and MEL... they usually go for up in the 1800-2000 AUD range, though you do get the service you pay for!!
Hope you enjoy your flights with us!
Cheers
PS: These numbers are fial figures, as of this date but here may be seats on hold...which we cn not tell as they are also included in those numbers.
Australia1 From , joined Dec 1969, posts, RR: Reply 24, posted (6 years 4 months 2 weeks 3 days 15 hours ago) and read 1518 times:
Quoting Airnewzealand (Reply 23): When operating these flights, these numbers are most unusual as they are usually full to the brim bar JC.
just spoke to an associate we do business with, who flew BNE/LAX nonstop in Feb 06 & said flight was completely empty (like 50-80 people on whole aircraft !!!)
He gave me the impression, that most flights in FEB are empty & that QF no longer seems to match UA's low fares. UA was doing BNE, SYD or MEL for under AUD$1000 + taxes/charges (with 25% off for kids 2-11) for low season departures up to 9DEC & from 1FEB to 31MAR, on a nett wholesale basis (had to be packaged with something like AUD$400 ground content/person).
Apparently, many of the UA seats on this deal sold & perhaps, the price sensitive market all went to UA, leaving QF flights E M P T Y !!!
25 Airnewzealand: You could be quite right Australia1, but the fact remains that QF make MEGA MEGA profits out of MEL/SYD without having to even budge to dropping fares
26 AznCSA4QF744ER: That’s not true. You can board a QF flights with AA boarding pass. It’s call OneWorld alliance. The same goes for Qantas on AA. Often time gate a
27 Australia1: U missed the point ... flights in FEB out of BNE, SYD & MEL on QF to west coast apparently all have very poor loads. UA got in early & did incredible
28 Airnewzealand: I think we both missed each others points... QF out of SYD and MEL and even AKL is jam packed all of FEB so i have no idea where you are getting your
29 Australia1: We think your wrong about loads out of SYD, MEL & AKL, but will check tomorrow !!!
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