One of the great things about Emirates is that they offer complimentary chauffeur service to all premium cabin passengers at virtually all their destinations, regardless of whether they're on an award ticket or not. Now that Emirates and Qantas have a huge joint venture going, it's not surprising that Qantas added the same on their…
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Works only on Qantas-issued tickets, though, so AA award tickets are not eligible for this.
@ Rohan -- While that does seem to be in the T&Cs, I had no problem booking the service for an upcoming Qantas flight issued on American ticket stock.
Please let us know how it works out ... I have the same question for AA Qantas award in February. Sure hope it works! I thought the #17 "complimentary tix" or #1 (081 tiket number) would rule us out. This would be awesome!!
While this is great overall, it's rotten that they extend it to QF107/108 at LAX but not at JFK, where the flight terminates. I'm an Aussie living in NYC and it seems a bit perverse to offer it to the passengers who get off in LA but not to those of us who take the flight the whole way. Harumph.
Sweet...should come in handy next May for our A380 F trip LAX-MEL.
I'm sure loving that BA Gold status in combination with 700,000 Avios, AA EXP status, and 1.5 million AA miles. 😉 Thanks bmi!
Worked like a charm on my upcoming (next week) AA award on the QF A380 F outbound, 747 J back. I agree with Josh that it's a shame that they don't offer it at JFK.
Thanks Ben for your awesome blog!
Probably more accurate to say "on select US routes" versus "all US routes" ... QF service to JFK does not include this service.