Well, now you learn something - Qatar indeed can have F ticket does not have free checked bag, unless specifically included, on the partner award. The whole thing of this thread is NOT necessarily serving the purpose to warn people, but more of ranting on how badly you were treated by Qatar (the outstation staff who even have less power to do anything) and on how ridiculous it is, that an F ticket does not have checked bag allowance because "all your previous F flights did not have this issue." You dont ever think you are literally asking those folks to risk being punished just to help you out for a mistake caused by AA and also by you who fail to check the conditions of your ticket! When that backfires, the first thing we do, is not to look at WHY this happens, different from my "years and gazillions of flights in premium cabins", but immediately having an prejudice on the staff who "refuses to help me". The other bad habit we have, is generalization. Sometimes I do feel we the Americans do have the mentality of entitlement, hardly think from the other side's angle and be more considerate when all circumstances are taken into consideration. Would you bend the rule if you know the consequence would be, you being sent out the door?! Put you in their positions, if you bend the rules, because of "common sense" to serve the customer, but the customer's ticket is issued without free checked bag - then if such "assistance" be discovered, the person may lose his job. People just keep thinking about "common sense" for their own convenience, without any thought / consideration, on how the staff of the ME3 could be punished harshly if they are found not following the strict rules. Service quality aside, QR is notoriously strict with baggage allowance (and indeed any and all types of rules) with severe consequences for staff who fail to apply rules correctly, so I don't think it's all that surprising that the check-in agents would not go out of their way to solve the issue.This! If you had purchased a ticket from QR and there was an issue with the ticket, then QR would have been in a position to assist - of course it is also very unlikely that it would have had any problems with issuing a ticket for travel on QR and so the problem would not have existed in the 1st place The only airline that was causing a problem was AA by not correctly issuing a ticketĮxcess baggage fees are notoriously expensive The agents simply took position that you had no luggage allowace and that if you wanted to check luggage in you needed to pay - alternatively was up to you to get AA to fix the issue that it created The agensts saved you wasting even time byt not pandering to demands for QR contacts since the contact you had was with AA ( whether they were also uninterested is another matter ). The staff were disinterested, as they should be. This is not anything that QR was in a position to fix since tx. Perhaps, I was too optimistic.Your whole post was about how bad QR and how wonderful AA wasįor the QR staff, you turned up to check in with a ticket with zero baggage allowance. I was hopeful that this discussion here would provide others with some advanced warning to help avoid situations like mine. Though it can definitely be said, IT IS AA's ISSUE that its antiquated IT system caused that. So unfortunately somehow the issue comes back for unknown reasons. *Online payment available beginning 24 hours (and up to 4 hours) before departure Bag and optional fees If your flight is operated by a partner airline, see the other airline’s website for carry-on and checked bag policies. Additional allowances and/or discounts may apply. Maximum weight: 70 pounds or 32 kilogramsīag fees apply at each Check-in location. Maximum dimensions: 62 inches or 158 centimeters calculated as (length + width + height) I pulled up the email from AA in March 2022 for travel on QR in October, 2022, the checked bags info were at the bottom like this: It first came up Many Years Ago, Several Years Before Covid. The more astonishing part is, this issue is NOT NEW. Such crazy numbers were reported in the past when this issue happened. Is this a cargo rate or something?It is not normal but this is what Qatar rules are, because it is on a Weight-Based system. Is it really considered normal to be charged $1500+ for checked bags? I don’t understand that.
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