- EVERY Domestic QF flight is codeshare with JQ.
- Qantas Domestic Pty Ltd has a contract based on Team Jetstar conditions.
cokecropduster -
Neither of those is true. You have been listening to the ill-informed loafer wearing wannabe mother's club.
Few Qantas domestic services are code-shared with Jetstar. The codeshare flights are open as 'freesale' codeshare to Jetstar customers direct connecting to or from a Jetstar operated international flight. In comparison, almost ALL Jetstar operated flights have a QF code.
Freesale codeshare means that the seat only becomes used by JQ as required. You would be hard pressed to find many JQ customers on any given flight. This information is available on the boarding computer, just by pushing a few buttons.
Originally we could tell which customers were 'sold as JQ'. However the notation was removed due to the unprofessional elitism of our colleagues. (I wish these crew knew how stupid they looked, it was so embarrassing!)
You cannot go on the Jetstar website and book a JQ seat on QF metal, where the QF flight is the only flight booked (ie. QF575/JQ6575 SYD-PER). This is true - try it for yourself. The idea of a pax paying $59 through the JQ website and the next pax paying $219 on the QF website for the same flight is preposterous.
The whole 'Jetstar codeshare' complex is as pathetic as it is elitist.
I am also finding it hard to draw many similarities between the QD contract and the Team JQ contract, apart from the fact they are B-scale. The structure of pay is vastly different, for example.