Flight Connections

travelling2015

Hey,

Just have a question about flights I want to book for July.

Hoping to fly from Cork to Ndjamena (Chad) but when I go through KLM.com (or airfrance) it's taking me from Cork to Amsterdam, Amsterdam to Paris and the from Paris to Ndjamena. Why can't I just fly direct from Cork to Paris (with aerlingus - same as to amsterdam) and then Paris to Ndjamen? Seems like this would make a lot more sense than adding in the extra flight that is not needed. I would book the two flights (Cork-Paris and Paris-Ndjamena) separately but don't want to take the risk of missing the connection when it's such an expensive flight.

Is there anyway I can book from Cork to Ndjamena with just one secure transfer in Paris?

Thanks for your help.

steve-o

Unfortunately Air France / KLM don't offer a ticket that combines with Aer Lingus on that route, so if you want the security of a single ticket then you have to go via Amsterdam or fly from Dublin. It seems mad but that's how it is!

rbniner

travelling2015 wrote: »

Hey,

Just have a question about flights I want to book for July.

Hoping to fly from Cork to Ndjamena (Chad) but when I go through KLM.com (or airfrance) it's taking me from Cork to Amsterdam, Amsterdam to Paris and the from Paris to Ndjamena. Why can't I just fly direct from Cork to Paris (with aerlingus - same as to amsterdam) and then Paris to Ndjamen? Seems like this would make a lot more sense than adding in the extra flight that is not needed. I would book the two flights (Cork-Paris and Paris-Ndjamena) separately but don't want to take the risk of missing the connection when it's such an expensive flight.

Is there anyway I can book from Cork to Ndjamena with just one secure transfer in Paris?

Thanks for your help.

Although you fly to AMS on Aer Lingus metal, you would be on a KLM codeshare flight. There is no codeshare between Air France & Aer Lingus to CDG, and so the booking system can't "see" a valid routing ORK-CDG-NDJ.

As far as I'm aware the only way to get it all one booking is by going through AMS. The alternative is two separate tickets and leave sufficient layover time to ensure no issues.

andy_g

Moved to Travel Forum

Batgurl

A travel agent should be able to book you on a through ticket.

While AL and Air France don't codeshare, they do have an interline agreement so bags will be checked through and agent will be responsible for any missed connections etc

suds1984

A few years ago I wanted to fly cork to Lima through Amsterdam. I wasn't able to book it as one ticket through klm or neither was a travel agent. My options at the time was to travel from Dublin or else booked them as seperate tickets. I took the risk of the seperate tickets and it worked out for me as I left plenty of time in between but they is always a risk of delayed flights etc. cork to Paris flights leave later in day so might not always match up with the connecting flights. The joy of cork airport!!

travelling2015

Thanks for your help!

I find it strange that aerlingus, when flying into such a huge hub (CDG) that they don't have a codeshare agreement with airfrance or other airlines. Is their Cork-Pairs flight mainly aimed at point to point travel so? I would have thought that they could greatly increase demand if they offered connections on from Paris? Doesn't make much sense to me!!

travelling2015

Thanks for your help!

I find it strange that aerlingus, when flying into such a huge hub (CDG) that they don't have a codeshare agreement with airfrance or other airlines. Is their Cork-Paris flight mainly aimed at point to point travel so? I would have thought that they could greatly increase demand if they offered connections on from Paris? Doesn't make much sense to me!!

goingnowhere

Aer Lingus has both ticket and baggage interline agreements with Air France
http://www.aerlingus.com/travelinformation/airportservices/
http://www.aerlingus.com/travelinformation/baggageinformation/checkedbaggage/partnerairlines/

The problem is finding a way to issue a EI to AF ticket, need a really good agent. Problem is this may turn out to be horribly expensive

travelling2015

Ahh I see! Thanks for that! But if they have all these agreement with each other why don't they just sell tickets with connections from one airline to the other on their websites? Surely it would be win-win for both of them?

endofrainbow

travelling2015 wrote: »

Ahh I see! Thanks for that! But if they have all these agreement with each other why don't they just sell tickets with connections from one airline to the other on their websites? Surely it would be win-win for both of them?

Interline agreements are totally different to code-shares. IE and Air France/Klm/delta are members of different alliances so therefore cannot sell each other's tickets.

athtrasna

endofrainbow wrote: »

Interline agreements are totally different to code-shares. IE and Air France/Klm/delta are members of different alliances so therefore cannot sell each other's tickets.

Rather Air France, Klm and Delta are actually in an alliance (all Skyteam members) and Aer Lingus isn't in one since they left One World