Originally Posted by
Guy Betsy
VS like BA has a policy of not connecting baggage to another airline's booking if its on seperate tickets. Upper Class or not.
Worse case, yes, is to exit HK and recheck to your CX flight.
CX in HKG seems to have an unofficial policy of allowing passengers transiting HKG on separate tickets (arriving on another carrier and transferring to CX) to not have to exit the transit area to retrieve their bags and recheck-in on the the departures level.
All the pax needs to do is to go directly to the CX transfer desk to check-in for their onward flight and provide CX with their baggage tag receipt (with bag tagged up to HKG). CX would radio their baggage staff to arrange to have the bag retrieved (either from behind the scenes or from the baggage carousel of the arriving flight depending on timing), re-tagged (with the proper priority tags as well if the pax is eligible) and transferred to the CX flight.