United MileagePlus (Consolidated) - Transit in EWR

Im flying from Miami to London over Christmas and will make a 22 hour stop in Newark to do some last minute shopping. I wanted to know if United would allow me to check in my hold baggage all the way through to LHR as technically it is still a transit stop. I requested this stop so it was voluntary.
Many thanks
Mark

Im flying from Miami to London over Christmas and will make a 22 hour stop in Newark to do some last minute shopping. I wanted to know if United would allow me to check in my hold baggage all the way through to LHR as technically it is still a transit stop. I requested this stop so it was voluntary.
Many thanks
Mark

You will not be able to check your bags through to London because you will be checking in for your Miami flight more than 24 hours prior to your London flight. There is a service available at Newark where you can have bags stored offsite and it is not offered by United Airlines. You can get that information from the UA baggage service office in EWR though.

You will not be able to check your bags through to London because you will be checking in for your Miami flight more than 24 hours prior to your London flight. There is a service available at Newark where you can have bags stored offsite and it is not offered by United Airlines. You can get that information from the UA baggage service office in EWR though.

With reasonably sane layovers, it's very possible that one could construct a >24h itinerary. Is this really the rule for checked baggage on United? (I've definitely heard interlining stories of of >24h.)

Im flying from Miami to London over Christmas and will make a 22 hour stop in Newark to do some last minute shopping. I wanted to know if United would allow me to check in my hold baggage all the way through to LHR as technically it is still a transit stop. I requested this stop so it was voluntary.
Many thanks
Mark

probably not, but depending on the time you arrive in EWR you may simply be able to claim your bags from the first flight and immediately re-check them for the 2nd flight since you will then be inside the 24hr window (ticket agents will ask questions about why so early, but you should be fine). you'd be banking on UA to handle them correctly for 22 hours, but you also wouldn't be lugging them around or having to pay a 3rd party to store them.

You will not be able to check the bags all the way through. Not because you aren't within 24 hours of the next flight but because the layover is too long per UA policies on holding bags.

You will not be able to check them again immediately upon claiming them at EWR as United only accepts bags 3 or 4 hours in advance of travel with very few exceptions.

The baggage storage options at EWR are on-site in that they are on the airport grounds rather than off the property.

You will not be able to check the bags all the way through. Not because you aren't within 24 hours of the next flight but because the layover is too long per UA policies on holding bags.

What is the limit? Does it vary if the next airline is not UA?

Someone I know recently checked bags on UA (international, interline to another airline) with a ~12 hour layover.

You will not be able to check them again immediately upon claiming them at EWR as United only accepts bags 3 or 4 hours in advance of travel with very few exceptions.

What happens if someone is on an inbound international flight with a 4h+ connection? Does UA make you wait at the post-customs baggage check desk?

What is the limit? Does it vary if the next airline is not UA?It varies by airport IIRC but I think 12 hours is generally the number they work from fro UA->UA.

What happens if someone is on an inbound international flight with a 4h+ connection? Does UA make you wait at the post-customs baggage check desk?
That's not a problem if the bag is already tagged for the connection. But the company generally doesn't introduce new bags into the system earlier than that.

And, FWIW, UA does include this on one of their many baggage web pages (http://www.united.com/CMS/en-US/travel/Pages/BaggageCheck-in.aspx):

Baggage will be checked to a customer's final destination or to a permissible stopover for the fare paid. Customers making connections which involve an overnight stay must claim baggage at the intermediate point and re-check baggage for the connecting flight on the following day.

It varies by airport IIRC but I think 12 hours is generally the number they work from fro UA->UA.

Is there any way to find out (other than the hard way)?

That's not a problem if the bag is already tagged for the connection. But the company generally doesn't introduce new bags into the system earlier than that.

This would imply that the OP should be able to check bags through to LON. I'm confused, as that seems to contradict your earlier post in this thread, as well as UA's policy (see below).

And, FWIW, UA does include this on one of their many baggage web pages (http://www.united.com/CMS/en-US/travel/Pages/BaggageCheck-in.aspx):

Thanks, but that page has (IME) errors.

Customers making connections which involve an overnight stay must claim baggage at the intermediate point and re-check baggage for the connecting flight on the following day.

The person I know had an overnight stopover and was able to check bags to the final destination (this was < 100 hours ago) . I have done the same on pmCO (overnight stopover with through-checked bags).

Customers traveling to the U.S., China (except Beijing) and India, who are connecting to a domestic flight within any of those countries or to another international destination, must claim their luggage upon their arrival to the first port of entry and re-check it with the connecting airline.

This (from UA's site) is also not true. EWR-DEL-xxx (xxx not in India) did not require re-checking bags.