Baggage drop question
Nov 9, 2016, 8:06 pm
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Baggage drop question
If I have a World Club ticket AMS-LHR-KUL-BKK and I'm at Heathrow earlier the same day would they allow me to check in my bags there to save me taking them to to Schiphol with me?
Nov 9, 2016, 8:10 pm
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Reports vary. Some agents allow it, some do not. So you best have a plan B just in case, which probably means checking the bag into the left luggage facilities available in the arrival areas of both T3 and T5. Other options exist (use a friend, use a hotel, car boot etc).
Nov 10, 2016, 2:02 pm
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Nov 10, 2016, 2:10 pm
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If you do try to check in for the LH before flying to AMS only show your KUL boarding pass and don't mention AMS.
Nov 11, 2016, 1:52 am
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Nov 11, 2016, 2:19 am
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Jan 19, 2017, 6:36 pm
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When I arrived at LHR I asked the very kind check in person if they would just check my bags from LHR to BKK, via KUL, and they said no problem.
I had the same problem on the way back. Asked at BKK if my bags could just be checked to LHR but told impossible. When I got to LHR and asked BA ground staff if they could help they said no the only option was for me to collect my bags in AMS. So I announced I was ill and would not be travelling to Schiphol that day and was told my bags would appear at belt 8. Collected bags and placed them in the left luggage place at terminal 5. Went upstairs to the check in desks and declared myself well enough to fly and checked in again.
Thanks to those who gave advice above.
I had the same problem on the way back. Asked at BKK if my bags could just be checked to LHR but told impossible. When I got to LHR and asked BA ground staff if they could help they said no the only option was for me to collect my bags in AMS. So I announced I was ill and would not be travelling to Schiphol that day and was told my bags would appear at belt 8. Collected bags and placed them in the left luggage place at terminal 5. Went upstairs to the check in desks and declared myself well enough to fly and checked in again.
Thanks to those who gave advice above.
Last edited by thinkingallowed; Jan 19, 2017 at 9:53 pm