Originally Posted by
pacificboot
So does that mean that for a AA to BA connection with baggage, and on two different PNR, and if you bags are checked to your final destination, and if you don't show baggage receipts to BA, that means the bags don't arrive to your final destination?
I am asking this because I had an above scenario over March this year, and it was lost... well, It arrived 6 months late, but damaged and empty. Is it because BA offloaded my bags because I didn't show them the receipts?
in this scenario, the bags would have been forwarded to BA and the appropriate flight but as you had not shown the bag tag numbers, nothing would have been entered into your PNR record and the BA baggage handlers would have had no idea whose bag it is or why it is with them and not loaded it onboard the aircraft. In LHR, due to DfT security guidelines (think EL AL potential bombing, Pan Am lockerbie), bags should only be loaded if the bag tags are loaded into the system and cross reference against the bag tag numbers held on a PNR. if the passenger fails to board, the lugguge comes off. if the passenger has no tag numbers, no bag is loaded even if showing 2 checked in etc.
after your flight departed, BA would have been left wondering whose bags they are and then probably sent them back to AA who probably sent them back to BA to forward to you and eventually got lost in the system for six months.