Originally Posted by
newyorkgeorge
If I am reading you right, you arrive from DFW on AA and then go onto GRU on Avianca with a short meeting at GOES between. Not sure if AA can check your bag through to Avianca (others may know), hopefully AA can. If not, you will need to go downstairs to claim your bag. My suggestion is to first go to your GOES meeting, then quickly get your bag, and return to Concourse J. With a checked bag now, you will need to haul butt. Baggage claim at AA can be slow so while maybe your bag would be up the time you walk from the gate to baggage claim, if not, you will lose precious minutes.
Actually I fly thru MIA on AA - DFW-MIA-GRU. So I have to get from D/E to J (GOES office is by the Avianca counter), appt at 8:20 and depart 9:35 flight on AA Concourse D to GRU. Bags will be checked thru on AA, but I will have to exit security to get to my GOES appt. Just concerned about the walk between D/E and J, then back from J to D, plus going thru security.
Thanks everyone! I'm going to try to make it and if I'm not done at the TSA/GOES office by 9:00, then I'll head to D for my GRU flight.