Originally Posted by
jmphoto
From reading this thread can I just clarify one thing?
My mum is currently in New York, and has a separately booked AA leg from JFK to LAX, and then onto a QF LAX-SYD-ADL. Can she just check the bags straight through to ADL from JFK at check-in, or does she need to contact QF to arrange?
She has no status, but is a QP, and has 2 bags. Will she have to pay the regular domestic bag charges to LAX or is it waived if it is interlined to ADL? Or actually, IIRC, she will clear customs at SYD, and then re-check at transfer to ADL?
I had a look on AA Australian site & found the following under Travel Information, then Baggage Allowance:
The maximum amount of baggage each ticketed passenger is allowed free of charge is 2 pieces checked and one carry-on. The size limitation of your luggage is calculated by adding the total outside dimensions of each bag, that is, length + width + height.......
USA Domestic Baggage Allowance
When the USA domestic flights are issued on the same ticket as the international sectors, American Airlines domestic baggage allowance is 2 x 23kgs bags per person. If the domestic ticket is issued separately to the international ticket and travel on the domestic flight is outside of 24 hours from the international sectors the first and second checked baggage fee will apply. The checked baggage fees are:
1st check baggage fee USD25.00
2nd check baggage fee USD35.00
Exceptions to the fee are:
Customers who have a domestic flight within 24 hours of the international sector (regardless of how the ticket is issued, cross-referenced or not)
Customers ticketed in Y, B and H inventory
If there is a mix of inventories on connecting flights, the charge will not apply to any portion of that one-way if any one of the inventories is exempt.....
So, if your Mum is in LAX less than 24 hours, I would read this as that AA will allow 2 Bags, they will tag the bags through to ADL, & will interline to QF. She will have to collect her bags & clear Customs in SYD, then drop off the bags & catch the free bus near Gate 1 to Dom Terminal.
She will probably have to get the boarding passes for LAX SYD ADL in LAX at the QF counter at TBIT. They'll take note of her baggage tag numbers.
On the way home QF will interline & tag through to JFK because AA is OneWorld. Usually 2 bags allowed @23kg, but because she is QP, she should be allowed 3 bags on the way home, with no-one counting as she tosses them off at the bag drop just out of Customs in LAX.
In LAX, clear US Immigration & Customs, drop the bags, then head around to T4. Will need to go to a kiosk / counter at T4 to get boarding passes. Strangely, when I have done this will AA assistance, they tell me to tell the kiosk that I have no baggage. Seems wrong! But, she will have the bag tags showing all the way through to JFK.
Others here, feel free to correct me if I've messed up.