Originally Posted by
TriumphS3
As for not being able to have checked luggage, you should be able to check your bags through to YVR (or any leg you choose).
That is true. I've never experienced not being able to short-check my luggages with any airlines. And among those that I have heard who weren't able to couldn't do so as a result of an inflexible and/or inexperienced ground agent.