Hi there,

Hoping someone could help me. Hopefully this is an ok area to post my question. The EK threads are the only section I read so please feel free to move it to a better suited part of the forum if needed.

In 2 weeks my wife and I are flying from Germany where we live to LHR then onwards to Dubai on EK4.

We live in a small city in Germany with an airport that I have in the past found to be very incompetent with organising connecting flights. We have had our luggage delayed/misplaced 3 times.

We will be flying with Emirates all the way to New Zealand for a short hoilday. This proves too much for the local airport here to handle as they seem to not be able to comprehend the fact that we must take many many connecting flights. Also at the time of check in there always seems to be problems with the fact that many of the check in times for the connecting flights are not yet open due to time zone changes!....

Anyway, I would like to know if it is possible to take the short hope over to LHR then once arrived collect our luggage and check in via the EK desks there.

I assume to do this we will need to clear customs/immigration as we will be coming through with our luggage before checking in again.

Is this allowed? And is there anything in particular we should mention when arriving?

I have no experiences in the goings on at LHR as we always fly from Frankfurt or Düsseldorf so any help would be fantastic!

Many thanks

Also-don't know why is says this is my first post....hmmm....been on here a long time and certainly not my first time posting....anyways.....!!!