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Jun 8, 2011 | 9:03 am

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Originally Posted by JOUY31

Will is key. BA, as a standard commercial policy, refuses to interline baggage to a non-OW airline on separate tickets, even though it may have an interline agreement.

I have had no problem with an AF to OZ transfer on separate tickets, but BA to AF on separate tickets is not possible.

I wonder if this might be station-specific rather than an airline policy as such (or to phrase it differently if some station ignore the policy in question?)? I have definitely had a success rate of (more or less) 50% from BA to AF or KL. In my case typically flights ex-US or SYD. I rarely check luggage (read as rarely as humanly possible!) so my n is not huge but off the top of my head I'd say it worked 3 or 4 times out of 7 or 8.

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