Originally Posted by
Kiwi Flyer
Yes.
Given how long immigration takes, bags are normally waiting on the belt before you get there. So not the stumbling block to making it work.
But if check-in at Heathrow were willing to consider the linked tickets as a single through-booking on NZ1, issuing a single boarding pass and checking bags all the way to Auckland, then you'd just use the "holding pen" rather than clearing immigration and collecting bags, right?
I guess that's my question... Can you get away without having to clear immigration in LA, if the sectors are booked separately?