Originally Posted by
phisher4
Meh... Don't read post 4 too religiously. Ask nicely, change agents if necessary. Usually you can check early.
Since everyone is saying not to trust post 4, and it is mine, here's some more detail:
* there were about a dozen people waiting. All of us had flown LHR-JFK on VS, and they wouldn't interline bags
* there was 1 agent working the check-in/bag check desk
Maybe the first person to get there did tick her off in some way, I don't know. By the time we arrived there were at least 5 others there.