Originally Posted by
Calchas
Is this one continuous ticket from XXX-...-NRT? (With only transiting along the way?)
If any of your stop-overs are longer than 24 hours, generally you will have to collect your bag and re-check it at that point. Airports do not like to store bags for more than 24 hours in my experience. Your bags should be checked through (and fully interlined) at any shorter stop-overs automatically. You can ask the agent to check it to some destination along part way; they may or may not do this, although generally for an F passenger I would be extremely irritated if they did not acquiesce to a reasonable request (i.e., "I have an eleven hour stop over , I plan to get some sleep, I would like my bag." or similar).
In principle all your boarding passes will be issued straight away, but for such a long trip it may be too early to issue some of the later ones. In this case you can collect them airside or landside later.
Thank you Calchas for your response. This is indeed one continuous ticket (I was on the phone with UA for 2 hours to get it booked).
This was booked as a OW so all layovers are <24 hours as stopovers were not permitted. I will make the request at check-in but prepare for the worst if force me to check to the final destination.