Apologies in advance for my questions as I am a total rookie...would appreciate your wisdom and help though ...

Assumed trip: ZRH-LHR-SFO-LHR-ZRH (or any other reasonable start point e.g. DUB or MUC or whatever)

Question 1: Does this mean that I'd have to check my luggage in before boarding the trip in ZRH (same day stopover)? or if that possibility exists, for an overnight stopover, I arrive from ZRH-LHR in the evening and do LHR-SFO next morning and get check in luggage brought to airport by family member?

Question 2: For the return leg, SFO - LHR - ZRH, does this mean I would have to check my luggage "through" from SFO to ZRH? Or will I get the option to pick it up at LHR and try to do LHR- ZRH a couple of weeks later (or not at all as seems to have been suggested elsewhere)?


Thanks a bunch to one and all.