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Old Oct 17, 2014 | 3:07 am
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Originally Posted by AyeCaramba
I'm doing one of these ex-AMS shortly and have stupidly booked a return to AMS from LHR rather than LGW so I'm not guaranteed to get my bag back at LHR

What would you estimate as the % chance that they would refuse to check a bag to LHR rather than AMS? Would the fact that I'm taking a domestic AA flight increase or decrease this %?

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where are you checking the bag?

if your route is BA JFK - LHR - AMS, it's a 90+% likelihood that they will NOT let you check the bag 'short' to LHR. that's the feedback on here. I had it happen a few years ago and paid $400 for the priviledge.

Checking-in in some outstation that doesnt come across these that often (and indeed with an AA agent) might help your chances of being able to short-check the bag to LHR though I think AA is also generally pretty hot on this.
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