Originally Posted by
MrSimonR
That's not correct.
Your bags can be tagged to their final destination, even if transitting in the USA, even if you will be required to collect them and re-check them a few steps later.
Some US airports don't require you to collect the bags, if it has the ITI facility.
Yes, we are saying the same thing but just to clarify what I put there is a difference between
1) checking a bag as in merely producing and affixing a bag tag to the final destination; and
2) checking a bag such that it is transfered from one flight to another without your intervention.
In
Frequentflyer99 I would have expected 1) should have been done (has been done for me in the past with BA metal arriving in USA and conencting on to a AA flight), but 2) is not something which can be done when you are arrivng from outside the USA and connecting onwards.