Thanks for the info. This topic always confuses me. I live in the USA but have done the same thing in the EU. I always get a confused look when I only check my bags part of the way. Just this January FCO-VIE (stop 20 hours)-MIA, the TA at FCO thought it really odd that I wanted my bags in VIE. Had the same happen doing TXL-CPH-LHR(stop 18 hours)-BCN, you want to collect bags in LHR not BCN???