Originally Posted by
Microwave
What I'd prefer to do is to leave the bags at left luggage at LHR T3 the day before, then the day of travel do the same-plane turn at CPH, go landside at LHR to transfer to T3, retrieve the bags from left luggage, then check the bags and head airside and fly to LAX. Can anyone think of any reason this wouldn't work? Has tried this and run into issues? Will AA agents have a problem checking the bags in the middle of the leg (after the completion of AA6387/BA813 but before the checked bag cutoff time for AA135)?
I've done it with AA and with BA at LHR on my CPH-LHR-US trips. As long as I got the LHR-recovered item into AA/BA at LHR before the baggage drop cut-off time at LHR, it worked out fine for me. With AA, sometimes the AA security contractors or check-in reps at LHR would wonder what's up, but that was no show-stopper for me. My biggest issue doing this was that sometime the luggage recovery at LHR went too slow for comfort -- but that was when there was a line of customers looking to recover their bags from the same place.