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Old Aug 31, 2017 | 1:34 am
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Originally Posted by plunet
I was always under the impression that it is the airline that tagged it is responsible to reunite it with the passenger. So in this case that would be QR.

Isn't this partly the reason why airlines do not want to check through baggage on separate tickets as they increase their liability under the Montreal convention for additional baggage handling over which they have no influence?
BA told my wife that Qatar should never have checked the bags through to the BA flights, which I think was rather misleading.
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