Originally Posted by
dougzz
It's good you know this and share the information. But it's absolutely ridiculous that Qatar pretending to offer a service do something that will result in 'your luggage almost never arriving with you' - what a crazy situation.
The alternative is QR refusing to check-through bags on separate tickets, in which case the passenger will instead have to exit airside, clear immigration/customs, and recheck bags at the intermediate point. So no, not "absolutely ridiculous".