Originally Posted by
Often1
US law requires that the allowance for the marketing carrier of the first segment apply to all segments of the ticket. Waivers for status, credit cards and the like do not affect this calculation.
US law also requires that the e-ticket receipt show the charge, if any, for the first and the second bag.
Yeah I have always thought this was weird. What if your trip is, say ORD-SFO, 3 day stop, SFO-PVG, 3 day stop, PVG-CTU, 3 day stop, CTU-SFO? With all sectors operated by United except PVG-CTU?
(1) For ORD-SFO United offers zero free checked bags.
(2) For SFO-PVG as a matter of policy United normally offers two free checked bags on all flights from US to China -- so are they obliged to offer the United ORD-SFO bag fees and choose to waive them and charge less instead?
(3) For PVG-CTU (Air China) United does not publish bag fees for China-to-China flights because they don't operate those -- do you get the ORD-SFO fees or what?