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Feb 7, 2018, 12:33 am

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abhilife2001

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Quote:

Originally Posted by HkCaGu

I meant stand-alone check-in. If it's one ticket, and you have an overnight break meaning you'd check in for a domestic trip (or one with no free allowance), they can't charge you.

Less than a year after USDOT promulgated that rule, I had a CA ticket LAX-HKG RT. On return I was stopping PEK for a few days. At HKG they tried to charge me according to HKG-PEK allowance.

Thanks for the clarification.
In my experience, airlines have tried to charge when stopover is more than 24hours. infact in some situations, the TA advised to keep the transit within 24 hrs to get the benefit of international baggage allowance and benefit of end to end route connection price.

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