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Old May 19, 2018, 6:08 pm
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mot29
 
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At most international airports I’ve been in, there are baggage service desks in the bag claim area, after immigration, but before that final exit to the arrivals lobby. And yes, you start with CI.

I’ve had bags misconnect internationally several times. DL to LIM, KL to YYZ are two recent cases. In each case, the bags caught up to me the bags caught up to me within 24 to 48 hours and the airlines cleared them through customs.
For the KL misconnect, I was flying on to DCA the afternoon of arrival and the KL agent arranged for the bags to be sent on to me at DCA. What was interesting, from the bag tags that got attached, it seems the bags crossed the US border by courier to BUF then sent by air BUF-DTW-DCA.
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