Originally Posted by
UKtravelbear
from reading threads about connections at Indian airports I believe that you have to collect your bags on arrival and then bag drop / recheck then anyway even if you have a connecting flight (same as arriving in the US for example)
That's definitely true for domestic connections. But CMB is international. Plus here my original check in is with Virgin at SFO and since they interline with 9W I suspect they will through check it to CMB.