Originally Posted by
Longton
Recently, during a one day stopover in Dubai I wanted to collect one bag and keep one bag at the airport.
It wasn't possible to split up the baggage. I could either collect both, or leave both.
The difference will be that there is more than one person. So, they can split bags. One person can check the single bag just to DXB, whereas the other people check theirs all the way. However, as has been said, EK may not allow short checking anyway.