Originally Posted by
Often1
Glad it worked for you. The check-in agent was entirely correct. DL does not short check bags, so he went out of his way for you.
There are no notes kept of this, so you are free to attempt this on every trip or never again and it will not matter. You simply need to be prepared to accept a "no" and thus check through/
Again - I'm not disagreeing with the policy on short-checking bags, but rather the fact that DL is, in certain scenarios returning an A -> B outbound, B ->C->A return routing for a roundtrip flight search for A->B that is in reality an A->C roundtrip fare via B in the outbound direction.
The faring isn't made apparent in the flight search or purchase process, and as someone pointed out upthread, it's not uncommon for DL.com and the App to show odd break points. If DL is going to set a given policy (only check bags to the endpoint of the fare), they shouldn't sell a product that runs afoul of their policies.