Originally Posted by
furnace
I have two separate tickets/itineraries for an upcoming trip: (1) an AS ticketed flight on AS metal from SEA→JFK, and (2) a flight from JFK→NRT on JL in F, booked as an award ticket through AS. The second flight leaves JFK about 4.5hs later.
Because the second leg is an AS award, I have AS PNRs for both flights. But they are different tickets and PNRs. My wife and I are going to have a bit of baggage so we're interested in checking our bags all the way through. If it helps, we're both MVPG.
Will I be able check my bags in Seattle the way through to NRT? Should I call in advance or just show up to a desk agent with our stuff?
Also, JAL F has a higher per-bag weight limit than AS (32kg). Any sense of how this would affect things? I assume I would have to pay any overweight fee for the first leg in any case.
Answering my own question in case anybody else ends up in a similar situation...
It took some time and work but the gate agent was able to send the bags all the way through. I saw some chatter elsewhere that OW has stopped interlining baggage in this way but it sure didn't seem to bother the AS agent. They even linked the JL and AS itineraries so they even show up now as legs on the same trip now in the Alaska app (although the JL itineraries shows up again with its own PNR right below). The tags were completely correct, at least. I suppose the moment of truth is at the carousel in NRT.
In terms of my question about weight: I'm not 100% sure since since were under 50lbs for each of the bags (the AS limit) but my strong sense coming away from the interaction is that we would have deal with the AS limit on bag size since our first leg was on AS.