Originally Posted by
LAXGUY
I am reviving this thread in order to ask if the situation is the same as five years ago, when the last post was written.
I have an upcoming trip LIS-IAD on TAP, then IAD-LAX (same day) on United; two separate tickets and therefore separate PNR's. The separate tix were necessary because one is paid and for the other I used miles. Will I be able to check a bag all the way through to LAX from LIS?
Thanks to anyone who can give an update on this question.
TP@LIS seems to generally frustrate this kind of thing, so it’s going to be acting like an arrival passenger with IAD as your final destination until you get land-side at IAD and do what other IAD-originating passengers do for IAD-LAX.
If the thru-checking across separate tickets were needing to be done at an outstation for a trip originating on a non-TP flight by a Star Alliance carrier, this kind of thing can work; but then too it depends on how able and willing are the non-TP check-in agents working check-in for the originating (non-TP) Star Alliance; and you would still have to claim luggage at IAD to clear customs.