Originally Posted by
Mayur808
Hi fellow travelers, getting nervous that my booked flights might not work, and need some advice from you experts.
I am flying from Singapore home to Hawaii on the 25th, and have two unconnected flights:
NH802 (ANA flight to Narita arriving 14:25)
ZG002 (ZipAir flight to HNL leaving 19:30)
Both flights are Terminal 1. Now I have a carryon that is fine for ANA, but will need to be checked for ZipAIr since their carryon weights are crazy small. Thus I may need to check in to get my boarding pass once I arrive at Narita. Will I be able to gate check my bag airside with ZipAir?
I know some people have been caught up by this: zipair.net/en/important/60
but it seems to only talk about transferring from ZipAir to another airline (not the other way around like I am doing). So I am really hoping there is a way for me to get on ZipAir flight and check my bag Airside in T1.
Do I have a prayer here?
Mayur
If your auto check in fails, you will not be able to check in airside and you will be a no show. Also, at the moment, the website says all passengers have to check in at the counter which I don't know if they fully monitor. I don't know how reliable their auto check in is, but the fact that the website does talk about it failing, could indicate that failures do occur.
But Zip is a low cost carrier, so there will not be a transit desk to help you, and the staff will likely not be at the gate until they really need to, which will not be more than an hour before, it is too expensive for LCC operations to have staff idling at the gate to provide a service that they are not intended to offer.
As Zip does not officially offer connecting services, I do wonder if ANA accepts a connecting ticket on Zip as an allowed option? I would check that with ANA.