Originally Posted by
Collierkr
recheck will be open for that flight arrival that OP mentioned. The real question is whether they will take the bags once they figure out the departing flight isn’t until next morning. I suspect yes as the recheck process is very rapid. Just drop and go. Never seen anyone say wait a minute where is this going and when.
Originally Posted by
YadiMolina
The recheck baggage personnel there are airport contractors. They do nothing more than scan the bag tags with a laser pistol gizmo, wait for a beep out of that same device, and place the bag on the conveyor (and sometimes, let the passenger to place the bag)
Originally Posted by
YadiMolina
. They don't review boarding passes, they don't judge timing of future flights or eligibility for passing through to the TSA re-security upstairs or consult a computer terminal. So I suppose this all reverts back to your original airline checking bags through to the final destination. Beep, go on, no issues.
Originally Posted by
dkc192
Are we sure that the baggage recheck facility will be open that late? At least according to today's schedule, the last UA departure of the night is at 10:10pm (to ORD). If they only staff the recheck facility based on UA's flight schedule (my working assumption), there won't be anyone there past ~9:30pm.
We are in motion. First goal met. At the BR ticket counter in Chiang Mai, the
agent tagged the bags CNX-TPE-IAH-ORD, even with a 9-hour overnight layover in IAH. A United Airlines email to the passenger verified this.
The passenger is enroute to IAH where they will collect bags and go through Customs around 10-11pm and then try to drop bags at the baggage recheck (the connecting flight leaves between 7am and 8am in the morning). After dropping bags at recheck, they will walk out the normal doors into the main airport non-secure area.
Then in the morning they just need to go through TSA security and get to their gate for flight to ORD. Let's see what happens! Stay tuned for an update later tonight!
Originally Posted by
JimInOhio
My son's and D-I-L's experience (at ORD, not IAH) coming off a delayed INTL flight did not pan out this way. When they got to the recheck station after T5 customs, the UA personnel told them they missed the bag drop cutoff time for their connecting flight..
Originally Posted by
IMRU
In IAH find it much easier to drop bags then exit the terminal and go up to the non-recheck TSA line. The recheck line at IAH is notoriously unreliable in terms of time to get through, and as noted upthread, has no Pre-Check. When I was there last weekend, and forgot to leave, they were trying out two new methods of putting folks through the line, that resulted significant confusion, more than usual TSA agent yelling, and a really long wait for them to "clear" the folks who didn't get the special screen from the line.
Since you're staying overnight, you won't go through re-check, but thought I'd add this data point since it was brought up.
Thanks for additional data points.