Originally Posted by
plunet
I have not done this journey, nor a journey that involves a domestic with RJ. However the principal of needing to get your bags would typically apply on an international to domestic journey where you need to present your bags to customs (and yourself to immigration) for your bags and you to be cleared to travel internally within the country.
The baggage/customs shuffle would not be needed on the reverse a domestic to international connection because there is not the same scrutiny on what your leaving the country with. You would however need to clear immigration on your connection.
I strongly suspect that a scheduled connection of 30mins at AMM is below the minimum connection time. If some kind sole wandering past this topic can check this on Expert Flyer they should be able to confirm it.
For the OP, MCT D to I is 60 mins. I'd suggest you get in touch with them and have your flights rearranged. I'm not sure how many other flights from AQJ there are on your day of travel, so an overnight in AMM may become necessary.
BTW, there are a number of countries where you only clear immigration at your point of arrival and customs at your final destination. All of Schengen Europe is like that, but a couple of others that come to mind are Thailand and Egypt. I don't know if it's only TG and MS that have that setup or if other airlines in those countries do as well, Egypt didn't really have much else in terms of other domestic airlines last time I flew domestic there. But I'd suspect other *A airlines connecting to TG and MS for the domestic segment might have that setup as well.
Was quite interesting to me last time I did that on TG, because of course you end up on the same plane as anyone else taking the same flight as a domestic passenger. Someone up to something nefarious could quite easily arrange to hand off something to a domestic passenger on the domestic flight and not have to worry about it passing through Thai customs. The connecting passenger only goes though a basic security check in BKK no different than an INT-INT connection.