Originally Posted by
libove
AA could make the information a little more clear, (I called in to AA in advance to ask about it, and it took AA's own staff a while to figure it out), but anyway the information presented in this thread seems to remain accurate.
As a general rule, I would not expect an AA phone agent to be knowledgeable about these kinds of rules. They may happen to get the answer right some of the time, but nothing they say will matter if you show up at the airport and the agent there says otherwise. Same with every other airline/hotel company. The days of calling to find out info are long gone.
Originally Posted by
born sleepy
Hmmm... so I can't check a bag the night before? Have a Saturday morning departure out of ATL and staying at one of the Gateway hotels, and I'd rather check the big bag the night before then just cruise right to Precheck without the long detour to the AA counter.
Originally Posted by
jhalapin
Yeah, I had the same question. I have a 5AM out of DFW (overnighting at the Grand Hyatt) and wanted to drop my bags the night before about 8PM to save an hour of sleep (and to add insult to injury, it's March 10th so I'll lose an hour anyway due to daylight saving time).
Can't do the night before, period. It's a little silly, because AA now has the 16.5-hour rule, so I have been scheduling a number of trips with, for example, BOS-DFW arriving mid-afternoon on day one, so that it can be on the same ticket as an early a.m. DFW-to-wherever on day two, so that we can check the checked bags from BOS and not have to get up extra early at DFW. No trouble yet with AA keeping track of however many excess bags it is storing due to the 16.5-hour rule, so presumably if AA wanted to, it could permit check-in of bags the night before. But I doubt it wants to.
Originally Posted by
fastflyer
Might it be that the new terminal building at MCI has some kind of new kind of baggage operation? I have not yet checked a bag there. Wondering if the newest "automated" baggage systems might not play well with early checked baggage.
I still don't think I've ever been to MCI. If I go, this will be high on my list of mysteries to demystify!