Originally Posted by
FlyAO2
I have never in my life seen a check in agent bust out a tape measure and check all the dimensions of a bag. Suppose if it was egregious, they could do that, but for 3" they aren't going to notice/tell.
As mentioned above -- no reason VS shouldn't be tagging it for you (even with 2 tickets).
If you get it tagged by VS all the way that reduces your 1 in a million chance to 0.
If the bag is a regular suitcase that looks close enough to the dimensions and no discernible difference from other large suitcases, I'd agree. I have personally had an agent pull out the tape-measure when I was looking to check a box with a picture in it though. Turned out the box was too big and we had to take it back to the car in the parking garage as we didn’t want to pay the extensive oversized baggage fee.
Originally Posted by
maxmin
No its two separate PNRs.
I’m going to ask VS if they can tag it all the way through even though I have to collect it and re-drop it.
Virgin Atlantic says their policy is NOT to through check bags across separate tickets
Separate tickets
Your bag will not be checked through to your destination if you hold separate tickets. In this case, your bags will be checked through to the destination of your first ticket. Note: separate tickets means you have a separate ticket number for each flight in your itinerary. These are usually booked separately from each other at different times.
https://help.virginatlantic.com/bb/e...d-baggage.html
Note that this policy is different from what DL has as its policy when going the other way (from DL to VS) as DL will thru-check to a VS flight on a separate ticket (I realize this doesn't help you but posting this for reference in case someone cites it to note the difference from VS's policy as stated above)
https://pro.delta.com/content/agency...e-policy-.html