Originally Posted by
StevenSeagalFan
if you’re checking a bag in from another carrier I don’t think you’ll make it even with a 40 min cutoff. You have to leave security, wait for the bag at baggage claim, walk to AS check in and check the bag. I would see if the first carrier will interline the bag on AS for you?
TBH, is a bag going to make a tight interline connection at LAX that requires a terminal change for the bag? 40 minutes is barely enough time to do an
LAX D-D connection on Delta where presumably you don't have to send the bag around the airport. I-D is 90 minutes.
Frankly I admire OP's chutzpah doing a tight connection at LAX between terminals on separate tickets whilst checking luggage... I've done AS arrivals from Mexico or Costa Rica where I end up walking a mile+ just to get back to T6 and my next AS flight.