Originally Posted by
emcampbe
I think it depends on layover time.
we did SFO-EWR-YYZ on a late afternoon flight, arriving late evening and departed first thing in morning I think total time on ground was like <10 hours. Bag tag printed off with both segments. Agent had to do something to short check, and happened to be training another agent, IIRC I remember them saying something about 12 hours being the cutoff, but since it was overnight they could override for short-check.
It's supposed to be that bags aren't checked through if the layover is "12 hours
or overnight," but I've seen a couple of examples recently where I wasn't checking bags but where I suspect you might be right in terms of what the computer is currently doing. I still wouldn't recommend trying to do ti, though. UA has a hard enough time with bags that are in the baggage room for a few minutes, let alone for hours.
Originally Posted by
emcampbe
A multi-city ticket might price out ok if it’s last flight of night into DEN and first flight out. YMMV.
OGG may have longer stopover rules than the North American fares, so I agree it's worth checking.
The exception that you're implying -- where it's not considered a stopover if you take the next available flight -- doesn't appear to have been written into UA's fares in many years. So in the usual case, I expect this will fare, but in this particular case, it might work.