Originally Posted by Swiss Tony
Maybe not. Flew into YVR at the start of last month on BA and they announced as we were getting off the plane that BA do not interline any bags at Vancouver. All pax had to collect them, even though the airport is well set-up for airside transit.
On the plus side at least immigration are both personable and professional. We were in the airport's Fairmont hotel probably 45mins after wheels down and that was with a case to collect.
Depends how you interpret my use of "silliness"
- you certainly don't have to clear US Immigration in YVR
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Lack of interlining is not good. Yet another sign BA are heading towards LCC territory. The solution is to transfer responsibility for the bag at the point of transfer; the (full service) airlines need to get together and figure out how to do this, so that if the first airline can prove it has transferred the bag to a second, then a subsequent loss before arrival at the final destination should have no come back against the first carrier.