Originally Posted by The Saint
I'm with Dave on this one. Interlining is a burden for the first accepting airline as it gets saddled with the responsibility and cost if the bag goes astray. Hence, BA's general policy is not to interline unless (a) to another OneWorld carrier; or (b) on a through ticket.
In my - relatively limited but all in the last 12 months - experience, all that the check-in agents did was consult the list and then went ahead. I am not sure why they would have done that if there was an edict from on-high not to do so. I thought that one of the points of IATA was to enable interlining (hence not available on the LCC's which are not members). Is there not an IATA agreement about all this ?