Originally Posted by
ba273
I've got a Done5 booked, and to cut a long question short. I'll be flying back from JFK to LHR, and breaking my trip in the UK before heading out to Dubai later in the year before ending my trip in GIB.
I didn't want to take the JFK-MAN flight as the time's weren't good for me, but would I have any problems doing this?
Buy a seperate ticket from LHR to MAN
Could I get my luggage through checked from JFK to MAN?
If not am I going to have any issues with excess baggage if I collect it at T4 and check it back in at T1 (I'll have two checked in suitcases).
Thanks,
Yes your bags can be checked through JFK-LHR-MAN
. But as the revised routing involves LHR and then a T4 to T1 transfer via the FCC, you should really forget about it and do everything possible to rescheduled to the non-stop JFK-MAN, you also have to consider the possibility of 2 or 3 Days in Manchester without any baggage.
T4 International to T1 Domestic with BA probally has my biggest record of delayed baggage, even allowing for a 3 hour transfer its been misconected 50% of the time, sometimes due to air traffic but usually just pure incompetance.
Dont even think about collecting your own Bags at T4, then taking them yourself by HEX Train to T1..Far too much hassle with Immigration and customs with 2 bags. Plus you have the concerns of will your bags be off at T4 in 30 minutes or 90 minutes, will you just have missed a train, will the train even be on-time, my last one had a mechnical at T4 Station and it took me almost an hour to do a 15 minute journey. Then you have to stand in a few lines at T1 to check-in Bags then more security.
Only a Masochist would contemplate what you are proposing when there is a Perfect DIRECT flight with 767 Club Lay Flat Seats, just slightly earlier than you might have contemplated.
PS are you planning to visit Portmerion..Number_6.