Hello.

I was looking for some advice.

In May this year I will be doing a DONEx. Part of this will be MCT to DPS, via LHR and NRT. There will be a 9 hour layover in LHR and a 5 hour layover in NRT. Because I am transiting through LHR I can only take one bag as cabin luggage, the other must be checked in. My question is: Where should I check the bag through to? LHR? NRT? or should I try for DPS?

The reason that I don't think I will be able to check it though to DPS when I arrive at MCT airport is that the NRT-DPS flight won't leave until 30 hours after I leave MCT. I tried to do a similar thing a few years ago on another DONEx, when I was checking in at IST. My routing was IST/LHR/SFO/SJU/JFK with no stopovers. The BA agent could only check my bag through to SFO as the rest of the flights weren't 'open yet'. On that occasion it didn't really matter, since I had to collect my bag at SFO anyway to clear customs. But on this trip it would be nice if I could just check it through the whole way, so that I don't have the hassle of going landside, picking it up and re-checking it.

If I can't check it all the way from MCT to DPS, I assume that my best option is to pick it up at LHR (assuming it arrives...), put it in left luggage, (since apparently BA don't want you checking in more than 3 hours before your flight leaves) going into London for a few hours, coming back to LHR, getting it out of left luggage and checking it in for LHR-NRT-DPS (sigh), and then checking myself in at the bar in the lounge!

Alternatively I could check it through to NRT and collect it before I change terminals for the JL flight to DPS.

Any thoughts?

Many thanks & sorry about the lenght of the post.

Cheers,

medicus