Originally Posted by
JPat
egads! If you only have 90 minutes to clear customs, pick up bags and recheck you are in trouble. Better phone NWA and get a supervisor on the phone and see if you can get your bags checked all the way thru to BOS on Alaska. Even at that I think you will have to do the bag check in customs. Look into taking a later flight IMO....
Your bags should be able to be "checked through" from NRT the catch is that you still need to pick them up, walk them through customs, and then drop them back on the conveyor belt to go to your connecting flight. You do not need to go to the ticket counter.