Didn't work out at all...there's a baggage drop off point at T4 but you need to have you luggage tagged to your connecting flight, so no luck there. Hauled my luggage to T8. Here AA was not able to check me in and I had to wait until AY opened their checkin at around 2pm to be able to access the flagship lounge...

Clearly I blame LA (as did both AA and AY!!) about this as they really should have been able to check my luggage all the way through, even though it always needs to be taken through customs in US...Another issue would have been that LA was not able to issue my BP for JFK-HEL on AY so I couldn't have cleared the TSA check point here even if the luggage thing would have worked out. Another thing to blame LA about. (the OLCI printout isn't good enough).

LA is a great airline on some aspects but their ground staff is not always too competent, I pushed the issue yesterday but clearly I should have pushed even more and request for a supervisor. This "Air Lingus" s**t was another story...not a sign about EI visible at T4 transit area...


This was OW at its worst, I'd say. It might have worked better if AA and AY would use the same IT system but as they still have a mix within OW there was nothing they could do..