r0m8470

Hi, I am flying with AC to CDG, and look to continue from CDG with AF to either ZRH or VIE, have not decided yet. I read on one of the post that AC has interline agreement with AF, which means that provided similar PNR on the tickets, I can get my luggage checked through, yes?

What happened though if the fare from CDG to VIE/ZRH is a fare type that has checked luggage as a paid option? Where would I get charged for the luggage fee, is it during check in?

The reason I do not buy the ticket as through tickets is that my itinerary is an award itinerary from UA. CDG is just the stopover, the real destination is ICN. We are flying to VIE or ZRH while we are in Europe since we don't want to spend all 5 days in Paris. We thought we might as well get the non-Paris itinerary out of the way first since we have to continue to ICN from CDG anyway.

pitz

Yes. In fact, you can present two separate tickets altogether to a suitably competent AC check-in agent, and they'll check you in for both the AC and the AF flights and check your bags through to the final destination.


I'm not sure on this. If you buy it all on one PNR, the baggage check policy and fees only to the originating carrier. So in theory, you'd "avoid" the fees for the AF flights. Want to test it out?

I'm thinking that interline carriers have a sort of 'gentleman's agreement' whereby they don't bother collecting nor assessing bag fees on behalf of other carriers. It just goes through, as a courtesy. But I have no source that I can cite, so if someone asks you for the money, well, you should be prepared to fork it up.

pewpew

Eh, AF would be perfectly within their rights to collect any baggage fee, and I would not be surprised if they did. Baggage fees apply per tickets per direction. Even if you link the itineraries by interlining, you've got two separate contracts with two separate airlines, and the former doesn't influence the latter.

pitz

But does the infrastructure exist to make AC collect an AF fee? I don't think so. Even excess weight/excess baggage fees, AFAIK, are not shared amongst the carriers on an interline or code share agreement, as the belief is that such charges will net out to zero.

Contracts or not, I've just never heard of it happening. But as I suggested, the OP should try it out and see if they catch up with him for the fees!