yyztozag

By the looks of things, it probably has to do with the AC baggage handlers. They’re separate from GTAA/Swissport, or whatever T1 uses.

pitz

Whether they tag the bags through is a function of willingness, policy, and perhaps even training to do it in their IT systems, not the physical people at YYZ who have to receive the bags, stow them away, and ensure they're onloaded accordingly the next day.

Bazz16202

Hi all, we are shortly due to fly South America-YYZ-Europe with a roughly 12 hour day time connection in YYZ, all sectors with Air Canada on a single ticket. We plan to leave the airport and check out Toronto for the day during our layover. I've read some now fairly dated threads about bags not being able to be held on long *overnight* connections at YYZ but will our checked bags be held for this length of time during the day or will be asked to pick them up and re-check them before our flight to Europe? Any advice greatly appreciated, thank you.

Kiwiguy34

Hi guys! I apologize in advance if this was mentioned but I have yet to find a thread with my exact situation.
I will be flying Air Canada from LaGuardia (LGA) to Yellowknife, Northwest Territories (YZF), with connections in Toronto (YYZ) and Edmonton (YEG). The first layover is 10 hours overnight in Toronto, and coincidentally where I live as well. I will be travelling with two checked bags from New York and would love to drop one bag at my house during the overnight layover in Toronto, since I don't need to take both bags with me up north.
My first question is if AC still holds baggage for overnight connections under 12 hours...and my second question, can I short check one bag to Toronto and have the other bag continue onwards to Yellowknife? I.e. do the same number of bags you check in at departure need to match the same number of bags you arrive at your destination with? Any advice is much appreciated, cheers!

Adam Smith

With this being your first post, welcome to FT

There are a bunch of threads on checked baggage on overnight connections, which is why I've merged your post with one of them.

I'm not sure when they've ever done that, but not any time recently, as you'll see from this thread and others on the topic in the past few years.

In general, is it possible to short check one bag and not the other? Should be. But in this case, likely rendered moot by the fact AC will not want to hold your bag overnight at YYZ anyway.

YYZtoHKG

In general, overnight connections will be recognized in the system and anything over a certain threshold (the duration escapes me at the moment) will be tagged only to where the overnight will happen. In this case YYZ.
If bags are tagged through, there is a backend glitch that the system does not like multiple destinations for the same customer.
As an example, i was due to fly YYZ-YVR-YEG, One bag to YVR and two to YYC. The YVR made it on the first plane, and the YYC's never got loaded and went direct.

lcohen999

Personally...

I would short check them to YYZ, throw them in a rental car or luggage storage and go do your thing and re-check in with everything for your next leg

YXXFlyer

You would normally not need to pick them up. Because 12h connection times are unusual those bags have a bigger chance of missing the connection.
If you have good credit card insurance I'd jump on that and go shopping in Europe. Just make sure you have the absolute essentials in a single carry-on.

If you prefer the higher chance of your bags making the transition you can short-check them as lchonen pointed out. Ask for this at check-in in person, not online. This will then require you to check them in again when you arrive back at YYZ after your excursion. You can pay for luggage storage at the airport to save yourself from taking it around. That's usually about $7-10 per bag.

tracon

AC will keep your bags on connections of up to 24 hours.
Unless you tell them otherwise.

Bazz16202

Thank you all, I really appreciate your thoughts. I think we will ask them to be short checked to YYZ and put them in storage for the day as suggested.

yyznomad

Just make sure left luggage service is back open at YYZ.

Bazz16202

As a reference for anyone else who may face this issue, we didn’t try to check the bags to YYZ in the end but instead let AC hold them all the way to Europe. No problem at all and the bags arrived as planned at the other end.

yyzgigi

Thanks for the update. Glad it all worked out and hope you enjoyed your short visit to Toronto.

theranj

This works for International only - we had an overnight trip thru YYZ in March, flying thru to Punta Cana our bags were checked thru all the way w/a 13-hour connection. Similar connection time coming back for domestic and they wouldn't do it, so we took our bags to the hotel room (it was going to cost us $40 to leave the bags I believe with the bag drop company, wasn't worth it for us)

SilverChris

I know this thread is for YYZ, but I figured a lot of the expertise would also apply for YUL so please forgive me for piggybacking.

I'm booked on VIE-YUL on OS, connecting to YYZ on AC the next morning. Will I have to drag my bag along for the quick overnight hotel stay?

It's on one ticket so I'm assuming OS will tag it to YYZ, albeit with the need to re-check after CBSA.