Often1

US law provides that your baggage allowance for the marketing carrier of the first segment applies to the entire ticket. If you are on a US-marketed first segment, your second segment allowance will be the same as the first whether you are on US, AA or any other carrier.

lkar

I am flying AA from YUL to DFW and then US from DFW to PHX. I have about 90 minutes. Separate tickets. Will AA check my bags all the way through on to PHX?

offdalip

That's a good question.............


I booked a trip TPA > MIA > POP > MIA on the AA website and then MIA > TPA on the US website ( it was alot cheaper for some reason).

Apparently MIA / POP legs are all AA metal and TPA / MIA legs are all US metal.

I get that I'll have to re-check my bags in for MIA > TPA leg, but will a flight originating
with US metal booked on AA website have to re-check as well?

Indelaware

In general, AA does not have a problem through checking baggage onto another OneWorld carrier when passenger is travelling on two separate tickets. Since your baggage will clear US Customs pre-clearance at YUL, you should be able to check it straight through.

They even have an irrops policy regarding separate tickets: http://www.aa.com/i18n/agency/Bookin...tkt_policy.jsp


Since your travel is all on one ticket your baggage will be checked through in both directions. However, on your return since MIA will be your port of entry, you will need to collect your bags, clear them through customs, and then represent them to the airline (whilst still in the international arrivals area) as connecting baggage. You will not, however, be technically re-checking them as the original baggage tags will show TPA as the final destination.

lkar

Wow. Good info. That's great.

mvoight

I am confused by that statement, since you indicated there should be no problem because they are on separate tickets.

Indelaware

There is never a question with regard to travel on one ticket -- it will be.

With separate tickets there should be no problem.

offdalip

They are separately booked tickets.
TPA>MIA>POP>MIA is the first ticket booked on AA but first leg flown on US.

MIA>TPA is the second ticket booked on US.

I was originally going to rent a one way car from MIA but changed my mind later.

Lived in Miami for 25 years back in the 70/80/90's. MIA seems to have turned into a real zoo.

Thanks all!

Indelaware

Sorry, I had misread your OP as having purchased one ticket. Still, should be no problem.

lkar

So, the answer is that the AA agent at the station of origin will happily tag your bag all the way through to the final destination on a split ticket with another one world carrier. The bag arriving at said destination on your flight, however, is another matter entirely apparently. The very pleasant but clearly barely borderline sympathetic US baggage office veterans in Phoenix tried their hardest not to scoff at my surprise that my bag did not make it, suggesting it was never much better than a 50/50 proposition that AA would get the bag to the right place. This is the fourth bag I have delivered to a smiling AA agent for interlining to another one world carrier on a split ticket. Exactly none have made it. This was, unlike the other three, the end of a trip not the beginning, so I really don't care if it takes a week. Just a "fool me once" datapoint.

mvoight

I was questioning your statement "Since your travel is on one ticket", since the OP's travel is not on one ticket.

mvoight

That is rather odd, since the baggage handlers don't check to see if the passenger is one one ticket or two. At least, I thought they determine the baggage destination based on the ticket attached, which would look the same whether on one ticket or 2.

lkar

The only insight I was given by the baggage office in PHX is that US and and AA are not yet on the "same system." I don't know what it means and whether for example AA and BA is on the same "system". My previous bags problems were AA to IB. IB appears based on my small sample to be on it's very own unique "system" where pretty much anything is concerned. AB also seems unable to deal with its own baggage handling particularly competently, let alone interlining.

BoeingBoy

US, less than a year prior to the merger, changed their policy and started not checking bags all the way when more than one ticket was involved. So if checking in with US bags would only be checked to the final airport on that ticket. One would certainly hope that with the merger that would have changed, at least with respect to travel on AA and US tickets, but per the US website:

As long as you booked your flights together in one itinerary, we'll check your bags through to your destination. We'll also check your bags through on all of your US Airways flights.

If you have 2 or more tickets that you booked separately, you'll need to pick up your bag and re-check it with the next airline.

Jim

lkar

I remember the consternation when all that was announced. I wonder whether the policy is now different, given that one world seems to have more robust interlining policies and agreements than did star alliance. Maybe the web site or the policy hasn't yet caught up to their entry into one world. As far as I'm concerned, I have had such crap luck with interlining on split tickets, at this point I am happy to retrieve and recheck unless it requires entry into a country and I don't have enough time. From now on, especially for US connections, I will leave time to claim and recheck. For example UA to JFK and then SQ from JFK, I could through check even on split tickets, I believe, but given that I'd have to change terminals anyway, the extra 30 minutes to claim and recheck is worth it since I always leave a big cushion when on split tickets anyway.