night spent in middle of award
Aug 13, 2019, 8:58 am
#1
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night spent in middle of award
I have an business class award on hold, CPH>LHR>BNA. I will spend the night at LHR. Will I be able to get my luggage? Always before when I have flown this route I have had to buy the ticket from CPH to LHR, then have gotten the award to BNA, but now that we have the direct flight from LHR to BNA the entire itinerary is available as an award. Thanks, Julia
Aug 13, 2019, 9:25 am
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With an overnight layover you probably can plead your case for your bag to be checked through only to LHR. If the layover is over 12 hrs then the policy will be to only check the bag to LHR anyway, if it is less than 12 hrs you can choose to check the bag all the way though and plan accordingly if you don't want to lug luggage around.
Aug 13, 2019, 9:32 am
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Can you not carry your bag on? You may have trouble checking bags to LHR because its not a stopover or legs booked on separate PNRs connecting at LHR. I have had no problems with bags on stopovers but layovers of ~12 hrs where I need access to my items I will carry on or take with me what I will need.
Aug 13, 2019, 11:21 am
#6
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Not true. I've had three overnight, <12 hour (>7 each, but <12) "layovers" in the past 2 months and have note been able to short-check the luggage once. The agents said that it's physically impossible to do this without a hand-written tag, and they all refuse to do this.
Aug 13, 2019, 11:37 am
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Since at CPH you will be checking-in with BA you will get a choice of having your bags togged to the final destination or to LHR only. The default will be to tag to the final destination (always for connection under 24 hours), but you can ask the agent to check the bag to LHR only.
Aug 13, 2019, 11:47 am
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About 10 days ago we flew DUB-DFW-ICT with a 15 hour overnight layover in DFW. We wanted to check all the way to ICT, but they wouldn't let us do that in DUB. To make it worse, we had to wait 1:10 for our bags in DFW when we were tired and ready to go to our hotel.
Aug 13, 2019, 11:48 am
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Not true. I've had three overnight, <12 hour (>7 each, but <12) "layovers" in the past 2 months and have note been able to short-check the luggage once. The agents said that it's physically impossible to do this without a hand-written tag, and they all refuse to do this.
Aug 13, 2019, 1:20 pm
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Plus, having a small hand carry w a day or two of clothes, is a strategy for dealing with a loss or delay of a bag at your destination.