pdbe25

Part of my tier point run, MIA-LHR-BUD, I arrive in BUD at 16:55 and on a separate ticket I depart BUD for LHR on the same day at 17:50.

I was thinking of only checking my bags from MIA to LHR....Not collect them in LHR until I arrive from BUD on the flight that depart at 17:50.

What will happen to my bags for 9 hours in Heathrow if unclaimed immediately?

corporate-wage-slave

Doing point runs with checked baggage is a little unusual. Most people manage on Hand Baggage Only (HBO).

Normally you are not given a choice, so if the BUD sector is in the same ticket and it's a same day connection then the bags go to the final airport, here BUD. And you can see the issue. They normally only allow short check if there is an overnight stay in London.

If somehow you do persuade the agent to go against guidelines and check to London you will need to recover the bags and pay for them to be stored at Excess Baggage, who are a company that does this and has a booth in the airport landside. Their website has the cost of doing this, and you can pay by card. If you leave it on the carousel then at some point it's likely to go to BA's luggage store, and then it gets problematic to recover it.

HogwartsExpress

I suspect the OP is asking if their bags will still be in the baggage hall in the evening from the morning arrival.

corporate-wage-slave

And I think I suggested it would not be there.

pdbe25

I suspect Excess Baggage will cost money. But I wondering what happens to a checked bag not collected immediately.

corporate-wage-slave

They will presumably check the booking and helpfully send the bags to BUD a few days later. Hopefully they would then send it on to whereever you are, but I doubt they would leave the bags in the hall for more than a couple of hours.

polochick

According to the Heathrow website it�s �15 for 3-24 hours - but I think your bigger issue is the one CWS pointed out that if you�re on one ticket from the US to BUD your bag will in all likelihood be checked through to BUD and won�t be short checked. Can you do this trip HBO?

https://www.heathrow.com/at-the-airp...s/left-luggage

NWIFlyer

If I've understood your timings correctly, and using current flight timings, I think you'll nominally have 2h45 at LHR between arriving from MIA and departing for BUD.

As has been said, there's a 99% chance that the agent will tag your bags through to BUD anyway. Clearly you'll have no chance of retrieving them at BUD and checking them back in before your return flight.

Your only option would be to ask for the bag to be pulled from the system at LHR because you needed to access something in it you'd forgotten. This isn't at all a trivial process, complicated by the fact it'll be undergoing a T5-T3 transfer, and the high likelihood is that you don't have enough time to get the bag located and delivered to you, trundle it off to Excess Baggage, then meet positive boarding at T3. In short, if you try this there's an extremely high chance you'll miss your LHR-BUD flight.

You can only sensibly do what you plan with carry-on. That's just how TP runs with immediate turnarounds work in practice.

wanderingjock

This sounds more of a ex-EU holiday (cruise?) flight than a TP run (why come mia-lhr, not mia-xxx-lhr). Still, key point is that MIA checking will be VERY unlikely to short check to LHR, as said above a few times

adrianlondon

It appears that the options are either HBO or abandoning the trip at LHR and waiting while they "offload" your bags that are otherwise on their way to BUD.

NWIFlyer

Yes, I'd guess this is the return flight of an ex-BUD itinerary given it can often be one of the cheaper ex-EU starting points. The OP is not attempting to drop the last leg because either he or she doesn't want to take any risk on re-pricing, or needs the TPs (hence the reference to a TP run).

That probably makes it even more unlikely the agent will bend the rules and short-check to LHR.

wanderingjock

I guess the other option to OP is to try to change the BUD-LHR return flight. Hotel there is cheap and there is an early (next) morning departure I think? That may be cheapest/easiest option? Good luck anyway.

pdbe25

Thank you for the advise. This trip is not until 2024. A lot could change. I try to have my bag checked to LHR and use storage in LHR. This will improve my back to back in BUD. There is risk but I wanted to make sure the risk is what I imagined and not more.

Thank you.

golfmad

I'm not sure you've understood the implications of what you've booked. You won't know until the day you travel whether you'll be able to short check the bag to London and it's very likely you will not be permitted to do so. If you cannot, you will not have time to retrieve it in BUD prior to your return. The risk in your plan is high and you should be hearing loud warning noises at this point. Your plan is not a good one. The easiest fix is to take hand baggage only.

mnhusker

See post above.

OP is likely going to Miami for a cruise, so going HBO is not likely to be a good idea for that kind of trip.

The MIA-LHR-BUD portion of his trip is to obtain a good fare to get to from MIA to London for the cruise, nothing more and he would like to NOT risk losing the luggage on this quick turn around leg of his journey and his looking at ways to prevent that. Return BUD-LHR will be on "second ticket" on an LCC I would presume (Wizz?)

Sad thing is, once OP checks his bag out bound, it may just stay at LHR............