Flying CX, 19 hour layover, baggage rules?
Jun 20, 2012, 6:13 am
#16
Join Date: Jan 2002
Location: Dallas, TX, USA
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Quick luggage transfer question.
I am traveling on two separate tickets:
DFW-NRT on AA in J
Layover of 26 hours in Tokyo
NRT-HKG-BKK on CX in J
Since the layover is more than 24 hours I can't check my bags all the way from DFW to BKK. If so, will CX enforce their 30kg total checked baggage weight policy for J pax when I recheck at NRT or will they honor AA baggage policy (2 pieces with 23 kgs each) since my travel is orginating in North America. I am trying to avoid surprises at NRT and pack accordingly.
I am traveling on two separate tickets:
DFW-NRT on AA in J
Layover of 26 hours in Tokyo
NRT-HKG-BKK on CX in J
Since the layover is more than 24 hours I can't check my bags all the way from DFW to BKK. If so, will CX enforce their 30kg total checked baggage weight policy for J pax when I recheck at NRT or will they honor AA baggage policy (2 pieces with 23 kgs each) since my travel is orginating in North America. I am trying to avoid surprises at NRT and pack accordingly.
Jun 20, 2012, 10:46 am
#17
Join Date: Sep 2005
Location: TPE / HSZ
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Posts: 6,437
Quick luggage transfer question.
I am traveling on two separate tickets:
DFW-NRT on AA in J
Layover of 26 hours in Tokyo
NRT-HKG-BKK on CX in J
Since the layover is more than 24 hours I can't check my bags all the way from DFW to BKK. If so, will CX enforce their 30kg total checked baggage weight policy for J pax when I recheck at NRT or will they honor AA baggage policy (2 pieces with 23 kgs each) since my travel is orginating in North America. I am trying to avoid surprises at NRT and pack accordingly.
I am traveling on two separate tickets:
DFW-NRT on AA in J
Layover of 26 hours in Tokyo
NRT-HKG-BKK on CX in J
Since the layover is more than 24 hours I can't check my bags all the way from DFW to BKK. If so, will CX enforce their 30kg total checked baggage weight policy for J pax when I recheck at NRT or will they honor AA baggage policy (2 pieces with 23 kgs each) since my travel is orginating in North America. I am trying to avoid surprises at NRT and pack accordingly.
Oct 18, 2015, 12:01 pm
#18
Join Date: Aug 2012
Posts: 544
This thread hasn't been updated in quite awhile -- does anyone have more recent experience with how CX is able to handle luggage for very long layovers? I'm contemplating a trip for Washington DC to Bangkok, and would like to build in long enough layover to spend a day checking out each of Vancouver and Hong Kong. I can make the flight times work out, but don't want to have to deal with luggage. Any chance luggage can be checked straight through to Bangkok?
Thanks!
Thanks!
Mar 11, 2016, 3:12 am
#20
Join Date: Oct 2009
Location: Washington, DC area
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Posts: 504
Recent experience at HKG
For anyone looking for an update, I can confirm that for travel through HKG on CX (including KA), the ability to check luggage through on an overnight layover of nearly 24 hours still exists. I did this a few days ago flying KA from Vietnam to HKG, with a next day flight on CX to the US, and a 21.5 layover in HKG. I also was told (at CX check-in at LAX), that I could have done this on LAX - HKG - SGN (all CX) with an approximately 16 hour layover in HKG, but I had not packed my carry-on for this, since I am used to AA overnight layovers where I always have to retrieve and re-check my bag.
Last edited by needtoescape; Mar 14, 2016 at 8:59 am Reason: Add details
Mar 12, 2016, 6:36 pm
#21
Join Date: Mar 2005
Location: Kansas City, MO
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I recently had an odd experience with checking in luggage all the way through with a 13 hour layover in Hong Kong. I flew MCI-PHX-LAX-HKG-CMB. When I checked in for the AA flight at MCI they would not send my bags all the way. They claimed there was some homeland security rule that if the layover was more than 12 hours we had to retrieve the luggage in Hong Kong and recheck it for the HKG-CMB flight. When we got to LAX, we went to the check in desk and explained the situation. They said they would find our bags and retag them them all the way through LAX-HKG-CMB.
When we arrived in CMB our luggage was there. Great job CX, lousy job AA.
When we arrived in CMB our luggage was there. Great job CX, lousy job AA.
Mar 13, 2016, 11:07 am
#22
Join Date: Nov 2006
Programs: MPC,CA,MU,AF
Posts: 8,171
I recently had an odd experience with checking in luggage all the way through with a 13 hour layover in Hong Kong. I flew MCI-PHX-LAX-HKG-CMB. When I checked in for the AA flight at MCI they would not send my bags all the way. They claimed there was some homeland security rule that if the layover was more than 12 hours we had to retrieve the luggage in Hong Kong and recheck it for the HKG-CMB flight. When we got to LAX, we went to the check in desk and explained the situation. They said they would find our bags and retag them them all the way through LAX-HKG-CMB.
When we arrived in CMB our luggage was there. Great job CX, lousy job AA.
When we arrived in CMB our luggage was there. Great job CX, lousy job AA.
Mar 13, 2016, 6:10 pm
#23
Join Date: Mar 2005
Location: Kansas City, MO
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My ticket had 4 segments. I was told by AAgent that the length of the layover over 12 hours was the problem, not the number of segments.
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Mar 13, 2016, 6:37 pm
#24
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Mar 14, 2016, 9:07 am
#25
Join Date: Oct 2009
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I recently had an odd experience with checking in luggage all the way through with a 13 hour layover in Hong Kong. I flew MCI-PHX-LAX-HKG-CMB. When I checked in for the AA flight at MCI they would not send my bags all the way. They claimed there was some homeland security rule that if the layover was more than 12 hours we had to retrieve the luggage in Hong Kong and recheck it for the HKG-CMB flight. When we got to LAX, we went to the check in desk and explained the situation. They said they would find our bags and retag them them all the way through LAX-HKG-CMB.
When we arrived in CMB our luggage was there. Great job CX, lousy job AA.
When we arrived in CMB our luggage was there. Great job CX, lousy job AA.
My return flight (DAD-HKG-LAX-CLT-IAD) was four segments (on KA, CX, and AA metal). I guess that might be why the KA agent at DAD put two tags on my checked bag.
Mar 24, 2016, 12:10 pm
#26
Join Date: Mar 2016
Location: NYC
Posts: 34
I flew LAX-HKG-DEL with a 10 hour layover in HKG. I checked my luggage in LAX and picked it up in DEL. Another time I flew CX from Sydney to HKG and 22 hours later flew CX to JFK (two separate trips, two separate reservations). CX did not let me check in my luggage early, so I ended up taking it to the hotel airport and storing it there for the 22 hours as a non-guest. I think it cost US$35? This was at least 7-8 years ago.
Mar 24, 2016, 2:17 pm
#27
Join Date: Apr 2015
Posts: 30
I usually stay at Novotel and last visit was Oct 2015, always took the hotel shuttle, havent noticed the mtr extends to the airport?
Aug 29, 2017, 4:04 am
#29
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I'm flying BKK-HKG-LAX in first class next week on Cathay. 42 hour connection in HKG.
Any chance I can check my bag through, or should I collect it, take it on the train, store it at Hong Kong station, then go back to HKG station and do in town check in when within 24 hours the next day?
Alternatively I guess I could store it at airport but that costs more and my hotel will be close to Hong Kong station anyway.
This page suggests that I can check in at a Cathay kiosk 48 hours in advance and drop bags, so could I collect the bag and immediately re-check it at the airport if they won't check it through?
https://www.cathaypacific.com/cx/en_...-in-kiosk.html
Any chance I can check my bag through, or should I collect it, take it on the train, store it at Hong Kong station, then go back to HKG station and do in town check in when within 24 hours the next day?
Alternatively I guess I could store it at airport but that costs more and my hotel will be close to Hong Kong station anyway.
This page suggests that I can check in at a Cathay kiosk 48 hours in advance and drop bags, so could I collect the bag and immediately re-check it at the airport if they won't check it through?
https://www.cathaypacific.com/cx/en_...-in-kiosk.html
Aug 29, 2017, 7:07 am
#30
Join Date: Jun 2012
Posts: 98
Sorry to highjack this thread but may I know if I need to exit immigration and retrieve my luggage, then check in again for my next destination?
I'm arriving from SIN via SQ F, with 12hrs layover and connecting to ICN via CX J. It's my first time transferring from different airlines, so not sure how is the process like.
I'm arriving from SIN via SQ F, with 12hrs layover and connecting to ICN via CX J. It's my first time transferring from different airlines, so not sure how is the process like.