INTL transit at DEL T3
May 12, 2018 | 2:19 am
#1
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INTL transit at DEL T3
I will fly from NRT to DEL on JL and there I connect (one ticket) to HKG on CX. As it is intl > intl, I don't need any visa. Also, I understand that the lounge (Plaza Premium) is open 24 hours. Sounds OK, so far.
But I'm wondering if I will in fact be able to get my CX boarding pass at NRT check-in. The DEL departure is only 16 hours after the NRT departure (i.e., <24) but it is after midnight so, technically, the next day. If I am not able to get both BPs at the NRT check-in, will I be able to get the CX BP at the DEL transfer desk immediately when I arrive?
I am a bit nervous because I had a similar sort of transit onto CX at CMB last year and the CMB transfer desk wasn't able to give me my CX BP until the local CX check-in opened, three hours before departure. I didn't want to go landside, and without a BP I couldn't get into the lounge (I did ask), so I had to cool my heels for several hours in the hallway waiting to get the BP.
I truly hope I'm not in for something like that again at DEL.
But I'm wondering if I will in fact be able to get my CX boarding pass at NRT check-in. The DEL departure is only 16 hours after the NRT departure (i.e., <24) but it is after midnight so, technically, the next day. If I am not able to get both BPs at the NRT check-in, will I be able to get the CX BP at the DEL transfer desk immediately when I arrive?
I am a bit nervous because I had a similar sort of transit onto CX at CMB last year and the CMB transfer desk wasn't able to give me my CX BP until the local CX check-in opened, three hours before departure. I didn't want to go landside, and without a BP I couldn't get into the lounge (I did ask), so I had to cool my heels for several hours in the hallway waiting to get the BP.
I truly hope I'm not in for something like that again at DEL.
May 12, 2018 | 1:36 pm
#2
Join Date: Sep 2005
Location: TPE / HSZ
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I will fly from NRT to DEL on JL and there I connect (one ticket) to HKG on CX. As it is intl > intl, I don't need any visa. Also, I understand that the lounge (Plaza Premium) is open 24 hours. Sounds OK, so far.
But I'm wondering if I will in fact be able to get my CX boarding pass at NRT check-in. The DEL departure is only 16 hours after the NRT departure (i.e., <24) but it is after midnight so, technically, the next day. If I am not able to get both BPs at the NRT check-in, will I be able to get the CX BP at the DEL transfer desk immediately when I arrive?
I am a bit nervous because I had a similar sort of transit onto CX at CMB last year and the CMB transfer desk wasn't able to give me my CX BP until the local CX check-in opened, three hours before departure. I didn't want to go landside, and without a BP I couldn't get into the lounge (I did ask), so I had to cool my heels for several hours in the hallway waiting to get the BP.
I truly hope I'm not in for something like that again at DEL.
But I'm wondering if I will in fact be able to get my CX boarding pass at NRT check-in. The DEL departure is only 16 hours after the NRT departure (i.e., <24) but it is after midnight so, technically, the next day. If I am not able to get both BPs at the NRT check-in, will I be able to get the CX BP at the DEL transfer desk immediately when I arrive?
I am a bit nervous because I had a similar sort of transit onto CX at CMB last year and the CMB transfer desk wasn't able to give me my CX BP until the local CX check-in opened, three hours before departure. I didn't want to go landside, and without a BP I couldn't get into the lounge (I did ask), so I had to cool my heels for several hours in the hallway waiting to get the BP.
I truly hope I'm not in for something like that again at DEL.
May 12, 2018 | 1:55 pm
#3
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Join Date: Jan 2005
Location: Tampere
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Thanks for your reply.
No, it's not. That's why in my original message I mentioned that it was 16 hours from NRT departure to DEL departure, which means that when I check in at NRT it might be 18? 19? before my CX flight departs. In any event, certainly LESS than 24. Self-printing CX boarding passes can be problematic, as I found at CMB last year.
No, it's not. That's why in my original message I mentioned that it was 16 hours from NRT departure to DEL departure, which means that when I check in at NRT it might be 18? 19? before my CX flight departs. In any event, certainly LESS than 24. Self-printing CX boarding passes can be problematic, as I found at CMB last year.
May 12, 2018 | 2:42 pm
#4
Join Date: Sep 2005
Location: TPE / HSZ
Programs: CX GO (=SPH), IHG Diamond Amb, Hertz 5*, Accor, Hilton, National
Posts: 7,226
No, it's not. That's why in my original message I mentioned that it was 16 hours from NRT departure to DEL departure, which means that when I check in at NRT it might be 18? 19? before my CX flight departs. In any event, certainly LESS than 24. Self-printing CX boarding passes can be problematic, as I found at CMB last year.