Interline
Dec 1, 2021 | 5:53 am
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They have interline ticketing agreements, but DL will not check through your baggage on separate tickets if that is what you mean to ask as JL is not a DL partner.
https://pro.delta.com/content/agency...e-policy-.html
https://pro.delta.com/content/agency...e-policy-.html
Dec 1, 2021 | 9:22 am
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By policy no they won't. However IME AUS/SAT DL agents are willing to do it. I do it with AY to various places via LAX/JFK and HEL.
If they do they're being nice. If they refuse don't get upset as technically policy doesn't include JL.
If they do they're being nice. If they refuse don't get upset as technically policy doesn't include JL.
Dec 1, 2021 | 10:45 am
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How come back in the old days they would just use one of those pink "interline" baggage tags where they wrote the final destination and whatever airline on it? Can't they just do something similar today on the computer and have it print out a tag for whatever destination, using whatever airline code they want? Seems easy enough.. Any airline should be able to transfer bags to another at an airport where they both have a presence..
Dec 1, 2021 | 11:26 am
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Seems like it should be easy enough but some agents just want to do the bare minimum. Departing SAN on DL on an international itinerary with two different tickets on a variety of partner carriers was no sweat for an agent to check bags through to the final destination. Returning on KLM and connecting via Aeromexico with two different AM tickets was too much for the agent to digest. She wouldn't even look at the second ticket so we had to claim bags during the journey.
If it's not a true Delta partner, all bets are off. The same friendly SAN crew wouldn't check a bag through on a Hawaiian Airlines connecting flight booked on a separate ticket.
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If it's not a true Delta partner, all bets are off. The same friendly SAN crew wouldn't check a bag through on a Hawaiian Airlines connecting flight booked on a separate ticket.
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Dec 1, 2021 | 12:53 pm
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How come back in the old days they would just use one of those pink "interline" baggage tags where they wrote the final destination and whatever airline on it? Can't they just do something similar today on the computer and have it print out a tag for whatever destination, using whatever airline code they want? Seems easy enough.. Any airline should be able to transfer bags to another at an airport where they both have a presence..
Seems like it should be easy enough but some agents just want to do the bare minimum. Departing SAN on DL on an international itinerary with two different tickets on a variety of partner carriers was no sweat for an agent to check bags through to the final destination. Returning on KLM and connecting via Aeromexico with two different AM tickets was too much for the agent to digest. She wouldn't even look at the second ticket so we had to claim bags during the journey.
https://pro.delta.com/content/agency...e-policy-.html
Dec 2, 2021 | 12:45 am
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How come back in the old days they would just use one of those pink "interline" baggage tags where they wrote the final destination and whatever airline on it? Can't they just do something similar today on the computer and have it print out a tag for whatever destination, using whatever airline code they want? Seems easy enough.. Any airline should be able to transfer bags to another at an airport where they both have a presence..
Jan 23, 2022 | 9:26 am
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It has to do with liability for lost/damage bags and also bag fees now. DL is still far more generous than AA is (though I think less generous that Star Alliance). AA won't even through check bags on separate AA tickets. If on separate tickets, AA will force you to claim bags and recheck between tickets. DL will through check on separate DL to DL and DL to several other partners, even if on separate tickets.
What you define as the bare minimum may well be driven by policy and each airline has their own. DL will through-check to several partners if on separate tickets, but will not do so (or at a minimum, is under no obligation to do so) on separate tickets for those airlines not listed here.
https://pro.delta.com/content/agency...e-policy-.html
What you define as the bare minimum may well be driven by policy and each airline has their own. DL will through-check to several partners if on separate tickets, but will not do so (or at a minimum, is under no obligation to do so) on separate tickets for those airlines not listed here.
https://pro.delta.com/content/agency...e-policy-.html
Just for reference agents at AUS checked my mother and mine bags through across separate tickets. It was actually a brand new agent. She knew it could be done, but didn't remember how. Asked redcoat and two minutes later tags printed out.
Jan 23, 2022 | 10:41 am
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Bags also got lost more frequently. Nowadays the airlines need an agreement for it to be possible even if on one ticket. VA (NOT VS) has a bag agreement with KLM, but not AF. Thus even on one ticket BNE-SYD-TPE-AMS-CDG I had to pickup bags at AMS as AF operated last segment.
Jan 23, 2022 | 10:55 am
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The ticket interline is separate from the baggage interline agreement. If you goto EF and pull up interline agreements it will show two different sections. One for ticket,, one for bags..