Connect, help!!!!
Aug 26, 2011 | 9:09 pm
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Connect, help!!!!
Hi!
I've just spent the last twenty minutes on Google trying to find an answer to my question, but I couldn't!
I'm flying from Singapore to Madras, Madras to Bengaluru on Jet Airways. I've got a five hour layover in Madras before my next flight to Bengaluru. (Madras and Bengaluru are two Indian cities, lol)
Anyway, I'm not too confident of the Indian baggage handlers'... will they really know that my bags need to be transferred to the other flight?
Will my baggage have a special tag (like MAA --> BLR instead of just MAA)?
THANKS
I've just spent the last twenty minutes on Google trying to find an answer to my question, but I couldn't!
I'm flying from Singapore to Madras, Madras to Bengaluru on Jet Airways. I've got a five hour layover in Madras before my next flight to Bengaluru. (Madras and Bengaluru are two Indian cities, lol)
Anyway, I'm not too confident of the Indian baggage handlers'... will they really know that my bags need to be transferred to the other flight?
Will my baggage have a special tag (like MAA --> BLR instead of just MAA)?
THANKS
Aug 26, 2011 | 11:11 pm
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Your baggage tag should list all legs and especially the final destination..
If not, you should double check the details with your airline..
Your baggage tag should list all legs and especially the final destination..
If not, you should double check the details with your airline..
Aug 26, 2011 | 11:51 pm
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Are both your legs listed on the same PNR number?
If yes, then you will be handed your MAA-BLR boarding pass as well when you check-in for your SIN-MAA flight and your bags will be through checked-in to BLR.
I'm not quite sure if Jet will do this for seperate PNR numbers but I'm sure the senior members here will be able to help you out.
If yes, then you will be handed your MAA-BLR boarding pass as well when you check-in for your SIN-MAA flight and your bags will be through checked-in to BLR.
I'm not quite sure if Jet will do this for seperate PNR numbers but I'm sure the senior members here will be able to help you out.
Aug 27, 2011 | 12:13 am
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Are both your legs listed on the same PNR number?
If yes, then you will be handed your MAA-BLR boarding pass as well when you check-in for your SIN-MAA flight and your bags will be through checked-in to BLR.
I'm not quite sure if Jet will do this for seperate PNR numbers but I'm sure the senior members here will be able to help you out.
If yes, then you will be handed your MAA-BLR boarding pass as well when you check-in for your SIN-MAA flight and your bags will be through checked-in to BLR.
I'm not quite sure if Jet will do this for seperate PNR numbers but I'm sure the senior members here will be able to help you out.
Just saying, Indian baggage handlers are no different than the baggage handlers in any other country - they send the bag where the tag says to send the bag.
Aug 27, 2011 | 3:10 am
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In India, just like most other countries, you need to clear the customs at your first port of entry. hence, if you are flying SIN-MAA, you will anyways need to collect your bags and pass them through customs.
Aug 27, 2011 | 8:10 pm
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The international and domestic terminals are less than 5 minutes walk from each other in Madras, so as you need to get your bags and pass through customs anyway, I'd just wheel them across to the domestic terminal in a luggage cart (or check into a hotel and fly the next day depending on what my arrival from SIN looks like)
Madras isn't as fancy as Changi but its baggage handling, checkin etc all work just fine.
Madras isn't as fancy as Changi but its baggage handling, checkin etc all work just fine.
Aug 27, 2011 | 10:17 pm
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Are both your legs listed on the same PNR number?
If yes, then you will be handed your MAA-BLR boarding pass as well when you check-in for your SIN-MAA flight and your bags will be through checked-in to BLR.
I'm not quite sure if Jet will do this for seperate PNR numbers but I'm sure the senior members here will be able to help you out.
If yes, then you will be handed your MAA-BLR boarding pass as well when you check-in for your SIN-MAA flight and your bags will be through checked-in to BLR.
I'm not quite sure if Jet will do this for seperate PNR numbers but I'm sure the senior members here will be able to help you out.
Aug 28, 2011 | 1:51 am
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Aug 28, 2011 | 12:40 pm
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Hi!
I've just spent the last twenty minutes on Google trying to find an answer to my question, but I couldn't!
I'm flying from Singapore to Madras, Madras to Bengaluru on Jet Airways. I've got a five hour layover in Madras before my next flight to Bengaluru. (Madras and Bengaluru are two Indian cities, lol)
Anyway, I'm not too confident of the Indian baggage handlers'... will they really know that my bags need to be transferred to the other flight?
Will my baggage have a special tag (like MAA --> BLR instead of just MAA)?
THANKS
I've just spent the last twenty minutes on Google trying to find an answer to my question, but I couldn't!
I'm flying from Singapore to Madras, Madras to Bengaluru on Jet Airways. I've got a five hour layover in Madras before my next flight to Bengaluru. (Madras and Bengaluru are two Indian cities, lol)
Anyway, I'm not too confident of the Indian baggage handlers'... will they really know that my bags need to be transferred to the other flight?
Will my baggage have a special tag (like MAA --> BLR instead of just MAA)?
THANKS
Aug 28, 2011 | 10:32 pm
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Aug 28, 2011 | 10:46 pm
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Aug 28, 2011 | 10:47 pm
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Aug 28, 2011 | 11:13 pm
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Exactly. Unless the two airlines are ticketed separately and don't talk to the others (specially the low cost ones such as Spicejet, since these operate on a standalone basis)