AI dom-int at DEL: report that luggage is not transferred
Nov 18, 2022, 11:51 am
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AI dom-int at DEL: report that luggage is not transferred
A poster on Skyscrapercity reports having to collect and recheck baggage when transferring from a domestic AI flight to an international AI flight:
https://www.skyscrapercity.com/threa...post-180495512
Can this be true? It was not true last time I made such a connection, but everything changes. I understand about incoming international flights, but this is about leaving India.
https://www.skyscrapercity.com/threa...post-180495512
Can this be true? It was not true last time I made such a connection, but everything changes. I understand about incoming international flights, but this is about leaving India.
Nov 19, 2022, 12:04 am
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Haven't done this recently but I have never encountered this problem in the past. If on one reservation then the bags are checked through.
Nov 19, 2022, 4:29 am
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Sorry that is BS, AI will accept and check thru luggage if its on the same ticket. Works like a charm in CCU. What they won't do is interline it with separate tickets.
Nov 23, 2022, 6:35 pm
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Nov 23, 2022, 7:19 pm
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Apr 24, 2023, 6:36 pm
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Travelling from BOM to DEL in Y and then onwards to International in J 4 hrs later, all on AI. The domestic is a separate ticket from the international leg. Will AI let me check the baggage through from BOM to my international destination? (also *A/Gold)
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Apr 24, 2023, 6:52 pm
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Your question was answered in post#4 by Oliver2002, above.
Apr 25, 2023, 3:43 am
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Apr 25, 2023, 5:12 am
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Apr 27, 2023, 10:38 am
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I have done several flights recently with AI, CCU-DEL-IAD and CCU-BOM-JFK. AI checked the luggage all the way through but I still had to wait in long lines at outgoing immigration at DEL and BOM. I did have to collect luggage at JFK and re-check it for the Delta flight back to DC, but re-checking a transfer bag at JFK is very easy.
May 7, 2023, 12:29 pm
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I have done several flights recently with AI, CCU-DEL-IAD and CCU-BOM-JFK. AI checked the luggage all the way through but I still had to wait in long lines at outgoing immigration at DEL and BOM. I did have to collect luggage at JFK and re-check it for the Delta flight back to DC, but re-checking a transfer bag at JFK is very easy.
May 8, 2023, 1:24 am
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Also following up - BOM-DEL-TLV
At Mumbai, business check-in, no problem checking my bag through, it did take 10 minutes and 3 staff members - don't know what they did, but the boarding pass (and the bag tag) had the PNR from the domestic flight on it - weird. I suspect they added the international flight to the domestic PNR
At Mumbai, business check-in, no problem checking my bag through, it did take 10 minutes and 3 staff members - don't know what they did, but the boarding pass (and the bag tag) had the PNR from the domestic flight on it - weird. I suspect they added the international flight to the domestic PNR