Flight between HNL-LAX-YVR checked luggage
Dec 21, 2018, 5:55 am
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Flight between HNL-LAX-YVR checked luggage
Hello guys, I have a quick question regarding a flight I will take in a few weeks.
I'm travelling from HNL to YVR with a stopover in LAX with checked luggage, so my question is if I can check the bags all the way thru YVR in HNL or if I have to pick them up at LAX and recheck them again?
I'm travelling from HNL to YVR with a stopover in LAX with checked luggage, so my question is if I can check the bags all the way thru YVR in HNL or if I have to pick them up at LAX and recheck them again?
Dec 21, 2018, 7:04 am
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Hello guys, I have a quick question regarding a flight I will take in a few weeks.
I'm travelling from HNL to YVR with a stopover in LAX with checked luggage, so my question is if I can check the bags all the way thru YVR in HNL or if I have to pick them up at LAX and recheck them again?
I'm travelling from HNL to YVR with a stopover in LAX with checked luggage, so my question is if I can check the bags all the way thru YVR in HNL or if I have to pick them up at LAX and recheck them again?
Dec 21, 2018, 1:29 pm
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You said you have a "stopover." I don't know if you used this term precisely or informally, but the difference between a stopover and a connection matters.
In a stopover, you leave LAX airport, spend time in the Los Angeles area (perhaps a few days), and return to board your flight to YVR. In that case, you will enter the U.S. like any other arriving passenger. You will have to collect your bags, clear customs, etc., etc. U.S. immigration doesn't care that you will fly to Canada a few days later.
In a connection, you go directly from one plane to the next. That's where the specific airlines matter, since you can make some connections at LAX without going landside but not others. I'll let people who are more familiar with LAX answer that question once you give us the necessary information.
In a stopover, you leave LAX airport, spend time in the Los Angeles area (perhaps a few days), and return to board your flight to YVR. In that case, you will enter the U.S. like any other arriving passenger. You will have to collect your bags, clear customs, etc., etc. U.S. immigration doesn't care that you will fly to Canada a few days later.
In a connection, you go directly from one plane to the next. That's where the specific airlines matter, since you can make some connections at LAX without going landside but not others. I'll let people who are more familiar with LAX answer that question once you give us the necessary information.
Dec 21, 2018, 3:14 pm
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You said you have a "stopover." I don't know if you used this term precisely or informally, but the difference between a stopover and a connection matters.
In a stopover, you leave LAX airport, spend time in the Los Angeles area (perhaps a few days), and return to board your flight to YVR. In that case, you will enter the U.S. like any other arriving passenger. You will have to collect your bags, clear customs, etc., etc. U.S. immigration doesn't care that you will fly to Canada a few days later.
In a connection, you go directly from one plane to the next. That's where the specific airlines matter, since you can make some connections at LAX without going landside but not others. I'll let people who are more familiar with LAX answer that question once you give us the necessary information.
In a stopover, you leave LAX airport, spend time in the Los Angeles area (perhaps a few days), and return to board your flight to YVR. In that case, you will enter the U.S. like any other arriving passenger. You will have to collect your bags, clear customs, etc., etc. U.S. immigration doesn't care that you will fly to Canada a few days later.
In a connection, you go directly from one plane to the next. That's where the specific airlines matter, since you can make some connections at LAX without going landside but not others. I'll let people who are more familiar with LAX answer that question once you give us the necessary information.
Dec 21, 2018, 7:01 pm
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You said you have a "stopover." I don't know if you used this term precisely or informally, but the difference between a stopover and a connection matters.
In a stopover, you leave LAX airport, spend time in the Los Angeles area (perhaps a few days), and return to board your flight to YVR. In that case, you will enter the U.S. like any other arriving passenger. You will have to collect your bags, clear customs, etc., etc. U.S. immigration doesn't care that you will fly to Canada a few days later.
In a connection, you go directly from one plane to the next. That's where the specific airlines matter, since you can make some connections at LAX without going landside but not others. I'll let people who are more familiar with LAX answer that question once you give us the necessary information.
In a stopover, you leave LAX airport, spend time in the Los Angeles area (perhaps a few days), and return to board your flight to YVR. In that case, you will enter the U.S. like any other arriving passenger. You will have to collect your bags, clear customs, etc., etc. U.S. immigration doesn't care that you will fly to Canada a few days later.
In a connection, you go directly from one plane to the next. That's where the specific airlines matter, since you can make some connections at LAX without going landside but not others. I'll let people who are more familiar with LAX answer that question once you give us the necessary information.
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Dec 21, 2018, 8:13 pm
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Dec 21, 2018, 9:46 pm
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I have done this trip many times over the past decade, connecting in either LAX or SFO. I have always had my bags checked through.
If you are on a red-eye departure from HNL, which by the sound of the connection length is likely, note that you can check your bags in way ahead of departure at HNL.
Last year, I had to leave a rented house at 10 a.m., got to the airport before 11 am, and checked my luggage in for a 10 pm departure to SFO. That made going to the art museum easy to do, followed by dinner in town, then a return to the airport.
If you are on a red-eye departure from HNL, which by the sound of the connection length is likely, note that you can check your bags in way ahead of departure at HNL.
Last year, I had to leave a rented house at 10 a.m., got to the airport before 11 am, and checked my luggage in for a 10 pm departure to SFO. That made going to the art museum easy to do, followed by dinner in town, then a return to the airport.
Dec 22, 2018, 8:20 am
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I'm assuming you misread HNL as HND or something else, but since this topic has come up more than once on FT -- with funny responses -- it's worth reassuring the OP that you do not need to clear US immigration and customs on a domestic flight between Honolulu and Los Angeles.
Dec 22, 2018, 1:16 pm
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Dec 22, 2018, 4:57 pm
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