Check Baggage Thru Final Destination on Overnight Connection?
Jun 14, 2016, 4:52 pm
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Check Baggage Thru Final Destination on Overnight Connection?
Not sure if this is a UA or LH question, so mod, please move as necessary
We have a FCO-MUC-LHR-ORD trip coming up with a 22-hour overnight connection in LHR. The FCO-MUC-LHR is on LH and LHR-ORD on UA. Can I have LH check our bags through to final destination (ORD)?
It would be a pain to drag our luggages (3 weeks worth of laundry for a family of 5) to central London for a night.
We have a FCO-MUC-LHR-ORD trip coming up with a 22-hour overnight connection in LHR. The FCO-MUC-LHR is on LH and LHR-ORD on UA. Can I have LH check our bags through to final destination (ORD)?
It would be a pain to drag our luggages (3 weeks worth of laundry for a family of 5) to central London for a night.
Jun 14, 2016, 7:21 pm
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Not sure if this is a UA or LH question, so mod, please move as necessary
We have a FCO-MUC-LHR-ORD trip coming up with a 22-hour overnight connection in LHR. The FCO-MUC-LHR is on LH and LHR-ORD on UA. Can I have LH check our bags through to final destination (ORD)?
It would be a pain to drag our luggages (3 weeks worth of laundry for a family of 5) to central London for a night.
We have a FCO-MUC-LHR-ORD trip coming up with a 22-hour overnight connection in LHR. The FCO-MUC-LHR is on LH and LHR-ORD on UA. Can I have LH check our bags through to final destination (ORD)?
It would be a pain to drag our luggages (3 weeks worth of laundry for a family of 5) to central London for a night.
Jun 14, 2016, 7:30 pm
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Not sure if this is a UA or LH question, so mod, please move as necessary
We have a FCO-MUC-LHR-ORD trip coming up with a 22-hour overnight connection in LHR. The FCO-MUC-LHR is on LH and LHR-ORD on UA. Can I have LH check our bags through to final destination (ORD)?
It would be a pain to drag our luggages (3 weeks worth of laundry for a family of 5) to central London for a night.
We have a FCO-MUC-LHR-ORD trip coming up with a 22-hour overnight connection in LHR. The FCO-MUC-LHR is on LH and LHR-ORD on UA. Can I have LH check our bags through to final destination (ORD)?
It would be a pain to drag our luggages (3 weeks worth of laundry for a family of 5) to central London for a night.
I think it shouldn't be a problem. We did BRE (Bremen)-FRA-SFO, LH to UA connection and had an overnight in Frankfurt I think it was probably 17 or so hours and we checked our bags through no problem.
Jun 14, 2016, 8:10 pm
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Where the initial flight in the itinerary is operated by Lufthansa, I'll move this discussion over to the Lufthansa forum
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Jun 14, 2016, 10:06 pm
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I was able to check luggage thru with a less than 24 hour connection a few times in the last several years. Never a problem. Last one was a LX aaa-xZRH-bbb with an overnighter in ZRH. I would assume that the OP can check thru.