Short check baggage EW to UA
Dec 10, 2018, 10:43 pm
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Short check baggage EW to UA
Will Eurowings permit me to short-check baggage?
I am flying from Stuttgart to Honolulu via LHR and SFO, all in business, fully flexible, one ticket.
Six hours' daytime layover at LHR. Need to collect luggage, drop it off at home, and bring new luggage back to the airport for the remainder of the journey.
Normally fly OneWorld and they would not permit this
I am flying from Stuttgart to Honolulu via LHR and SFO, all in business, fully flexible, one ticket.
Six hours' daytime layover at LHR. Need to collect luggage, drop it off at home, and bring new luggage back to the airport for the remainder of the journey.
Normally fly OneWorld and they would not permit this
Dec 10, 2018, 11:09 pm
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Don’t see why not, I have done similar on LH ticket with LH not EW.
You have a valid explanation & clearly not trying to skip the last leg.
You have a valid explanation & clearly not trying to skip the last leg.
Dec 11, 2018, 2:08 pm
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Many thanks. I recall some carriers prohibit short-checking but it sounds like that is not a problem on LH (and hopefully not on EW either) ^
Dec 11, 2018, 3:34 pm
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It is not a question of an explanation, it is a question of hidden-city ticket fraud prevention. Sometimes this works and sometimes it does not. Hopefully in this case, it seems apparent that one would not sensibly abandon the LHR-HNL segments in order to fly to LHR.
Dec 11, 2018, 7:46 pm
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Dec 14, 2018, 5:07 am
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Sorry to jump in on this, but I also have a short-checking question. We have a layover of around 9 hours in Munich after arriving from MEX (arriving MUC 5.05am and departing at 14.45) and would like to collect our luggage there. Do you think this is a reasonable amount of layover time to ask for short checking luggage? It is also possible we may need to not take our final flight, (back to AMS) but we don’t know yet for sure.
Dec 14, 2018, 5:27 am
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Sorry to jump in on this, but I also have a short-checking question. We have a layover of around 9 hours in Munich after arriving from MEX (arriving MUC 5.05am and departing at 14.45) and would like to collect our luggage there. Do you think this is a reasonable amount of layover time to ask for short checking luggage? It is also possible we may need to not take our final flight, (back to AMS) but we don’t know yet for sure.
No problem!
Dec 14, 2018, 7:55 pm
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Dec 26, 2018, 12:02 am
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EW says they will not interline to UA! At least, not from STR this morning. I am travelling on a 016 ticket, EW-UA-UA. The check-in agent at STR just now said I must collect my luggage at LHR and then check in again with UA for the remaining segments. She also said that EW does not interline to Star Alliance.
All sounds a bit suspect to me, but as I wanted my luggage to stop at LHR, it was for the best!
It was however a shame that she said she was unable to print boarding passes for the UA flights on the same ticket and itinerary
I explained that it was all on the same ticket number and itinerary, and she called a supervisor on the phone to check, but no luck. Ah well -- not a problem! Plenty of time to check in again with UA at LHR.
EW says they will not interline to UA! At least, not from STR this morning. I am travelling on a 016 ticket, EW-UA-UA. The check-in agent at STR just now said I must collect my luggage at LHR and then check in again with UA for the remaining segments. She also said that EW does not interline to Star Alliance.
All sounds a bit suspect to me, but as I wanted my luggage to stop at LHR, it was for the best!
It was however a shame that she said she was unable to print boarding passes for the UA flights on the same ticket and itinerary
I explained that it was all on the same ticket number and itinerary, and she called a supervisor on the phone to check, but no luck. Ah well -- not a problem! Plenty of time to check in again with UA at LHR.
Dec 26, 2018, 3:17 am
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EWs DCS is not setup to do complex interlines, you were lucky that you had a long layover in LHR. They can generate interline bagtags manually... but no chance to generate the boarding pases for the onward flights not operated by EW.