Note that it is possible and easy to have two tickets in one PNR which used to be a way around this. But various European airlines (e.g. BA & SK) have started reading the letter of the rule on this when problems occur.

i.e. will check bags through etc on one PNR, but if you miss a flight due to delay/cancellations they will throw the two ticket numbers back at you.

Mark

Wouldn't it be nice if baggage handling got a bit more automated, so that in a transfer situation it could be clearly demonstrated that (e.g.) BA transferred the bags to (e.g.) EI at a specific time, and therefore the fact that they got lost rests with (e.g.) EI. I can understand the current position where BA doesn't want to accept responsibility for what subsequent carriers do or don't do with interlined bags.

Pity the airlines can't get together and look at the bigger picture, and so benefit the customer.

How do you get two tickets into one PNR?

Indeed. I've managed to do it with two tickets from the same airline, by linking the PNRs, but nothing more beyond that. Details, please.

Actually, to be honest I do not know exactly, my travel agent does it and does it quite frequently (I would imagine it would not be possible with most online booking systems). She basically books all the legs as one trip and then tries different combinations to see if she can get the price down to take advantage of various regional pricing benefits. Of course it is all ticketed at the same time.

Of course the airlines hate this, so when it goes pear shaped and someone from ticketing looks at it, they can deny that they are responsible to get you all of the way home, only as far as the relevant ticket. Which by the way strikes me as pretty ....ty as the regular punter with one booking ref. and an eticket receipt has no way of knowing this is what the agent did.

But refering to the topic it is one way to have separate tickets and bags checked through - as the person at checkin has no reason to spot it or worry about such things.

As to 'linking' PNRs I would be careful about this, I once contacted BA to ask them to note this (more so they would know where I was) and then read the rule book and wrote in BOLD in both PNRs that they were not responsible if I was late or delayed. I only actually found this out later when discussing seating with another agent a few weeks later.

Mark

My DONE4 currently consists of 1 paper ticket (originaly 20 segments and 4 ticket numbers) and 3 etickets. This happened after a reissue, where several coupons where replaced by etickets.

Checkmytrip shows 4 ticket numbers, 1 for the paper ticket and three of the etickets. This was issues by BA, and seems to work so far.