Narita Transit - Recheck in
 

HI

I will be transiting in Narita for 7 hrs from NY on the way back to Sydney, on AA then Qantas at 9.25pm. Can i check my luggage all the way through to Sydney or do i have to recheck my bags?

Do i need to go recheck in again to get boarding pass? If so, what is the time when the counters would open for the Qantas check in? I plan to recheck in before i venture out of the airport.

There should be no problem checking your luggage through to SYD and getting your NYC-NRT and NRT-SYD BPs in NYC.

QF check in at NRT will only open a few hours before departure. If you are on a single ticket then get the QF boarding pass issued at your original airport, and the bags through-tagged.

A couple of additional thoughts to what serfty and Kiwi Flyer have already said.

There should be no problem with checking the bags through but we've had problems in the past getting the NRT-Oz boarding passes issued in the U.S. It always seemed to be something to do with the fact that it was going to be "tomorrow" by the time you're leaving NRT and it was too far in advance for AA in the U.S. to be able to do the check-in on the QF flight. Hopefully, you won't have this problem but just a heads-up, in case you do. There's a 'transit' counter at NRT if needed that should be able to take care of it for you.

As for 'venturing out of the airport', where are you planning on going? I obviously don't know how familiar you are with Tokyo but it's a fair trek into town from Narita and not something I would do on a 7 hour layover. By the time you make it through immigration and into town, you wouldn't have all that long before you'd have to head back to the airport. You could go into Narita itself but again I'm not sure if the immigration and security hassle makes it worthwhile for the relatively short time you'd have available. Obviously YMMV.

Last Nov. I flew aa dca/ord, jl ord/nrt. spent the night at the airport hilton. Next day flew nrt mnl on jl. All boarding passes were issued @dca by aa.

Recently flew AA VPS/DFW/NRT JL NRT/MNL. Layover was 5 hours in NRT. BPs for NRT/MNL not available at VPS, had to recheck in at NRT. Bags checked all the way through.

-z

As long as the JFK flight is reasonably close to on time, going into Narita town should not be an issue with 7 hours. There are a number of web sites that describe the process in good detail, the main issue getting the correct train line (there are two). It's about a 10-15 minute trip.

And there is temple to see or shopping depending on your inclination.

Happy wandering

Fred