Luggage Interlining Qns: SQ - LH
Jun 20, 2013, 12:50 pm
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Luggage Interlining Qns: SQ - LH
So I have an existing OW ticket SIN - FRA - IST. (SQ then LH)
Plans changed so I have another ticket from FRA - VIE (LH)
I don't want to change my existing ticket to IST as it's plated on another *A carrier with high change fees.
Is it possible for me to check my bags to VIE? Initially I was thinking I can just check it to FRA but to recheck it in would be quite a pain. And FRA is not the most well laid out airport.
What should I tell the agent? Just tag it to VIE by showing my itinerary?
Plans changed so I have another ticket from FRA - VIE (LH)
I don't want to change my existing ticket to IST as it's plated on another *A carrier with high change fees.
Is it possible for me to check my bags to VIE? Initially I was thinking I can just check it to FRA but to recheck it in would be quite a pain. And FRA is not the most well laid out airport.
What should I tell the agent? Just tag it to VIE by showing my itinerary?
Jun 21, 2013, 4:48 pm
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Initial ticket booked as SIN - FRA - IST is issued by *A partner on an Award booking. I'm not actually worried that there will be any issues from that partner if I miss one leg.
Ticket for FRA - VIE is issued by yet a different *A partner for that LH flight.
I'm not sure if SQ will care if I don't intend to fly the FRA - IST sector (when they are not the issuing airline)? If it will be an issue then I'll just tag it to FRA and collect and re check it when I'm there.
But I'm just wondering if others have been in this scenario and if so whether it's any problem if I check it to VIE.
Ticket for FRA - VIE is issued by yet a different *A partner for that LH flight.
I'm not sure if SQ will care if I don't intend to fly the FRA - IST sector (when they are not the issuing airline)? If it will be an issue then I'll just tag it to FRA and collect and re check it when I'm there.
But I'm just wondering if others have been in this scenario and if so whether it's any problem if I check it to VIE.
Jun 22, 2013, 1:22 am
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I do not think they will let you check your luggage to different destination than your ticket shows... Showing them another ticket and admitting to sector skipping may not be such a good idea even on award booking.
Jun 23, 2013, 4:24 am
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Initial ticket booked as SIN - FRA - IST is issued by *A partner on an Award booking. I'm not actually worried that there will be any issues from that partner if I miss one leg.
Ticket for FRA - VIE is issued by yet a different *A partner for that LH flight.
I'm not sure if SQ will care if I don't intend to fly the FRA - IST sector (when they are not the issuing airline)? If it will be an issue then I'll just tag it to FRA and collect and re check it when I'm there.
But I'm just wondering if others have been in this scenario and if so whether it's any problem if I check it to VIE.
Ticket for FRA - VIE is issued by yet a different *A partner for that LH flight.
I'm not sure if SQ will care if I don't intend to fly the FRA - IST sector (when they are not the issuing airline)? If it will be an issue then I'll just tag it to FRA and collect and re check it when I'm there.
But I'm just wondering if others have been in this scenario and if so whether it's any problem if I check it to VIE.
Note that SQ will most likely not allow this if your connection is less than an hour.
Jun 23, 2013, 8:55 am
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No. Bags will be tagged only to where ticket is shown, ie IST. You may only tag it to FRA if you have say, a few hours in between so that you may say that you need to take something out for fiend you're meeting in FRA. You would thn have to clear immigration , collect your bags and clear customs before proceeding to checking for your other flight...
I would pay the "high change" fee and save the miles for the FRA-VIE flight by re-issuing it to VIE.
If none of this works, I'd try to book the second award IST-VIE.
And only if that is not an option, I'd attempt to short-check the bags to FRA.
If that fails, you could report ill or unfit to fly in FRA and have the bags pulled for you (that takes a while, say 90 minutes) ... then check them again. But it is seriously not worth doing if it can be avoided by paying a change fee.
Jun 23, 2013, 3:50 pm
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I have done something similar when I had a ticket going BKK (TG F) CDG (LH C )FRA (LH C)SEA with TG/LH. As I didn't want to fly CDG-FRA-SEA in LH C, I asked the TG agent to tag my bags up to CDG only and they complied with my request (it was an AC award ticket). I was prepared to have my bags tagged to SEA and "no show" for my CDG-FRA LH C flight if this could not be done.
Note: I had a paid ticket for CDG-FRA-SFO-YVR the next day with the FRA-SFO sector in F that I used instead.
Jun 24, 2013, 2:31 am
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I failed to board the ongoing segment from FRA and my bags flew it nonetheless.
My ongoing flight was severely delayed, so I decided to take the train and pull the bags which the luggage handling refused. The bags flew the segment without any problems.
Jun 24, 2013, 5:18 am
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Jun 24, 2013, 3:32 pm
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No. Bags will be tagged only to where ticket is shown, ie IST. You may only tag it to FRA if you have say, a few hours in between so that you may say that you need to take something out for fiend you're meeting in FRA. You would thn have to clear immigration , collect your bags and clear customs before proceeding to checking for your other flight.
Note that SQ will most likely not allow this if your connection is less than an hour.
Note that SQ will most likely not allow this if your connection is less than an hour.
So I'll check it to FRA then - have 6 hours so I have plenty of time.
That adds a few extra hours of travel time while doesn't really work for me. Plus the extra flight will be in intra-europe C - not very enjoyable either.
Jun 25, 2013, 4:16 am
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Exactly. This makes this more than risky.
You do realize that there is zero guarantee that SQ will do this for you, do you?
You do realize that there is zero guarantee that SQ will do this for you, do you?
Jun 25, 2013, 7:06 am
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It's ok I'll take the risk.
I've done this many times with different airlines and on SQ as well.
I'll tell them I have some liquid medication I'll need to take out in FRA.