Checked Baggage on Skyteam
Jan 28, 2009, 6:50 pm
#1
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Checked Baggage on Skyteam
I am going to fly on 3 consecutive (different) tickets, all with Skyteam airlines, and would like to know if it'd be possible to check my baggage just once (nw pek-nrt-dtw-atl, af atl-cdg, az cdg-fco-fra) or i'd need to get the bags and check them again every the ticket changes?
Jan 29, 2009, 1:59 pm
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Sorry to perhaps disagree but maybe I misunderstand the question.
It should be no problem to check your bag in PEK through to ATL on the first ticket provided you take consecutive flights, i.e. don't have >24 hour stopovers. Same with ATL-CDG and CDG-FCO-FRA, maybe even ATL-CDG-FCO-FRA.
However, if you want to check your bag all the way from PEK through to FRA then it probably won't be possible. Are you really going to be taking 6 flights to get from PEK to FRA?
It should be no problem to check your bag in PEK through to ATL on the first ticket provided you take consecutive flights, i.e. don't have >24 hour stopovers. Same with ATL-CDG and CDG-FCO-FRA, maybe even ATL-CDG-FCO-FRA.
However, if you want to check your bag all the way from PEK through to FRA then it probably won't be possible. Are you really going to be taking 6 flights to get from PEK to FRA?
Jan 29, 2009, 5:27 pm
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that's right, 6 segments (it's a long story!) and the question i'm asking is indeed whether I can check in a bag at PEK all the way to FRA - of course I know I can check it in individually for each ticket. But I read somewhere that Skyteam provides a seamless process to check in and handle the baggage, so I suppose this will be the test of their capabilities 
Jan 29, 2009, 7:37 pm
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IF they choose to do it - and it is a big IF - they can but they will have to manually generate a tag for you. None of the carriers have a system that can generate a tag for a 6 flight routing automatically. And I'm pretty sure that the official policy is seamless handling of bags across carriers on a single ticket, not three tickets that are booked end-on-end. You'll need an agent who REALLY knows what they are doing to make it happen.
Jan 29, 2009, 8:08 pm
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Jan 29, 2009, 8:31 pm
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If it was an exciting story, of course I'd be happy to share
but it's a result of postponed decision-making and last-minute booking of a complicated vacation. Basically it started as a trip to USA (from moscow, so svo-cdg-atl and back) that became a trip to Vegas and China (atl-las-(lax-nrt)-pek) and return via nrt and dtw, and in the end instead of going back to Moscow I'm going to Frankfurt on business (thus af's atl-cdg-svo becomes af's atl-cdg and then az's cdg-fco-fra).The tickets ended up being reasonably cheap though.
Feb 3, 2009, 12:49 pm
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Don't take the risk or the chance. Bring carry-on bagage only.
You'll have enough difficulties checking in for the separate flights. Unless you can OLCI you'll be appearing to check-in airside not landside...
Feb 8, 2009, 9:07 pm
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that's right, 6 segments (it's a long story!) and the question i'm asking is indeed whether I can check in a bag at PEK all the way to FRA - of course I know I can check it in individually for each ticket. But I read somewhere that Skyteam provides a seamless process to check in and handle the baggage, so I suppose this will be the test of their capabilities
But anyway, be aware with checked luggage when transfering at CDG!