Hi:
I will be traveling to France in December, on an Air France coded ticket, but the flight is operated by Delta. I'm wondering if I will be charged $50 for the second baggage. An article published in the chicagotribune (http://www.eturbonews.com/11262/bagg...tional-flights) a few days ago state that
"Air France doesn't charge luggage fees for flights that it code-shares with Delta, its partner in the SkyTeam alliance, even if the flight is operated by Delta."
Is this true that I won't be charged baggage fees even though the flight is operated by Delta?

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I'd be very surprised if this were the case. Generally speaking the baggage policies and fees are set by the carrier with which you check the bags and they are not variable based on the ticketing carrier.

Hi
I am going through the same issue. have a AF ticket operated by DL from JFK to ATH. I called AF they told me I pay their fees. Called DL they told me I pay their fees. Went on DL website and found this

http://images.delta.com.edgesuite.ne...riage_intl.pdf

"Governing Rules for Codeshare Flights
For codeshare services, each customer will be entitled to the free baggage allowance and charged the
excess baggage charges (when applicable) of the Marketing Carrier, regardless of who the Operating Carrier is. If the need arises for operational or safety related reasons, the Operating Carrier may require that
carry-on baggage be checked at the gate, but no additional excess baggage charges will apply."
Marketing carrier being AF. Feel so much better. Saved 200 bucks

Hi,

This is my first post on the forum.. a newbie here and facing problems finding the right thread to ask my ques, so doing it here...

I have a Delhi-Paris ticket sold by Air India even though flight is operated by Air France. Whose baggage allowance rules would be applicable?

Looking for an early response as I have got this flight to catch in a few hours...

I have a similar situation. I am in the middle of an itinerary AMS-SEA-AMS in economy class, Gold and Silver members with Air France/KLM Flying Blue. We are flying on a KLM flights operared by NWA, although with the merger and the increasingly unintelligable baggage rules, it it always confusing whose rules we are following.

On the outbound portion, we were both, as elite members, to check-in two bags free of charge as expected. No problems.

But it now seems NWA/Delta will only allow us to check-in 1 bag free of charge, despite having bought KLM tickets. I sent an e-mail to NWA and received a response that was basically a copy and paste of the baggage rules.

Can anyboyd help? Would it be better to post in the Delta forum?

Probably not. You're operating under DL's rules since they operate the flight that you are checking in for. Even worse, Delta no longer officially extends an increased checked baggage allowance to ST E/E+ members.

I'd ask at checkin but also be ready to fork over the $50/bag.

Thanks. This is what I expected. But then what of the Terms and Conditions quoted above? I think I'll shoot an e-mail over to Delta and print of the T&Cs to show at check-in. My flight is a KLM codeshare afterall, the marketing airline.

Seems pretty stingy and pointless on the part of ST airlines not to extend this benefit to partner airlines, especially in this day and age of codeshares. The only reason KLM does not operate the AMS-SEA direct market itself it because NWA has been operating it jointly with KLM. So what to do as a KLM/AF member, and vica versa? SkyTeam advertises itself as an alliance with seamless connectivity... if not even elite members can seamlessly travel on partners, what's the point really? Anyway...

if you bought your tickets before AF made the change your ticket will still read: 2PC ... bring a printout with you, this should help a lot. My wife flew last week, but I bought her ticket in June, the ticket read 2PC and there was no problem at all (she has no status)

....read wrong paragraph sorry

Somewhat related.
I was traveling on dl with a 057 ticketnumber, issued by af af codeshare numbers. 4 out of 5 segments were operated by dl only only 1 (cgn-cdg) was actually af. As a result we got two free bags checked per person in y without any surcharges, double what we woukd have gotten if we had flown all dl