Ive had a couple of three continent multi flight connecting experiences in my fflyer days, but I think this one Ive just done is the weirdest one.

I started today's journey in KUL, and had to get to EZE. I did this on three different tickets, one E Ticket (award on SQ) from KUL to SIN, then the last portion of an RTW on SQ (SIN-JNB), then two separate LH award tickets; one JNB-GRU and the other GRU-EZE.

Talk about an agents nightmare checking the bags all the way through... the final itin was as follows:

KUL-SIN on SQ
SIN-JNB on SQ
JNB-GRU on SA
GRU-EZE on RG

I hope my bags make it all the way to Buenos Aires...

I once flew ATL-MEM-LAX-HKG-DEL-BOM on NW/CX/UA/AI on a mixture of paid, award and non-rev tickets. Alas, I misconnected at HKG so the bags were pulled and retagged but they had been tagged all the way through to begin with!

on one of my Star-rtw I did (and redid a second time):

COS-DEN-ASE-DEN-COS-DEN-SFO

I was sure, that the bags wouldn't make it back to DEN at ASE in time, as I booked and took the return flight right away, with only about a 15 minutes 'stay' at ASE and asked at check-in at COS to put the bags on the 'direct' routing COS-DEN-SFO. Only after about a friendly 15 miutes discussion with the supervisor they complied and did it (this was days before sep-11, not sure if they would still do it now - but the bags would just wait at DEN for me, not flying on any aircraft without me on board.

Once I had a routing that was very 3rd World:

ATL/DFW/GRU/CWB/XAP on AA/RG/JJ

AA tagged the bag from ATL through to XAP. I had to get the bag out of Customs at GRU and give it to RG for domestic routings. Some "ignoramus" at RG made it his duty to not have an AA tag in his airplanes and just ripped it out.

Guess who had to buy new clothes because the bag was left tagless at an RG lost and found in GRU for a week?

AHH, THE JOYS OF TRAVELLING IN INDIAN LAND!

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Do not sit in the back.

One time I had to check a bag for 5 segments but on just one airline: LGA-ATL-MSY-DFW-CVG-CAK

The agent said I had to pick up the bags at CVG and check them in again (apparently a limit of four segments per tag). Luckily I had booked a long layover at CVG, because it took a while to get the oversize bag, check it again while in the middle of the itinerary, and have the TSA paw through it.

I once tried to get my bags tagged MEL-SIN-BKK-SIN-AMS-CPH-GOT-FRA-TLV, flying SQ, TG, SK and LH. I was told that the computer could only handle 5 legs. So I thought since I had the longest layover in SIN, to organise everything there. Then I was told that It couldn't be tagged to SIN then BKK then back to SIN, so it was only tagged for one flight. In SIN, I was told to just leave the bags there as there'd be no point sending them to BKK only to come back. Once I had arrived in SIN back from BKK, a trainee at the transfer desk informs me that my bags can only be tagged 4 segments, meaning till FRA, but they could only give me BPs till GOT.

My suitcase never came out of the hold at CPH so I knew something was up, but I was in a rush to find my next gate so did nothing about it, assuming it was lost somewhere. In GOT, there was no transit desk so I had to exit and go to Departures/Check in. They gave me a BP but could do nothing about my bags, which I had to fix up in FRA.

At FRA of course my bags never arrived, went to LH luggage who informed me the bags never left AMS with me. Instead they had been rerouted to GOT on KL, and they would telex GOT to put them on the next FRA flight. My connecting flight to TLV wasn't for around 7 hours so I waited. Of course the bags weren't put on the next FRA flight.

LH gave me a kit and told me the'y be put on the next FRA flight and would arrive in TLV and the later that afternoon. Of course LH in TLV knew nothing about my bags, and eventually my bags were put on the TLV flight 24 hours after I flew on it.

From there I checked my bags TLV-FRA-YYZ-YUL-LGA on LH and AC. I got BPs for all segments, bagage arrived without any problems.

goodo

WOW... I need to go back to the drawingboard... I guess I was lucky with my bags, as they did arrive safely to EZE, despite a retag in GRU.