If I fly LAX-SFO (23 hour layover)-INTL, can I check thru bags?
Sep 30, 2011, 1:54 pm
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If I fly LAX-SFO (23 hour layover)-INTL, can I check thru bags?
Want to book nearly a day layover in San Francisco on an Intl itin, can I check bags all the way through from LAX? Unclear whether 4 hour rule applies if connecting.
Sep 30, 2011, 9:37 pm
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Oct 1, 2011, 6:28 am
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4 hour rule is domestic, IIRC. 24 hours for international. You should have no problems checking it through.
Oct 1, 2011, 7:34 am
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Those are the definitions of a connection but not necessarily for through-checking bags. I don't think you can and, as noted above, even if you can I wouldn't. If you don't want to schlep it around town in San Francisco leave it in the left luggage facility at the airport but don't leave it with the baggage folks.
Oct 1, 2011, 11:20 am
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Presumably somewhere in a big pile of other bags in the baggage-handling section of the airport, being touched by baggage handlers? I doubt it's significantly more likely to come to harm than it would be on any other journey.
Oct 1, 2011, 3:18 pm
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I don't think it would come to harm...I just think you vastly increase the chance for it getting lost or misdirected.
