Bag check location for SFO-Mexico
Oct 5, 2020, 2:34 pm
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Bag check location for SFO-Mexico
I should know this, but it's been years since I've flown UA to Mexico. We're departing SFO-SJD nonstop. The usual gates assigned to this flight are recently in the F1-F4 range. So I assume that for the purposes of bag check, one uses the normal T3 domestic counters, not the G concourse? However, confusing the issue is that on my day, the gate happens to be "International", which of course sometimes happens to a variety of domestic departures. So even though my destination is outside the US, and the gate is on the G concourse, I assume I still check bags in the domestic terminal, clear TSA there, and then use the airside walkway to G?
Oct 5, 2020, 2:40 pm
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Just use the ticketing counters that match the gate from which the plane is departing. If you are departing from a G gate, check in at International. If you are at an E/F gate, check in at T3.
Oct 5, 2020, 2:49 pm
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Agree....have departed to Mexico out of both E/F and G locations. But haven't flown there since Covid and the decrease in flights, so that doesn't really clarify things.
Oct 5, 2020, 6:39 pm
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This page gives opening hours for UA ticketing and bag check in SFO G:
https://www.united.com/ual/en/us/fly...nters/usa.html
https://www.united.com/ual/en/us/fly...nters/usa.html
Oct 5, 2020, 8:15 pm
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You can use either check in location (E/F or G), it shouldn't matter. Although, with Covid flight reductions staffing at the international terminal might be sparse or non existent at certain times. Probably easier to check in at E/F if you don't mind walking.
Oct 6, 2020, 12:13 am
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This page gives opening hours for UA ticketing and bag check in SFO G:
https://www.united.com/ual/en/us/fly...nters/usa.html
https://www.united.com/ual/en/us/fly...nters/usa.html
Oct 6, 2020, 8:59 am
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Per UA, International-G no longer has its check-in counters. So OP's question is irrelevant.
Oct 6, 2020, 9:32 am
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Perhaps best to leave responses to those who have actually been thru the UA international terminal
Note the A gate international terminal did close and international operations consolidated on the G side but now both are operating
Note the A gate international terminal did close and international operations consolidated on the G side but now both are operating
Oct 6, 2020, 7:32 pm
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No idea however on what hours of the day they're staffed. I would assume it would be aligned with any scheduled UA departures from the G gates.
Oct 6, 2020, 8:36 pm
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