Overnight layover.. what happens to luggage?
I have a trip where I get to a hub (Charlotte) on Sat and then leaving on Sunday for the final destination (Carribean).
Does my luggage from my initial flight stay with the airline? Or do I need to claim it? Do I have a choice? |
If you check it to your final destination it will stay with us & you will not need to claim it.
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I believe that you have no choice. It stays with the airline.
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Originally Posted by coachrowsey
(Post 13003430)
If you check it to your final destination it will stay with us & you will not need to claim it.
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Originally Posted by bitburgr
(Post 13004512)
(bold mine) Did you mean you personally or the airline itself? :p
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I would be surprised if an automated bag tag will issue with fligths on separate calendar days with a connection time greater than 4 hours (four hours is the typical timeframe US uses to determine a connection vs a stopover). My guess is you'll need to collect in the gateway city and keep overnight. But please let us know!
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Originally Posted by Mykle
(Post 13007394)
I would be surprised if an automated bag tag will issue with fligths on separate calendar days with a connection time greater than 4 hours (four hours is the typical timeframe US uses to determine a connection vs a stopover). My guess is you'll need to collect in the gateway city and keep overnight. But please let us know!
We had bags sitting in MUC overnight before. No issues. Actually they were sitting overnight in BKK and MUC (HKT-BKK-FRA-MUC-CLT route). |
Why, because four hours is the typical timeframe US uses to determine a connection vs a stopover. Arriving one day, with a stopover the next day, more than 4 hours later, I'd be willing to bet the system will only check to the gateway city. Will be interesting to find out what happens.
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Just had the opposite situation. Flew from STT to CLT on Saturday. No flights to LAS till Sunday ( airline cancelled connecting flight to LAS after original reservation). Both boarding passes were printed but baggage was first checked only to CLT. We had to recheck it the next day to LAS after a short night at the Holiday Inn - not bad actually.
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Originally Posted by Mykle
(Post 13008099)
Why, because four hours is the typical timeframe US uses to determine a connection vs a stopover. Arriving one day, with a stopover the next day, more than 4 hours later, I'd be willing to bet the system will only check to the gateway city. Will be interesting to find out what happens.
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Originally Posted by Mykle
(Post 13007394)
I would be surprised if an automated bag tag will issue with fligths on separate calendar days with a connection time greater than 4 hours (four hours is the typical timeframe US uses to determine a connection vs a stopover). My guess is you'll need to collect in the gateway city and keep overnight. But please let us know!
Folks this is routine stuff here. A flight comes in from xyz & depts next morn to xyy bags are checked all the through to final destination. The bags are kept in a secure area & go on the flight the next morning. It's not a problem. |
Originally Posted by coachrowsey
(Post 13010253)
It's not a problem.
Unless you are expecting to get your bag back and need something from it. |
Originally Posted by Mykle
(Post 13008099)
Why, because four hours is the typical timeframe US uses to determine a connection vs a stopover. Arriving one day, with a stopover the next day, more than 4 hours later, I'd be willing to bet the system will only check to the gateway city. Will be interesting to find out what happens.
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Originally Posted by bbbb
(Post 13011960)
Unless you are expecting to get your bag back and need something from it.
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Originally Posted by bbbb
(Post 13011960)
Unless you are expecting to get your bag back and need something from it.
This doesn't exactly answer the OP's question about a scheduled overnight but it does allow me to share a TRUE story about overnight delays and luggage... It's 2 AM at the luggage carousel, a fellow passenger on this grounded flight was quite anxious about her checked luggage. This highly intoxicated lady, appearing older than her years, had just returned from ANC with a SALMON iced down in her luggage. Not dry ice, but real H2O ice. Ms. Einstein proceeded to let everyone know in her cigarette-rasp voice about her precious package and was distraught over whether to either preserve it with hotel ice in the bathtub OR if enough passengers were hungry she would find somewhere to cook it tonight. Oh, and there had better be a bar open this time of night too! Unfortunately the story doesn't end here. Her luggage hits the carousel with a squish and an odor proclaiming that the long trip from ANC and delays on the hot tarmac in ATL was too long for Mr. Fish. She goes into a tirade about suing DL for ruining her prize. This tirade continued at the Day's Inn where she cruised the halls all night with her rotting prize and a bottle of generic label vodka and banging on doors looking for someone to "party with her and her salmon!" Thankfully neither she nor her salmon were anywhere to be found the next morning on the early flight out to MOB. |
Originally Posted by bbbb
(Post 13011960)
Unless you are expecting to get your bag back and need something from it.
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Flew ADB (Izmir, Turkey) -> MUC -> CLT earlier this year... Overnight in MUC as the connection was overnight. I asked the bag to NOT be checked to final. No problem, picked it up in MUC that night, rechecked in the morning to CLT.
HTSC |
Just flew LAS to PSP via SFO, and had to argue with the station manager in LAS for 30+ mins to check to my final destination. She said that 4+ hours is considered a stopover and have to pick up your luggage, re check it, and pay an additional $25 fee that I already paid to a gateway city.
She claimed it was a security issue, even though there were many holes in her story. She finally relented, and forced the system to accept it, but made it very clear that US Airways does not do this. :td: I can see why people hate this airline, as I have never heard of such a ludicrous rule in all of my travels. |
Originally Posted by kwflyer
(Post 13022087)
She said that 4+ hours is considered a stopover and have to pick up your luggage, re check it, and pay an additional $25 fee that I already paid to a gateway city.
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Originally Posted by kwflyer
(Post 13022087)
She said that 4+ hours is considered a stopover
Obviously, the agent and supervisor were confusing an overnight connection with a stopover. If that 4+ hour layover had been between flights operating the same day, they'd probably have checked your bags through to the destination with no problem. A perfect example is LAX-PHL-LHR - US shows an early departure from LAX with a 6:45 layover in PHL before departing to LHR. That would not be a stopover. But if you booked to arrive in PHL tonight and take tomorrow's LHR flight, it would be a stopover. Jim |
Originally Posted by bkafrick
(Post 13023254)
Your profile says your *A Silver... You shouldnt have to pay any baggage fees regardless?
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Originally Posted by BoeingBoy
(Post 13024188)
Only if there is an earlier flight and you choose to book an itinerary that has the longer layover.
Obviously, the agent and supervisor were confusing an overnight connection with a stopover. If that 4+ hour layover had been between flights operating the same day, they'd probably have checked your bags through to the destination with no problem. A perfect example is LAX-PHL-LHR - US shows an early departure from LAX with a 6:45 layover in PHL before departing to LHR. That would not be a stopover. But if you booked to arrive in PHL tonight and take tomorrow's LHR flight, it would be a stopover. Jim |
Originally Posted by kwflyer
(Post 13029665)
I believe the rules for star alliance are <24 hours is a layover and >24 hours is a stopover.
Jim |
As an elite, is it possible to move up if you have an overnight layover? Let's say you are flying from AAA-PHL-BBB and your flight from AAA arrives at 6pm and your flight to BBB leaves the next morning at 7am.
If there is another flight from PHL-BBB that leaves at 8pm, would you be able to move up to that flight as an elite? Anyone have any experience with this? |
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