Bags Checked All Way Through At Bangkok To Belfast City.

[dieseldick]

i allways book a through ticket, i allways get my bags checked all way through from start ie belfast to finish bangkok or wherever else.

i flew out from belfast - glasgow - dubai - bangkok recently, bags checked all way through as in all rest of the times over the last 15 years or so.

on my return journy i went to emirates check in desk at bangkok airport. please ensure all my bags are checked right through to belfast i asked. staff told me that they could only be checked into as far as newcastle. ,y return leg was bangkok-dubai-newcastle - belfast. i argued my point that over 15 years or so my bags had allways gone right to final destinatation. arued to staff that on my outward journy my bags went all way so why not my return journey. told that emirats only flew me to newcastle and from there i was to get a flybe , i was left having to collect bags at newcastle and then checkin again to beklfast. the height of nonsense.

has anyone a clue why this happened ? i near missed my last flight to belfast as i only had 90 minutes connection.

someone said it was becuse your bags are to be offloaded on first port of call inside UK but belfast is in UK !!! and if this is so , then why hadnt it happened to me before . i fly around 3 times a year on average.

[Zacs-Master]

Which airline?

[Cloverjo]

Had you always flown with the same airline all the way through each journey before this time?
I suppose Emirates feel they've done their job in getting your bags on their flight so after that it's down to you.

[zebo]

If the journey was booked on one booking number then they should have taken your bags to your final destination. In the UK even if you land then fly on to another UK destination they should be checked all the way through, we flew into London then up to Manchester a few times with our bags checked through.

[Buenchico]

Flybe, like all budget airlines, operates a 'point-to-point' service only and doesn't recognise connecting flights.

Even if you were to fly from Belfast City Airport to Glasgow with Flybe, and then from there to Jersey with exactly the same airline, you'd still have to collect your bags from the first flight, go through the departures area and then around to the check-in area. Further, if you missed the second flight because of the late arrival of the first one, they'd almost certainly say "Nothing to do with us mate. We don't recognise the concept of 'connections'. You'll have to pay again for another flight to Jersey".

It's exactly the same with Ryanair, easyJet and all other budget operators. Each sector of your journey is regarded as entirely separate (irrespective of whether successive sectors are with the same airline or with different ones).

Budget airlines typically allow just 25 minutes to get all of the passengers and luggage off an incoming flight, clean the aircraft, refuel it, carry out all the pre-flight checks and then load all of the passengers and their luggage on for the next flight. (It's by ensuring that their aircraft are nearly always in the air that they can keep their fares so low). Their ground handling agents simply don't have time to deal with the complications that can arise when bags are transferred directly from one flight to another.

[dieseldick]

flew with emirates airlines, 5 th time this year ive made same journey with bags all way through.

explain that one, because im baffled !!

[Prudie]

as an aside I always slightly cough at Flybe being referred to as a budget airline. Yes they have offers and yes if you book months ahead you can get a good deal but Flybe mainly deals in business commuter traffic. I regularly book Southampton to Edinburgh return and it's usually the best part of £300. That's not budget in the slightest.

[ummmm]

Jeez Prudie...that certainly isn't budget. When my daughter came over from Ireland I paid £30 return.

[Prudie]

I accept that's an expensive route plus Flybe has a monopoly on domestic flights from Southampton but I've just looked for a return flight to Belfast at the end of May and it's about £136. I'm just saying I don't put Flybe on a par with Easyjet and Ryanair for cheap deals.

[bednobs]

dick, you said it was flybe, not emirates for the last leg

[dieseldick]

yes flybe only last leg from newcastle to belfast ...all rest emirates

[DTCwordfan]

First point of entry into the UK counts, Newcastle is where you clear immigration.

[Zacs-Master]

21:27. Why should Emirates take responsibility for fly Be?

[DTCwordfan]

If you were to fly private, it would be Newcastle....this is international principle, the first point of entry where immigration clearance is made, though some grant this in the host country - for example a bloody good way into the States is to fly to Dublin, clear the EU and enter the States there, effectively flying into the States on a domestic transatlantic flight. Canada does this as well.....

[237SJ]

Contrary to other answers, Emirates and Flybe have an interline/codeshare agreement so you should be able to check your bags all the way through to your final destination. The only info I can find though is that some airports don't have the "systems" to process interline baggage and I suspect that Newcastle is one of them

[dieseldick]

237SJ.

you answer is completely correct and you have confirmed my question, when i argued with checkin staff at bangkok airport about allways allowing my previous bags to be checked all way to belfast ( final destination ) one girl in particular stepped in and told me that newcastle is one airport that dont allow this, i found it strange at start when she said this but now your answer seems to confirm this, you obviously know what you are talking about.

next time if im going through any point same as newcastle i will pack hand luggage only. i suspect all the other bigger airports such as manchester,london ,birmingham will be ok.

[Zacs-Master]

So you actually knew why your bags couldn't be checked thru, you just needed someone on a public forum to confirm what the Emirates staff had told you?

[jno]

fair enough if the OP isn't prepared to take at face value what staff tell him; they're sometimes inclined to fudge issues.

[Zacs-Master]

But....not in this case.

[jno]

you don't know till you ask around.

[dieseldick]

i did not believe what the 1 checkin staff told me at the time , all other check in staff were giving different stories. as i say it had never happened before so i was mystified, now someone who is obviously in the know ( 237sj ) has confirmed it.

ok ZM ?