buying a ticket A - B - C and stopping at B

[Austman]

I hope they do then !

Here's a more recent (2018) post from FT that also suggests that TK will:

short check baggage ? - FlyerTalk Forums

But, as I know from first hand knowledge, not every airline will allow this! It could be an expensive mistake if you get it wrong.

 

[MEL_Traveller]

None of that has applied to the times I've had difficulty with short-checking.

But if TK will do it, then all should be good!

Can you share the airline? I sounds like it would be a useful data point!

 

[Austman]

Can you share the airline? I sounds like it would be a useful data point!

The most recent (2017) was UL (SriLankan) LHR-CMB-xx_ in J. LHR check-in and service desks both refused to short-check luggage to CMB despite a land-side transit hotel stay there at UL's expense. A follow up on arrival in CMB, even at the baggage handling counter, gave the same result.

I have a couple more UL long hauls with CMB transits coming up. I might retest the situation.

Having the luggage during the transit stay was about convenience and luggage security concerns for my +1.

 

[ozbeachbabe]

Yes stupid of me - of course we will have our bags. Hmmm. Would it be possible that for not completing the journey VA would refuse to credit SCs and points I wonder?

I believe I read somewhere that EK won't post points until all sectors have been completed which could be problematic if you are nesting a fare and have several months between your forward and return legs.

It would be annoying if you needed your outbound flights to post asap in the case where you flew 23 Jun and your ff membership year ended 30 June eg for WP requalification.

I booked a Qantas flight I think from HKG-SYD-BNE. Some time after booking my plans changed and I decided to travel to BNE later and purchased another revenue ticket SYD-BNE.

I was checked through to BNE, collected luggage in SYD and went home. Received a call from gate if I was joining flight and said "No".

That's because you were showing as a pax being checked in with bags and were a gate noshow. They would've had to do a seat check plus checked your bags weren't loaded before offloading you which can delay flights in some cases.

If you tell the airline before you leave the airport you're not travelling SYD/BNE and have your bags with you they can cancel you off the flight at that moment.

 

[JohnK]

That's because you were showing as a pax being checked in with bags and were a gate noshow. They would've had to do a seat check plus checked your bags weren't loaded before offloading you which can delay flights in some cases.

If you tell the airline before you leave the airport you're not travelling SYD/BNE and have your bags with you they can cancel you off the flight at that moment.

Intetesting. Bags were tagged to BNE but I collected bags in SYD and did not transfer bags to domestic connection. Do the bags still show up in system as loaded for flight?

 

[henleybeach]

Thought I’d post a update -
After booking the CPH - Bucharest via a 16 hour overnight layover in IST with Turkish airlines, we successfully short checked our luggage to IST.
At the check-in counter I just asked if she could check only to IST as we are staying overnight in a hotel and she said it was not a problem. A saving a $200 Pp for the ticket , it was $400pp for the CPH-IST flight or $200 for the CPH-BUCHAREST flight via IST.

 

[Quickstatus]

Daughter had a PEK-SFO plus LAX-SYD 3 weeks later
One ticket, same airline

The 2 flights together were cheaper than PEK-SFO alone.

Suited her just fine!

 

[ozbeachbabe]

Intetesting. Bags were tagged to BNE but I collected bags in SYD and did not transfer bags to domestic connection. Do the bags still show up in system as loaded for flight?

You would still appear as a gate noshow with bags as simply not rechecking the bags to the onward domestic flight does not remove those bags against your name nor flag you as someone who already has the bags with them not taking that flight. The gate agent would need to call the movement controller who has to check the baggage system for that flight to ascertain whether your bags had been scanned and loaded.

Before such systems were in place the baggage handlers would have had to strip the hold (ie totally unload and reload bags on that a/c) looking for bags that weren't there in the first place. If you were a pax on that flight that incurred a delay in excess of 30 minutes I imagine you'd be mighty cheezed off.

 

[JohnK]

If you were a pax on that flight that incurred a delay in excess of 30 minutes I imagine you'd be mighty cheezed off.

Thanks. Interesting information @ozbeachbabe. I'll make a note to short check bags next time plans my change.

I've been delayed more times than I care to remember for every reason possible but that time I didn't delay anyone as I received a call during the boarding process which I would normally get when I'm running late from lounge.

 

[Ausbt]

Just posting back after our SYD-HKG-SYD-OOL in VA J where one pax left the journey on return to SYD. All points and SCs received (well, except for that last SYD-OOL sector of course). Arrived in SYD, collected bags, sent pax#2 off for a taxi and I flew on to OOL and then back to SYD that arvo purely for the points and SCs. There was certainly a few extra days delay in pax#2s points being processed though. Since the BPs were issued in HKG naturally I took pax#2's BP to the transfer desk and advised "madam won't be continuing the journey" so that they didn't start calling her name.

A fantastic trip, great service on VA J and all for $1.7K per pax as part of a 30% off deal. If you are wondering why it wasn't OOL-SYD-HKG-SYD-OOL, well it originally was. VA had made a departure time change thus opening the opportunity to cancel a positioning flight to OOL and depart out of home-base SYD. Nice!