Transit in Singapore and luggage

[Ringer]

I am on a Qantas ticket flying Emirates to Singapore the Jetstar to Bangkok.Am I able to check luggage through to bangkok or do I have to collect in Singapore and re check in? I have associated my Jetstar with my Qantas FF program.Thanks in advance

 

[Cynicor]

You can go to a transfer counter and they will check you in in SIN, without having to collect your luggage etc. through checking is hit and miss I believe.

Make sure you have your luggage tags /slips and the itinerary for SIN so they can find your luggage.

 

[JohnK]

You can use transfer counter as mentioned but be careful your luggage is not always going to arrive.

I did this twice again recently in SIN but the first time did not work out.

Got to SIN on QF from BNE and was transferring to MH at T2. Went to transfer counter in T2 and showed them luggage tags and they gave me boarding passes with assurance was going to be OK. Arrived in BKK that night and no luggage or golf clubs. They were not loaded in SIN for whatever reason. Did not arrive until next afternoon but I lost a day as I was not able to golf that morning.

 

[Pablo]

Would this be the same with Jetstar to QF? I'm flying Jetstar from Denpasar to Sin and then Sin to SYD. Can I just do the same in sin (go to transfer desk and ask them to transfer?)

 

[JohnK]

No problem going to transfer desk in SIN for JQ flights. Just check which terminal you arrive and depart and go to departing terminal.

 

[ozbeachbabe]

I am on a Qantas ticket flying Emirates to Singapore then Jetstar to Bangkok. Am I able to check luggage through to bangkok or do I have to collect in Singapore and re check in? I have associated my Jetstar with my Qantas FF program.Thanks in advance

If your flight Australia to SIN is operated by EK, then the question is do EK have an interline baggage agreement with JQ.

If you are on separate tickets I doubt it as not even QF interline to JQ (any longer) on separate bookings.

Whether or not you have entered a QF f/flyer number in the JQ booking has nothing to do with it.

 

[JohnK]

Do not worry about checking luggage through to BKK. Just use transfer counter in SIN.

 

[Pablo]

Can I ask a dumb question in regards to using this transfer counter? Does it work that you luggage will come off the belt in the arrivals area and someone from the airline will just go and find you bag doing it's 50th cycle of the baggage carousel and grab it and re check it?

Is that how it works?

 

[Austman]

Can I ask a dumb question in regards to using this transfer counter? Does it work that you luggage will come off the belt in the arrivals area and someone from the airline will just go and find you bag doing it's 50th cycle of the baggage carousel and grab it and re check it?

Is that how it works?

I suspect that once the transfer desk "grabs" it, it doesn't even get to the belt. And if it was there already it gets removed when it goes around a cycle (behind the scenes). And if those don't work, the 'catcher' gets informed and the bag is re-directed.

 

[Austman]

The transfer desk has been able to tell me, later, that my bag was successfully redirected too. I've checked when them before boarding my next flight.

 

[JohnK]

Can I ask a dumb question in regards to using this transfer counter? Does it work that you luggage will come off the belt in the arrivals area and someone from the airline will just go and find you bag doing it's 50th cycle of the baggage carousel and grab it and re check it?

Is that how it works?

I suspect that once the transfer desk "grabs" it, it doesn't even get to the belt. And if it was there already it gets removed when it goes around a cycle (behind the scenes). And if those don't work, the 'catcher' gets informed and the bag is re-directed.

I suspect that is not always the case.

On one of my last 2 visits to transfer desk 3-4 weeks ago I was told that someone was going to physically collect luggage from carousel and put it on next service.

Unfortunately that did not quite happen that way and I was left without golf clubs or a game of golf....