BKK airside bag check?

JackMiles

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So, here's my very silly itinerary:
  • flying SQ PER-SIN-BKK,
  • ~5hr transit
  • then EK BKK-DXB,
  • ~9hr transit
  • then EK DXB-BKK (on same ticket as above 'middle' leg)
...and then I will enter Thailand for a couple of nights in Bangers.

Of course I could just go HLO the whole way, which is my current plan, but I'm wondering if there's a way to check in bags airside at BKK before my EK flights, since I want to avoid going landside at BKK after the SQ flights to collect bags and check in to the EK flights. So, to be clear, in this imagined scenario, I would go HLO from PER to BKK then check in a bag for the BKK-DXB-BKK flights.

Checking in bags with SQ at PER and interlining to the EK flights is not an option, as I understand it, because apparently a bag cannot be checked to the same airport twice on the one routing (which does make sense) - leaving aside that the best I can find on the net is that SQ might agree to check my bags through to an EK flight.

So, yeah, in short, is there a way to check in bags for EK flights airside at BKK? I don't suppose it matters but in case it does, I have no lofty status but am flying J on SQ and J/F on EK.
 
If you need to check a bag airside you are out of luck Baggage carousels are past Immigration. So no way to pick up bag from the SQ flight airside.
 
If you need to check a bag airside you are out of luck Baggage carousels are past Immigration. So no way to pick up bag from the SQ flight airside.
I get that, but I'm saying I would carry on the bag from PER to BKK then - hopefully - check in the bag I had carried on for the EK flights. So I would not have to go out to baggage collection at BKK to collect the bag. Does that make sense?
Thanks for the reply in any case.
 
I get that, but I'm saying I would carry on the bag from PER to BKK then - hopefully - check in the bag I had carried on for the EK flights. So I would not have to go out to baggage collection at BKK to collect the bag. Does that make sense?
Thanks for the reply in any case.
Still not possible. Transfer counters at the East & West Concourses in BKK are for getting boarding passes issued, changing flights, general info - there's no facility airside to check a bag. You must clear immigration and head up to the 4th Floor to the check-in counters, landside, if you want to check a bag in at BKK.
 
Still not possible. Transfer counters at the East & West Concourses in BKK are for getting boarding passes issued, changing flights, general info - there's no facility airside to check a bag. You must clear immigration and head up to the 4th Floor to the check-in counters, landside, if you want to check a bag in at BKK.
Okay, cool, thought it was unlikely. Thanks very much.
 
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