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<p>[QUOTE="PWMTrav, post: 24340, member: 693"]</p><p><a href="http://saverocity.com/arewethereyet/american-airlines-new-restrictions-checked-luggage/"><img src="http://saverocity.com/arewethereyet/wp-content/uploads/sites/18/2014/09/AAL-Stock-Down.png" data-url="http://saverocity.com/arewethereyet/wp-content/uploads/sites/18/2014/09/AAL-Stock-Down.png" class="bbImage " style="" alt="" title="" /></a></p><p>Effective October 1, 2014, American Airlines will no longer allow you to check bags through to your final destination unless your tickets are on AA, US or a Oneworld partner. This means, for instance, that if you have booked two separate reservations on two separate carriers, you cannot check in with American and have your luggage tagged through to the airport where that second carrier is taking you.</p><p></p><p>Most reservations are on one reservation and one ticket, so no matter the mix of carriers, this rule change will not impact that. There will also be no impact if your second itinerary is with another Oneworld carrier, as might be the case if you needed to position for a BA or US flight. Still, this is an important change to those in this hobby in a number of instances. The most significant, which prompted me to make this post, would be in the instance where you might have an award booking on a non-OneWorld carrier, who may still be an American Airlines codeshare partner, but had to purchase a revenue positioning flight on American For example:</p><p></p><ul> <li data-xf-list-type="ul">You’re itching to go to Hawaii, and SEA-OGG is wide open on Alaska metal – but there isn’t any space to get you from NYC-SEA for that flight. If you were to book a separate, paid flight on American, AA will not check that bag through to Hawaii for you. You will need to pick up and re-check it in Seattle</li> </ul><p>This will apply to situations like the one above for <a href="http://www.aa.com/i18n/aboutUs/codesharePartners/main.jsp">AA’s non-alliance partners</a>. One outstanding question is whether this impacts interlining luggage onto an OpenSkies flight – currently listed as a codeshare partner on AA’s site, but also a Oneworld “affiliate” member due to being a BA subsidiary. I’ve put that out to the AA social media team and will update when I have a response.</p><p></p><p>For what it’s worth, this aligns American’s rules with the interline luggage policy that US Airways has been enforcing for a number of months. It’s another example of the combined airline aligning standards and policies to the lower common denominator between the two constituent airlines. This change really hurts when you pay to position for an award on a non-alliance partner.</p><p></p><p>HT: JonNYC / <a href="http://www.flyertalk.com/forum/american-airlines-aadvantage-consolidated/1614863-change-through-checking-bags-separate-tickets.html">Flyertalk</a></p><p></p><p><a href="http://saverocity.com/arewethereyet/american-airlines-new-restrictions-checked-luggage/">Continue reading...</a></p><p>[/QUOTE]</p>
[QUOTE="PWMTrav, post: 24340, member: 693"] [URL='http://saverocity.com/arewethereyet/american-airlines-new-restrictions-checked-luggage/'][IMG]http://saverocity.com/arewethereyet/wp-content/uploads/sites/18/2014/09/AAL-Stock-Down.png[/IMG][/URL] Effective October 1, 2014, American Airlines will no longer allow you to check bags through to your final destination unless your tickets are on AA, US or a Oneworld partner. This means, for instance, that if you have booked two separate reservations on two separate carriers, you cannot check in with American and have your luggage tagged through to the airport where that second carrier is taking you. Most reservations are on one reservation and one ticket, so no matter the mix of carriers, this rule change will not impact that. There will also be no impact if your second itinerary is with another Oneworld carrier, as might be the case if you needed to position for a BA or US flight. Still, this is an important change to those in this hobby in a number of instances. The most significant, which prompted me to make this post, would be in the instance where you might have an award booking on a non-OneWorld carrier, who may still be an American Airlines codeshare partner, but had to purchase a revenue positioning flight on American For example: [LIST] [*]You’re itching to go to Hawaii, and SEA-OGG is wide open on Alaska metal – but there isn’t any space to get you from NYC-SEA for that flight. If you were to book a separate, paid flight on American, AA will not check that bag through to Hawaii for you. You will need to pick up and re-check it in Seattle [/LIST] This will apply to situations like the one above for [URL='http://www.aa.com/i18n/aboutUs/codesharePartners/main.jsp']AA’s non-alliance partners[/URL]. One outstanding question is whether this impacts interlining luggage onto an OpenSkies flight – currently listed as a codeshare partner on AA’s site, but also a Oneworld “affiliate” member due to being a BA subsidiary. I’ve put that out to the AA social media team and will update when I have a response. For what it’s worth, this aligns American’s rules with the interline luggage policy that US Airways has been enforcing for a number of months. It’s another example of the combined airline aligning standards and policies to the lower common denominator between the two constituent airlines. This change really hurts when you pay to position for an award on a non-alliance partner. HT: JonNYC / [URL='http://www.flyertalk.com/forum/american-airlines-aadvantage-consolidated/1614863-change-through-checking-bags-separate-tickets.html']Flyertalk[/URL] [url="http://saverocity.com/arewethereyet/american-airlines-new-restrictions-checked-luggage/"]Continue reading...[/url] [/QUOTE]
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