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Travel Forum / Destinations / Asia / February 2006Connecting flight with tickets from two different agencies, possible?
Hi all, I am getting my self confused here so hopefully some of you frequent travellers can answer it for me. I will be travelling to Japan and China in March (From USA). I got my ticket from US to Japan from an agency here in the US. To save money, I bought my ticket from Japan to China from an agency in Japan (my wife's parents lives in Japan, so we had the ticket sent it there and forward it to us). My schedule is this: Arrive in Japan March 23, on same day fly to China. 6 days later return to Japan and stay for 5 days, and then back to the US. Now, my confusion is this, since I got my tickets from 2 different agencies, and the airlines are also different, where will I get my boarding pass to China? I don't need to go through custom first right? I should be able to just go through the connecting gates? confused.. >_< > Hi all, > [quoted text clipped - 11 lines] > right? I should be able to just go through the connecting gates? > confused.. >_< Do you have checked luggage? If so try and get it checked right through to your final destination. With some airline combinations it is possible (you will have to show both tickets at check in). If they won't do that I'm afraid you will have to collect your luggage and then go to a check in counter. With any luck there may be one airside. If not it's through customs and back out within a short space of time. Do you need a visa for that? Gerrit Wow thanks for the fast response. Yeah I have checked luggage. I guess the worst case is for us to go through custom and back in again. we have 3 hour lay off so should be okay. and the good thing is I don't need a visa to enter Japan. I will show both ticket when i check in though and hopefully i can get my luggage checked all the way through. Now, do you think it's possible that at checkin my luggage is checked through to final destination but I still need to go to an airside counter in Narita to get my boarding pass to china? > Wow thanks for the fast response. > Yeah I have checked luggage. I guess the worst case is for us to go [quoted text clipped - 5 lines] > I still need to go to an airside counter in Narita to get my boarding > pass to china? I can't imagine that you would have to go through customs. All major airports have a 'transit terminal' where you make changes onto other flights without clearing local customs. You can get new boarding passes in the transit terminal, and even collect and recheck baggage if necessary. However, I have seldom had to collect and recheck bags while going to first-world countries. The only time I can remember is when flying into Congo via South Africa, and I had an overnight layover so I had to collect my bags as SAA would not store them in Joberg overnight. The other case is when entering the US in NYC, as you have to clear security again and recheck your bags. I think you'll find that the airlines will check your bags all the way through, and most likely will give you boarding passes. At the worst, you'd have to get a new boarding pass in Narita, but you can do that right at the gate. What are the two airlines? --riverman > Hi all, > [quoted text clipped - 11 lines] > right? I should be able to just go through the connecting gates? > confused.. >_< <cross-posting this to rec.travel.air - there are some very knowledgable folks on that group that will probably be able to add some good information> The issue is that you have two different itineraries that you may or may not be able to join together. The two airlines may or may not have interline agreements (most do, but I wouldn't make any assumptions), that will determine if you have to collect your luggage in Japan (which airport, BTW?) or if it can be checked through to your final destination. I'd call ahead to the airline and find out if they can check your luggage through to your final destination on the different carrier. If they can't, and you have to collect your bags in Japan, you might seriously consider changing your outbound flight to an eariler one. Three hours to clear customs, collect your bags, check them in on a different airline (possibly in a different terminal), clear back through immigration, and make your flight is cutting it kind of close. If your flight to Japan is late for any reason (and it happen disturbingly often), you almost certainly won't make it. If you can check your bags through, then the only hurdle I think you'll have is when you first check in for your US-Japan flight. I'd budget some extra time to allow for any minor hiccups. This isn't terribly out of the ordinary, but some ticket counter agents will have trouble with it, and it could take an extra 15~30 minutes to get a supervisor, etc., to help them. > > Hi all, > > [quoted text clipped - 30 lines] > If your flight to Japan is late for any reason (and it happen > disturbingly often), you almost certainly won't make it. I've done pretty much what the OP is talking about several times. Quite often there was no agreement between the airlines. In some cases they've had to create a hand-written luggage tag to transfer my bags because the airline that was checking me in couldn't even see the other airline in the system (Merpati in Indonesia or TAAG in Angola are 2 examples). But I showed them my various tickets and they checked the bags through. No problem. I 100% agree that you should make sure you've allowed plenty of extra time between flights as this process might be less than "efficient". But it works. > If you can check your bags through, then the only hurdle I think you'll > have is when you first check in for your US-Japan flight. I'd budget > some extra time to allow for any minor hiccups. This isn't terribly out > of the ordinary, but some ticket counter agents will have trouble with > it, and it could take an extra 15~30 minutes to get a supervisor, etc., > to help them. Thank you all for the suggestions. I have contacted a travel agent whom I bought my US<->Japan ticket from, and she says she will contact Northwest and Airchina for me to inquire about the matter. Hopefully I won't need to collect my luggage and exit/re-enter custom in Japan. I'll update when i heard from the travel agent. thanks! Ihsiu > > > Hi all, > > > [quoted text clipped - 51 lines] > > it, and it could take an extra 15~30 minutes to get a supervisor, etc., > > to help them. |
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