Incorrect advice from Qantas check-in agent leads to missed connection.

[Mwenenzi]

You don't get to choose your route or airline with TripADeal.

So do not use TripADeal

 

[Quickstatus]

For ADL to YVR Canada I would not have chosen to route via USA. Are other options (routes - airline), but may have cost more.

So do not use TripADeal

Hindsight is 20/20 and it is a bit moot after the fact

 

[froggerADL]

So do not use TripADeal

Thank you so much for your helpful advice. What would we do without such?

 

[BrockF]

What did the cabin crew say before disembarkation? They usually give instructions.

Last few flights vis DFW that were international to international transfer there has been repeated announcements about not needing to collect baggage. Even had some flight attendants come up and remind me that luggage gets checked through at DFW when transiting Int-int.

 

[froggerADL]

Last few flights vis DFW that international to international there has been repeated announcements about not needing to collect baggage. Even had some flight attendants come up and remind me that luggage gets checked through at DFW when transiting Int-int.

Thank you for this. I will ask them if they heard any announcements (when they get back).

 

[Quickstatus]

They cleared immigration at DFW

Last few flights vis DFW that international to international there has been repeated announcements about not needing to collect baggage

What other airports do the traveller have to enter the country while their bags remain effectively outside the country?

Edit: In the context of Int-Int transfer

 

[MEL_Traveller]

What other airports do the traveller have to enter the country while their bags remain effectively outside the country?

Europe possibly? You ‘enter’ the schengen zone, but your bags are still outside the country for customs purposes?

 

[Quickstatus]

Europe possibly?

Where you have to clear immigration?
Do you mean enter the Schengen zone from a non Schemgen country, then transiting to a non Schengen country?

 

[justinbrett]

What other airports do the traveller have to enter the country while their bags remain effectively outside the country?

In the UK you clear immigration at your first airport (eg Heathrow) but you don't see your bags until your final destination, which could be a regional airport (eg Inverness). You go through "customs" at your final destination.

So yes, for all intents and purposes, the UK matches your criteria.

 

[Quickstatus]

you don't see your bags until your final destination, which could be a regional airport (eg Inverness).

Thx, but what about to another non UK country eg SIN-LHR-CDG. Last i heard Scotland still in the UK

 

[MEL_Traveller]

Where you have to clear immigration?
Do you mean enter the Schengen zone from a non Schemgen country, then transiting to a non Schengen country?

I’m pretty sure i entered europe in germany, even though my destination was switzerland. So that’s int-int, but clear immigration, but bags stay airside.

 

[milehighclub]

I will ask them if they heard any announcements (when they get back).

I regularly hear them make the announcement at the baggage claim about not needing to collect if INT - INT. Just like LAX always reminds everyone that they must collect regardless, and like into Australia.

 

[Lynda2475]

What other airports do the traveller have to enter the country while their bags remain effectively outside the country?

LHR, I used e-gates to enter but didn't see my bags until after I had arrived at EDI.

 

[Quickstatus]

EDI

Understand but last I heard Scotland has not demerged from the UK. Charles' chair still sits on top of that Stone

 

[Quickstatus]

my destination was switzerland.

Isn't Switzerland part of Schengen zone? So Germany to Switzerland should be borderless?

 

[justinbrett]

Thx, but what about to another non UK country eg SIN-LHR-CDG. Last i heard Scotland still in the UK

Not what you originally asked.

I think the list of countries requiring you to clear immigration for I-I transfers is very short. Connecting bags is not the unusual part here, it's the clearing immigration for an international connection.

Before Brexit I remember having to clear some kind of transfer checkpoint at LHR connecting to MAD, that required my passport, but it wasn't immigration as such.

 

[Quickstatus]

Not what you originally asked.

Correct and apologies. i wasn't specifically clear. I assumed writing "effectively bags remain outside the country" and the context of this thread being an Int-Int transfer was enough.

@MEL_Traveller and @Lynda2475 - apologies too if you have intepreted my comment in a similar way.


I have added an edit.

 

[CaptJCool]

In my recent arrival into LHR flying onto Milan, I didn’t collect the baggage in London. Only in Milan. And then it was a rush through anyway. No questions asked by Immigration and nothing to declare so out in just a few minutes

All the other internal Schengen flights via Madrid (no bag collection) again basically “ignored”

Flights from/to Europe to Egypt was a straightforward out and in. Of course some more rigmarole in Egypt - bags x raged on arrival as they were in Morocco

Oh and on the overnight in Madrid we didn’t collect checked bags but the rigamorale to re-enter the secure zone and APM to Terminal 4S was something to behold