I have a couple of questions about checking luggage through to a final international destination when the connecting domestic flight is on a different PNR
I’m flying to Japan next week on QF 25 out of Sydney. For various reasons too long and boring to explain, I have a connecting QF flight CBR-SYD on a separate ticket with a different PNR. The connecting flight has been subjected to a lot of Qantas initiated changes and if I accept the last proposed change I will have over 6 hrs transit time in Sydney before QF 25. This wouldn’t be too bad if I can spend the time in the F Lounge. I will have my international boarding pass already on my phone, but it just occurred to me that I might have to collect luggage at Sydney Dom, physically transfer it landside and drop the luggage at a bag drop.
Any idea if I can drop bags for an international flight where I already did Online check In, but where physical check in is not yet open?
And what are my chances that QF CBR will check it straight through to Tokyo for me and save me a whole lot of stress and annoyance in physically lugging a full ski bag around myself.
Trying to decide whether to reject the change and get a refund and slum it to SYD on the bus, or whether to accept the change and the long transit.
