Domestic/Long Haul
We have booked flights to Orlando with BA, this includes a flight with them from Manchester to Gatwick and then change planes to Orlando, would I pick our luggage up and then re check in, they are two different flight numbers, I am thinking that we will but have never done it this way before but at a saving of 225 each on Virgin and in the school holidays it was the way to go.
If it's all on the same ticket your bags will be transferred by BA to the Orlando flight so you don't need to be bothered about them.
You will check in at Manchester and not see your bags again until you get to Orlando.
Coming home you will collect your bags at Gatwick to come through customs and than they will be put on the Manchester flight.
Is that correct? When I connect through Heathrow from a BA international flight to a BA domestic flight on the same itinerary and have a boarding pass for the second flight my bags are checked right through and I only collect them at my final destination.Originally Posted by Laurel Oak
It may of course be different at Gatwick but at Heathrow you clear immigration and have to pass through customs where you are under an obligation to declare anything you need to pay duty on but you don't actually physically collect your bags until you have flown the domestic connection.
Thank you all for your replys, am glad I can check bags at Manchester, this is a first for us, but the way Virgin prices are going it may become the norm!
Since you won’t have access to your cases as you pass through Gatwick then any liquids / gels you may have purchased in the airport in Florida will have to be taken through security at Gatwick as hand luggage and will be subject to the 100ml volume and will be confiscated it they exceed this.
So no bottles of spirits or large perfumes / aftershaves etc.
I have however heard some people suggesting that you should ask for anything you buy to go into sealed security bags and as long as they are not opened then they will be allowed through your second security check, but I’m not sure, some one may be able to tells us more info. But I have seen people get things taken off them.
Although that would seem logical, it doesn't happen!
With flights back to Manchester via Heathrow and Gatwick you do not see your bags until you pick them up at the domestic terminal at Manchester. The obvious implications of this are you never take your bags through customs. IIRC at Gatwick you don't even pass through customs but follow the transfer directions with those flying on to Europe.
If you bought the liquids within the secure area of your departing airport or on the aircraft and it is sealed in line with the regulations with the receipt attached then you can take it through to your connecting flight as hand luggage. That said, you do hear lots of stories of even those being confiscated so I never risk it.
Only applies to sales in authorised airports - all those in the US that sell Duty Free fall within that category.
Sadly they are not stories and i can confirm this does happen. I flew from LAX to LHR via Phoenix on a code share with BA and AA, the two airlines operate from different terminals at Phoenix which requires you to leave one terminal and catch a shuttle to another. The whole security process started again resulting in several passengers losing the duty free shopping they purchased at LAX.
Dave
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