Check through bags: need to take receipt to transfer desk?

Hi all,

I have just checked in on-line for my flight home from the middle east to London, connecting with VS401 in Dubai.

My connecting flight is booked onto the same PNR, and the Virgin website popped-up the following warning during check-in:

Our records indicate that you may have a connecting flight.

If this is the case and your bags have been checked in for carriage on this flight by another airline, please take your baggage receipts to the Virgin Atlantic Transfer Desk or Bag Drop.

Failure to give this information means your baggage will not be loaded.

I often check my bags through to their destination, and I've never seen this before (and never done it on any previous flight), and my bags have always followed me without problems.

If I was in the US, I'd simply ignore this, but I've never transited through the UAE before. Is there something odd about Dubai which requires this?

I am staying in transit, and pretty sure VS don't even have a transfer desk - there's just a generic set run by the airport.

I'm not going to immigrate to the UAE just to give someone a baggage tag; surely as long as it has both flights on the tag, everything will work as as it always has done in the past?

Thanks for any advice,

Drew

[honey lamb]

I can't answer for UAE but whenever I transfer, regardless of airline or airport I have always been asked to have my baggage tags shown to the airline so that it can be logged into the system. Presumably it can be done either in the lounge or at the gate during transit

We had this on the way back from Fiji last week. The first airline can put any final destination on the bags but they need to reconcile the luggage tag with the passenger manifest otherwise it will not be loaded for security reasons. If there is any doubt then the bags will stay on the ground.
Basically, there is not complete integration between all airlines, it's usually fine but better safe than sorry!

Thank you both...I must just have been lucky with my previous flights (or the US does something different).

Cheers

Drew