VS to BA baggage transfer

Hi been a while since my last post but still lurk. Anyway I have a flight booked from jfk to Lhr with VS and on a separate booking a Lhr to Ncl with BA. I know BA won't interline bags but will I be able to do so from jfk as it will be VS starting the chain if you get my meaning. (the Ncl flight is of course the same day as the jfk flight arrival) Thanks for any help

Michael

Can't give you a definitive answer as it could depend on the agent you see on the day! - and that appears to be the experience of others on there - sometimes yes and sometimes no.

If you are on the same ticket then they will interline your bags but when on separate ones some airlines are refusing to do it. Heck BA won't interline between separate BA bookings.

I hope you have left enough time between your arrival and departure to be able to clear Immigration/ customs and get you and your bags from T3 to T5 before the BA bag drop deadline!

[mitchja]

It's unlikely in all honesty. You might get lucky though at check-in though. There's no harm in asking.

Thanks for the linformation, it's what I thought would be the case ( no pun intended). I will ask at check in.

tontybear thanks for your input, we have 5 hours between arrival and our onward to Newcastle, we are flying club Europe with BA as we need the extra baggage allowance as we are doing a 11 night cruise, so we will be able to make use of the lounge at Heathrow Once again thanks

Michael

As tonty says, you're at the mercy of the check-in agent you get on the day. Some will be more helpful / come to work in a good mood that day & know the buttons to press on the computer... others "conveniently" won't.

Going back some 20yrs we used to do MAN-LHR-ORD-DEN returns (all on reward tickets, same booking ref all the way, all sitting in J). MAN-LHR was BA, LHR-ORD AA, ORD-DEN AA. The sh*t we got about interlining bags on the homeward route was amazing. Some agents could "just sort it" and you'd next see your bags on the domestic arrivals belt in MAN, others made a big-deal of it & re-checking was needed. (NB: These agents "who sorted it" avoided having to clear UK customs in LHR... dunno how they did that, but we asked no questions!)

(NB: These agents "who sorted it" avoided having to clear UK customs in LHR... dunno how they did that, but we asked no questions!)

Yup, in the distant past we used to be able to check bags in at Downtown Disney VS to LGW then BA upto EDI

Most would do it if asked and you used to pick your bags off the “customs” belt in Edinburgh. (That was the belt with the *ahem red phone) Probably stopped around 10 years when the interline agreement Virgin had with BA finished and it just became a flat no !

Stopped asking them and haven’t really tried since then but I expect it to be the same now.

Strangely enough, if doing an MCO to JFK with Delta then onwards to LHR with Virgin, the Delta agents at MCO are usually the ones asking if you’d like your bag checked through to Heathrow with no issues whatsoever even when booked separately

David

Yeah, I can remember a couple of years ago having our bags checked through from MCO - MIA (AA) MIA - LHR (LHR) VS upper reward LHR - NCL (BA) all on separate tickets. They all turned up on the baggage belt at NCL almost together. Of course now there is no flight between LHR and NCL we have to do the national express between LGW -LHR so picking up bags ourselves. We will just have to hope fora helpful check in agent at JFK

Michael