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Yes, I have seen this on many occasions, on flights to USA, Europe and Australia with multiple connections.
The scenario is exactly as you describe - at the airport where they cannot be checked through, you need to pick up your luggage then check it back in for the next leg of your journey. A long as you plan for it, it ends up just being a mildly ...
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Without knowing which airlines were involved, I assume that noone is able to answer your question reliably, but it might very well be that the luggage really couldn't be checked through to the final destination.
Another common scenario for this is if the last leg of a multi-leg trip is a domestic flight. In this case, customs must be cleared at the first ...
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In general, the only way that you will be guaranteed to have the airline re-accommodate you on a later flight in the event of a delay is to book the flights on the same ticket - which basically means that you need to buy all of the flights together, from the same source. There is no means to "combine" them after booking, even if they are booked on the same ...
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Yes, it is an there are many reasons why it can happen. The airlines not communicating is one of them but I think the most common reasons are policies of transit airports. This is why luggage is nearly always tagged to its destination with all flights and yet the passenger has to move it himself. In some airports there is an express way to check luggage back ...
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It has already happened to me, and I think the gate agent just made his work. Who sold you the ticket (be it a travel agency, a website, or so on) should have indicated that you would need to pick your luggage and check in again. And by doing so you (your brother) should have planned to have enough time to do so.
In general it happens in domestic - ...
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In my experience, airlines generally will are rebook you in case of connection delays if they are codeshare partners (for example, you BA and AA resell each others' flights across the Atlantic), or are in the same alliance. As always, frequent flyer status is likely to expedite this too.
I cannot say how much of this is "guaranteed" or legally required. I ...
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In the US, Southwest Airlines does not interline with anyone (except ATA on its codeshare flights), so it is impossible to check luggage through to or from a Southwest Airlines flight connecting to another carrier -- one of many reasons I won't fly on SWA.
I believe EasyJet and Ryanair have similar restrictions.
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