Timeline for How do I find out whether I am allowed to / have to disembark from a flight that transits at an intermediary airport?
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| Mar 12, 2012 at 9:24 | history | notice removed | Ankur Banerjee | ||
| Mar 12, 2012 at 9:24 | history | bounty ended | Ankur Banerjee | ||
| Mar 12, 2012 at 9:24 | vote | accept | Ankur Banerjee | ||
| Mar 8, 2012 at 12:20 | answer | added | lambshaanxy | timeline score: 6 | |
| Mar 8, 2012 at 11:09 | comment | added | Ray | @AnkurBanerjee I don't know of a way, but perhaps those at FlyerTalk might have more of an idea. | |
| Mar 8, 2012 at 10:52 | comment | added | Ankur Banerjee | @Ray: This is exactly what I'm interested in finding out. Is there anything at all in fare rules, boarding passes, or websites that log flight plans etc to indicate which case it is. | |
| Mar 8, 2012 at 10:17 | comment | added | Ray | Having one boarding pass is no indication that you can stay on-board. I've had stopovers with AirNZ and with Emirates where my ticket and boarding pass indicate a direct flight (e.g. LHR->AKL and DXB->AKL) but we have a stopover (LAX and SYD respectively). It's the same physical plane, and you have the same seat the whole way, but you're forced to disembark for the 1-2hr stopover while they clean the plane. In the US you even need to clear immigration! | |
| Mar 8, 2012 at 9:53 | history | notice added | Ankur Banerjee | Canonical answer required | |
| Mar 8, 2012 at 9:53 | history | bounty started | Ankur Banerjee | ||
| Mar 7, 2012 at 17:01 | comment | added | Laura | Oh, interesting. I've never had a stopover of that length before; they're usually several hours (4-6, where you clearly change planes) or 30 minutes (like the one from Kochi to Delhi via Bangalore). I'm really curious about this now, I'll do some more investigating. :) | |
| Mar 7, 2012 at 16:39 | comment | added | Ankur Banerjee | @Laura Just to add more information to my question. The stopover in BOM is 2 hours long. Not quite sure whether that means I have to deplane or not. | |
| Mar 7, 2012 at 15:56 | comment | added | Laura | Just wanted to report back that I haven't been able to find any site that aggregates this information. And I haven't tested enough airline websites to be 100% sure that it works the same for all of them. Will definitely keep an eye out though! | |
| Mar 5, 2012 at 23:09 | comment | added | Prashanth | Agree with Laura and Karlson. Another way to find out is through boarding pass - if you get two of them means you need to change the flight! | |
| Mar 5, 2012 at 20:37 | history | tweeted | twitter.com/#!/StackTravel/status/176768536855846912 | ||
| Mar 5, 2012 at 16:24 | comment | added | Karlson | Interesting question since the only way to find that out exactly would be to find out gates of arrival and departure. I would agree with @Laura that you will have to leave the plane anyway since noone will let you stay there with no crew on board and after 9+ hour flight the crew will have to change especially in Airline's Hub airport. | |
| Mar 5, 2012 at 15:54 | comment | added | Laura | I will do more research and if what I described above seems to be true, I'll make that comment into an answer. But for now, it's just mildly helpful but somewhat inconclusive anecdotal evidence. ;) | |
| Mar 5, 2012 at 15:54 | comment | added | Laura | I believe if you MUST disembark or change planes, the airline's website normally says on your itinerary "change planes". I've had that happen on US flights (Continental, US Airways) within the US, as well as other airlines abroad (flying Delhi to Paris via Dubai on Emirates, for example, my itinerary said "Change planes" in Dubai.) If you don't have to change planes, it won't say anything. I flew Kochi to Delhi via Bangalore; the plane stopped to let people off and on, but passengers continuing to Delhi weren't allowed to leave the plane. So my itinerary just showed a stop, not a plane change. | |
| Mar 5, 2012 at 13:03 | comment | added | Ankur Banerjee | 9W 119 LHR-BOM and 9W 76 BOM-HKG. I'm rather interested to know a general method though, or perhaps something like SeatGuru for air transit stops that mentions this. | |
| Mar 5, 2012 at 12:47 | history | edited | hippietrail |
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| Mar 5, 2012 at 11:22 | comment | added | Mark Mayo | Perhaps if you gave the flight number, we could aid in researching it for you? | |
| Mar 5, 2012 at 10:52 | history | asked | Ankur Banerjee | CC BY-SA 3.0 |