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Originally Posted by Butch Cassidy Slept Here
There was a time (before "9-11") when, if you attempted to check-in (at the ticket counter, now kiosk), and there was MORE than 4 hours to departure, the agent would refuse to check you in/accept baggage on the basis that you had arrived too early. Stories, like the OP's, suggest that this "4-hour rule" should be amended to 5, or more, hours. JustMe, or Judge: Is it now possible to check-in baggage, etc. MORE than four hours prior to departure (for domestic flights) at large airports?
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I've been gone for just about 2 years but where I worked last (Honolulu) you could check in anytime on the actual day of flight but we didn't like it much due to space restrictions to keep the luggage. So, for example, if your flight was at 1020pm and you showed up when the doors opened in the morning, we would take the luggage but we weren't happy about it. And the bag guys downstairs really weren't happy about it. Many, many times the chief would come up and talk to me about where was he supposed to put this luggage and I'd have to tell him nicely to find room somewhere. There was no restriction on time of check-in for day of flights.
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Originally Posted by Butch Cassidy Slept Here
Also, with regard to the ground time for on-line and inter-line "domestic to domestic" connecting flights: Will baggage NOT be transferred if the ground/connecting time is beyond a certain number of hours?
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There was always an unwritten (I think as I never saw it anywhere) that you could not check luggage on a flight that was not the very next one out. For example, you were starting in HNL with a connection in LAX to go to LGA (online or interline) the flight from LAX to LGA would have to be the next one out after your arrival. Meaning, if you arrived LAX at 7am and the next flight was 9am, you couldn't have your luggage checked for a flight at 3pm.