Do I have to claim and re-check in my baggage in international transit when traveling with the same airline?

6/4/2014 4:25:50 PM

Rishi, you should claim your baggage in Chicago after customs & immigration. Then take your baggage to local airline and re-check-in. That’s what i did when i traveled to Austin from Hyderabad via Doha. My customs & immigration happened at Washington DC, where i collected my baggage and re-checked-in to American airlines.

6/4/2014 2:02:47 PM

Usually you can check in at the starting airport and get your baggage directly at the last airport as long as you have all the flights on the same reservation.

In the cases above, it also matters to know whether your airline (in this case Qatar) has a code share or baggage routing policy with the other airline.

Unfortunately the US and Canada operate differently and here you must pass through immigration and then re-check in your luggage.

6/4/2014 12:43:48 PM

When you check in at DEL, you should ask that the bag be checked all the way through to MEM, even though yes, you will still need to claim it and re-check it at ORD.

Passengers on all international flights to the U.S. are processed upon arrival at their first airport in the U.S. (including transit passengers; the U.S. does not have sterile transit). In your case, after you land at Chicago, you will disembark the aircraft and proceed directly to immigration and customs screening. You will claim your bag before going through the latter.

If the bag is tagged for MEM, you fortunately do not need to go all the way out to the front counter to check them in again. There will be a station for bag re-check past the customs screening area; you would simply have it scanned there.

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