Re-checking luggage at connecting airports

3/20/2014 6:38:03 PM

Since other questions have been closed and pointed to this one for answers regarding baggage transfer between airlines, I just wanted to point out that, while the above answer is correct specifically regarding UA and Lufthansa, it’s not true for all airlines. Any airlines that are part of the same alliance will almost certainly check your bags all the way through to your final destination, but some airlines have no ‘interline’ agreements with other airlines and, thus, will not transfer bags to or from other airlines. A notable example in the U.S. is Southwest Airlines. For the general case, you’d need to check with at least one of the specific airlines involved in your itinerary. For an upcoming trip from Nashville to Asia, I’m flying Southwest from Nashville to San Francisco and then Korean Air from San Francisco to Seoul. I checked with Southwest and they confirmed that they can only check my bags to SFO and that I must recheck them with KAL to ICN from there.

2/7/2014 3:11:38 PM

You will be able to check your luggage all the way from Casablanca to Newark. Lufthansa and United are closely related, and luggage transfers between them are not a problem.

If all three flights are on the same ticket then this will happen automatically – but it’s worth checking the tags as they put it on the luggage to make sure. It should have a list of the airports you’re going through – “FRA”, “LHR” and “EWR” on it.

If the flights are on different tickets then be sure to have a printout of the flight details with you, and they will be able to check it all the way through – but you will have to ask for it! At a minimum you’ll need the confirmation number, but it’s worth having the full details (ticket number, confirmation number, flight numbers, etc)

You will be required to collect your luggage in Newark regardless of your final destination as it’s your first entry point into the US, however if you are continuing you can still get the luggage tagged to your final destination in Casablanca, which will make re-checking it easier.

Lufthansa check-in staff in Casablanca will be fluent in English, German, as well as the local languages so you should not expect any language issues.

Neither Morocco nor the UK are part of the Schengen region, so your transfer in Frankfurt is basically an international to international transfer, and there is no need to go through immigration. 54 minutes is cutting it a little fine, especially as FRA has a habit of using buses to get passengers to/from flights – but presuming you’re on time (and especially if both flights are in the same terminal which they probably will be) then you should be fine.

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