Air Asia Baggage Transfer (or Not?)

[NaiGreg]

Air Asia considers itself to be a point-to-point airline and I booked 2 different itineraries to get from Chiang Mai to Phuket via BKK. (2 flights same day)

So now I am wondering if I will have to retrieve my luggage and then re-check-in for the second leg. Naturally I'm hoping to check bags through and get all boarding passes at CNX.

Thought I'd check here first the office is now closed for the day (I think)

-NG

[speedways]

you will not be able to book your baggage from cnx to phuket

you have to collect baggage at bkk and check in for phuket

[NaiGreg]

Ouch!

(Thank you for the reply)

Unfortunately, I will have to change my departure time to allow time for checkin and security lines.

[MeetJohnDoe]

Yep...you don't get cheap fares for nothing. This is a real PITA when one has several flight segments on AA.

[wileycoyote]

Speedways is correct

[ozfarang81]

Ouch!

(Thank you for the reply)

Unfortunately, I will have to change my departure time to allow time for checkin and security lines.

if you already knew they were a 'point to point' carrier why didn't you plan for this in the first place? Or at least ask before booking???

[toret]

My friends wife managed to have her luggage checked through one stop, I believe she was flying Bangkok - Phnom Penh - Kuala Lumpur (don't ask why) on the same day. I tried on two international flights (on following days, Macau - Bangkok - Phnom Penh), and no can do. So you can always ask when you check in, but be prepared for "No can do".

And one more thing, if you flying two international routes, you MUST pass through thai immigration before you can pick up your luggage.

[Zpete]

My friends wife managed to have her luggage checked through one stop, I believe she was flying Bangkok - Phnom Penh - Kuala Lumpur (don't ask why) on the same day. I tried on two international flights (on following days, Macau - Bangkok - Phnom Penh), and no can do. So you can always ask when you check in, but be prepared for "No can do".

And one more thing, if you flying two international routes, you MUST pass through thai immigration before you can pick up your luggage.

Bet she wasn't flying Air Asia.

[ovenman]

My friends wife managed to have her luggage checked through one stop, I believe she was flying Bangkok - Phnom Penh - Kuala Lumpur (don't ask why) on the same day. I tried on two international flights (on following days, Macau - Bangkok - Phnom Penh), and no can do. So you can always ask when you check in, but be prepared for "No can do".

And one more thing, if you flying two international routes, you MUST pass through thai immigration before you can pick up your luggage.

Bet she wasn't flying Air Asia.

I can't see how that even could work with AirAsia seeing as how they only check bags point-to-point. Even if the Bangkok check-in staff did somehow manage to get a connecting Phnom Penh-KUL tag onto the bag(s), who in PP would even be aware to do anything with the bags? One would think that the ground staff would be trained to simply place all of the inbound luggage onto the baggage claim belt.

[siam2007]

Ouch!

(Thank you for the reply)

Unfortunately, I will have to change my departure time to allow time for checkin and security lines.

which will cost you some extra bucks.....

sometimes I really wonder what people expect from lowfare-airlines.......

[Ricardo]

OK so Air Asia don't currently do luggage-transfers.

But as the Air Asia long-haul fleet & network grow, at some point they will surely want to use their short-haul network, to feed passengers into their long-haul network ?

And luggage-transfer & guaranteed-connections would be a very big help in achieving this.

[JimShortz]

Currently they don't for sure... I did CNX - BKK - HKT and back last week; go get your bags each leg i'm afraid, but booked 6 months in advance unbelievably cheap!