Rechecking bags at MIA without other passenger

[masaccio]

Depending upon how busy MIA immigration is on our way home from Belize, I am considering using my Global Entry to recheck both our bags and just leave OH to make her way to the lounge. Am I going to come a cropper dropping the bags? I’m assuming of course that we will have our mobile boarding passes for the BA flight home.

For clarity – we have separate tickets (and airlines) for BZE-MIA and MIA-LHR. And I am anticipating from reading FT that AA won’t interline the bags through to LHR even for elites.

[NorthernLass]

Can’t see any issues with this – we often have 1 person checking 2 bags in if we’re travelling in different cabins, for example, with the other/s only checking 1 or none. I assume on AA you have the same free allowance as you would on BA for long haul routes.

[ChrisC]

Correct AA won’t interline on separate tickets.

Without your OH being present at the desk both bags would have to be checked under your name – assuming that’s within your allowance otherwise you’d be charged for the extra bag.

[masaccio]

We are flying CW and I am Gold. I have more allowance than I ever know what to do with!

[Matt]

That will be fine then.

[NorthernLass]

On our GCM-LHR flight the other week I was in CW and OH and son in PE. Both our cases were slightly over 23kg so I checked them both in under my name as per CW allowance. As has happened before the desk agent pulled a face and commented that the bags were overweight but couldn’t do anything else as I stood my ground about my CW allowance! They do seem to have an issue with baggage, even when you’re within the rules.

We were in a loop of “ma’am, these are overweight”, “no they’re not, I can have 2 x 32kg” for a while. Then the agent said, “well it’s ok I’m not going to charge you”, slapped on the “heavy bag” stickers and we were away!

*This was BA of course, I’ve only heard of AA being awkward on US domestic flights where pax have had to argue their status to get their free bag quotas.

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