Flight with a transfer, in addition to taking extra time and exhausting, also requires the passenger to take clear and timely actions to re-check-in and re-check-in baggage, if the flight is carried out using two different airlines.
Instructions
Step 1
In general, actions during a transfer flight look like this. You check in for the first flight (sometimes immediately for the second one too), check in your luggage. Then go to boarding. After the plane lands, you either go to the transit area, or go through control and inspection, then go to collect your luggage. Then you go to check-in for the next flight, after which all security and pre-flight checks await you again. It is useful to consider the nuances, as some cases are different.
Step 2
Before your flight, check in advance about the airport where you are connecting. Try to find its scheme, remember your departure terminal, so as not to be mistaken with this. In huge unfamiliar airports, anything happens, even experienced travelers sometimes get confused.
Step 3
Try to buy tickets so that there is enough time to transfer. If you need to re-register your baggage, then allow at least 3 hours for the transfer. It happens that the planes are late, and if you fly with different airlines at non-refundable fares, then you are at great risk, so in this case it is useful to increase the transfer time even more. Those who bought a ticket for two segments in the same company do not have to worry: in case of a flight delay, you will be reissued a ticket for the next next one. But it is still better to check the conditions with the airline.
Step 4
Conventionally, flights with a transfer can be divided into several types, the simplest and most convenient of which is when you fly with the same company and with one ticket. You immediately check in and receive boarding passes for all flight segments, and the airline is responsible for handling your baggage. She herself will re-register it for another flight, you just need to get off the first plane, go to the transit area and wait until the next flight starts boarding.
Step 5
Things get more complicated if you have not one, but two tickets. This can be the case when you fly with two different airlines, and when you buy tickets from one company, but they are not combined. On such a flight, you have to take care of everything yourself. The most difficult thing is usually the re-registration of baggage, because it takes a long time, it is important to say about this separately.
Step 6
As soon as your first plane lands, you will need to immediately, after passing all the checks, go to the baggage claim area. There you should collect your luggage and go directly to the check-in counters for the next flight, where the luggage will have to be checked in again. It happens that the baggage cannot be found, sometimes its delivery is delayed, or it may turn out that at check-in you come across a very slow employee - it also happens. So finish your connection first, and then you can sit back and relax if you have enough time before your next flight.
Step 7
Of course, it is most convenient to fly with a transfer, having no luggage at all and limiting ourselves to hand luggage, but this is not always possible. That is why it is recommended to take more time for the transplant. It is better to sit quietly in the departure area for an extra hour, sipping coffee and watching the planes take off from the window, than rushing headlong through an unfamiliar airport building, in the end to be late for landing.
