I'm thinking this may be a dumb question with an obvious answer, but I've always only booked my air tickets on the carrier's actual website before, so I'm not sure.
If I use a website such as Expedia, Travelocity or Orbitz, plan a multi-city trip and am offered tickets using various airlines for the different legs, does this count as a single ticket for baggage checking purposes - meaning that the airlines will check my luggage through to each leg's final destination without me having to retrieve and recheck?
For example, to get to Eureka/Arcata in California, the ticket has me flying from HNL to SMF on Hawaiian Air, then connecting on United to get to ACV. A few days later when I want to go to SEA, the flights for that leg use United and Alaska Air.
I know I can book United for the entire trip, but it's quite expensive to go exclusively on United vs. using different carriers for different legs.
Thanks for any help you can provide.
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It might, it might not. It depends on the ticket, the links between the airlines and probably several other things.
Given that you are getting much lower prices I would suspect that the tickets are separate
The only thing that is certain is that if you book the whole trip in one go on an airline website then it must be a single ticket
>It might, it might not. It depends on the ticket, the links between the airlines and probably several other things.<
Oh, ok - maybe I understand a little better. So using Orbitz, Expedia, etc. to purchase a trip that uses different airlines for various legs does not necessarily mean it is ticketed as a single ticket.
I thought perhaps using a travel website (purchasing through one site vs. several different airline sites) to cobble together the flights it could be counted as a single ticket.
The flights will be on one "PNR" - passenger name record - so if the airlines have interline baggage agreements, and most do, then your bags will be transferred. In the case of Hawaiian Airlines, it ought to be okay, but HA has recently mucked around with its interline bag policy, so I'd phone them (not Expedia) before committing.