Checking Bags on Two Separate Delta Tickets (Interlining) – How to Make it Work Seamlessly

• Introduction: My First Atlantic Crossing on the Norwegian NCL Viva Prima Class Ship
• Emptying my Delta SkyMiles Accounts to get Value Flying to Lisbon Portugal
• The Comfort Inn South Bend SBN Airport Review via Delta Stays – How Very Disappointing
• Checking Bags on Two Separate Delta Tickets (Interlining) – How to Make it Work Seamlessly
• Rant: Are Lounges Worth the Effort Anymore in Atlanta ATL – Part One
• Shrinkflation: Famous Delta Shake Shack Burger is Less Than Old Delta Burger
• Rant: Are Centurion Lounges Worth the Effort Anymore Mexico City T1 – Part Two
• Air France A350-900 Business Class New Seats Review Mexico City to Paris MEX-CDG
• Air France A321 Euro Business Class Review With Blocked Middle Seats
• THE ONE American Express Fine Hotels Review Near Lisbon Portugal Cruise Port
• Review: Vibe Beach Club Plus Cabana Norwegian Viva – Is it Worth the Upcharge?
• Norwegian Viva Mid ship 16th Floor Balcony Cabin Number Floor Review
• Norwegian Viva Complementary and Main Dining Review – Is the Food Good Anymore?
• Norwegian Viva Specialty Dining Review – Should you pay to Enjoy “Better” Meals?
• What is the Entertainment Like on the Norwegian Viva?
• Emergency Dentist Visit in the Dominica Republic from my Norwegian Cruise Ship.
• How Much Does it Cost to Take an Uber from Galveston, Texas to Houston Airports?
• How You Get Paid Taking an Oversold Flight Bump From Delta Air Lines
• Delta Air Lines A220-300 Comfort Plus Review. How Much Better than Coach
• Final Thoughts on my 15 day Atlantic Crossing on the Norwegian Viva Prima Class Ship

I am nearly 60 years old and have been a frequent flyer since I was a tiny little baby and yet I have never done one thing when flying. How tiny, you may ask? I mean, take a look at this simply adorable little passport photo below. Have you ever in your life seen a younger or cuter one?

I know, I know, I was simply adorable. I bet you are wiping a tear from your eye as you read this and I totally get it. But on to what I have never done in all these years and that is request to interline my bags on two SkyTeam Delta booked / stock itinerary. I don’t mind telling you I was a weeeee bit nervous and had scoured the internet about what to expect and what I should say to the local Delta reps who may or may not have ever done this in their years (or weeks or months) of workings at a Delta outstation.

I was so nervous about this that, as you saw in the earlier post, I stayed at a hotel next-door to the SBN airport to make sure I made it with lots of time at “dark-30” to get this seemingly daunting task completed, that is, checking my bags on both a SkyMiles award and revenue ticket. I was sweating bullets in the cold November frosty morning awaiting what was to come.

As I approached the Delta check-in desk in SBN I mentioned that Mexico City was NOT in fact my final destination but that I would need to interline my bags to another Delta booked itinerary onward to Lisbon. This was a bit of a mistake for my somewhat rookie agent.

Let me break in here and give you some background from what I learned going through this process. What happens is this (no matter what you have seen on sites like flyer talk or Reddit and so on): The agent pulls up the bag tag schedule page on their screen and then begins adding segments. For me the correct way of doing this would have been my original legs and then the next two legs on the second reservation. My rep struggled a bit as he kept trying to simply add Mexico City to Lisbon as the second part of the trip not realizing that we had a connection in Paris.

What he had to do, after help from a friend, was NOT print two luggage tags as many have suggested but to simply add after the SBN-ATL and ATL-MEX the legs MEX-CDG and then CDG-LIS and it then spit out the luggage tag for routing my bags all the way from my home town to Lisbon.

I don’t mind telling you, since this is the first time I ever have done this, I was a bit nervous that our bags for our 15 day cruise would end up stuck in Mexico City. We had (intentionally) given ourselves a 6 hour layover so if there were any issues we would still make it to our second set of flights including our bags. We had so much time that we went to baggage claim to make sure our bags did not pop out on the belt and were in fact being held for the next flights. They did not come out thankfully.

I also have Google trackers on all my bags (and other stuff) and it was fun to see the bags make it over to Terminal 1 where we were departing from on Air France from sitting for a long time over at Terminal 2. Once in Paris they also both pinged so I knew they made it.

One strange thing was tracking the bags along the way. For the Delta App they only tracked the bags as far as Mexico City. After that I had to use the KLM / Air France App to track the bags the rest of the way. Not a big deal but an interesting tech bit along the way and why you may want to download any Skyteam partner airline apps before you go if interlining your bags from Delta to another airline.

Overall it was not hard at all once the SBN Delta rep put all the legs of my two tickets in the right way and our bags made it all the way without issue and it does build my confidence should I ever need to interline my bags again with Delta and Skyteam partners! – René