Shipping luggage home?

[dawnyp]

We are heading out to Yellowstone and Jackson Hole at the end of the month. We booked the 2 legs of the return as individual tickets with 2 different airlines. Frontier from JAC to DEN and Alaska from DEN to SEA. When we started booking the trip we thought we were going to spend a weekend in Denver and then decided not to. We only have about 80 minutes on the connection and from what I understand the luggage cannot be checked through in JAC to SEA as we are not travelling on the same ticket. We are worried there is not enough time to deboard the plane, go to baggage claim, recheck our bags and get through security. We are considering shipping our luggage home. Has anybody ever done this? What was the cost and would you recommend it?

[allibally]

Have you called either airline about it?

We had different tickets when we flew Zurich to Milwaukee. We changed carriers in NYC. When we checked in we had our bags ticketed to our final destination. Granted 2 of 4 of our bags did not get on the plane and arrived two days after us. But it was possible to get them ticketed to our end destination we flew AA and Delta. FYI, we did still have to pick them up at JFK since we had to do customs.

[frlcb]

I would call, I am pretty sure they can check them through, even if it is a different carrier.

[dawnyp]

If it is a different carrier but the same ticket it can be checked through. This WR booked at 2 completely different times so they are considered different itineraries. The airline cannot check them through.

[allibally]

Both our tickets were not booked at the same time... completely different itineraries. Have you even tried to call them?

[aurora]

Definitely call first, but if you won't be able to check them through then I agree you should probably send the luggage (or just bring carry-ons) rather than try to claim and then re-check it. DIA's luggage system is ridiculously slow, especially for a "new," "state-of-the-art" airport.

[dawnyp]

Aug 20, 2012 23:35:05 GMT -5 allibally said:

Both our tickets were not booked at the same time... completely different itineraries. Have you even tried to call them?

Yes I have called and was told it isn't possible.

[allibally]

Aug 21, 2012 0:19:24 GMT -5 @dawnyp said:

Aug 20, 2012 23:35:05 GMT -5 allibally said:

Both our tickets were not booked at the same time... completely different itineraries. Have you even tried to call them?

Yes I have called and was told it isn't possible.

Okay. From my understanding some airlines have agreement and some don't. Sorry that's not an option for you. I've never looked into shipping. I would personally go the carry-on route for this.

[sillygoosegirl]

Isn't it going to cost $25/item for each leg of the journey if you check it? I don't normally mail luggage (normally just travel with a carry-on), but my experience is that you can mail quite a bit of stuff through USPS for $50-$100... They have calculators on the USPS website that you can use to estimate the cost to ship a package of whatever size/weight you'd need.

[pittpurple]

Is there no possibility of doing carry-on only? We do carry-on only for almost all our travelling and European airlines have a much smaller limit. How long is your trip?

[dawnyp]

Unfortunately we can't do carry on only. We are gone for 2 weeks and are bringing items that have to be checked.

[travelingturtle]

UPS used to do luggage shipping and it was very affordable. I don't remember how much it was and not sure if they still do it. I'm pretty sure, though, that they were pricing it similarly or even cheaper than airline checked luggage.

www.theupsstore.com/products-services/packaging-shipping/Pages/luggage.aspx