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Old 22 Sep 19, 04:39 PM  
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Hi, we have booked a virgin ticket, with our internal flights booked with BA on the same ticket. It’s supposed to be Flybe the return internal flight from LHR, but last minute have booked us a BA flight from LGW to save us the transfer between airports.

How does luggage work? Is it VA baggage policy?

Totally confusing myself. 🙈
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Old 22 Sep 19, 05:05 PM  
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Chances are Last Minute have booked seperate tickets.
As Virgin and BA don't interline it would be the airline with the worst baggage allowance, so Virgins. BA baggage allowance is more than Virgins as you can have a 23kg cabin bag.
I would also check to see if you have to collect your bags at LGW as well and recheck them in for the BA flight. If they are booked as separate flights you may not be protected if your inbound flight is delayed and you miss your BA flight.

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Hi, we have booked a virgin ticket, with our internal flights booked with BA on the same ticket. It’s supposed to be Flybe the return internal flight from LHR, but last minute have booked us a BA flight from LGW to save us the transfer between airports.

How does luggage work? Is it VA baggage policy?

Totally confusing myself. 🙈
The rule for checked baggage on flights to / from the US is that the allowance is decided by the airline under whose flight number the first flight on the itinerary is sold (assuming one ticket for all flights).

If your first flight is sold with a VS flight number, VS decides the allowance (usually their own). If it is sold with a BA flight number, BA decides the checked baggage allowance for all flights on the ticket. It can choose to apply its own allowance or Virgin’s, the allowance should be confirmed on the ticket / confirmation.

It’s not clear from your post if the last flight on BA is on the same ticket or booked separately. If separate, the allowance will be independent and will be BA’s for that flight.

Hand luggage allowance is always that of the operating carrier for each flight, so with multiple carriers on a journey, you need to work to the one with the smallest allowance (Virgin in this case).

Originally Posted by bighal View Post
Chances are Last Minute have booked seperate tickets.
As Virgin and BA don't interline it would be the airline with the worst baggage allowance, so Virgins. BA baggage allowance is more than Virgins as you can have a 23kg cabin bag.
I would also check to see if you have to collect your bags at LGW as well and recheck them in for the BA flight. If they are booked as separate flights you may not be protected if your inbound flight is delayed and you miss your BA flight.
It is not correct that VS and BA don’t interline, they absolutely do, in particular for UK domestic connections to/from VS flights. It’s quite possible to have BA domestic flights and VS international on the same ticket.

As mentioned above, checked and cabin baggage rules for mixed carrier itineraries are completely independent

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Thank you! I can see all 4 flights on the virgin website, so will go with their baggage allowance. We didn’t want to have to change airports, which is why we now have a separate flight with BA.

It’s crazy how different the luggage allowances are. We are so used to BA, but now realise we might as well turf the cabin cases and use rucksacks instead. Probably easier to stow in the overhead lockers too.

Thanks for your advice, I just started to over think things, so it’s really helped!
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