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I’m going from Bangkok to Heathrow via Zurich with Swiss next month.
I arrive in Zurich at 7pm and fly out from Zurich to Heathrow the next day at 7am.
I am ticketed through from Bangkok to Heathrow. I wondered if I am able to change the Zurich to Heathrow leg to a couple of days later?
I think you asked this on another thread. It will depend entirely on the fare / miles rules applicable to your ticket; there is no accurate generic answer.
I did but realised I should have asked here.
I’m on a business basic fare.
If not, as the layover is overnight more than 12 hours can we get out checked baggage back (i.e. ask Bangkok to just label the luggage to Zurich)?
Because you have an overnight layover, I can’t imagine why Bangkok wouldn’t just check the bag as far as Zurich. Simply tell the agent there’s something in the bag that you need for your overnight stay and that should be the end of it.
Never tried this with LX, but did it with CX routing LHR-HKG-PER. It was an overnight connection in HK but less than 24hrs. At LHR they wanted to check the bags through but we asked them not to and that was all fine. I think they felt they were doing us the favour by offering in the first place.
Nobody books a flight to Perth because it’s cheaper than going to Hong Kong! But Bangkok to Zurich may be more expensive than Bangkok to Heathrow, so possibly LX may wish to discourage people dropping the last segment – BA certainly does if you try to short-check to Heathrow from North America. I did try it once with LX, also when the ZRH stopover was nearly 24 hours, and they didn’t have a problem with short-checking, although they said they could through check if I wanted.
Nobody books a flight to Perth because it’s cheaper than going to Hong Kong! But Bangkok to Zurich may be more expensive than Bangkok to Heathrow, so possibly LX may wish to discourage people dropping the last segment – BA certainly does if you try to short-check to Heathrow from North America. I did try it once with LX, also when the ZRH stopover was nearly 24 hours, and they didn’t have a problem with short-checking, although they said they could through check if I wanted.
Fair point, but the vast majority of NA – Europe routings on BA won’t necessitate an overnight stopover. There are any number of reasons why you might have things in your suitcase you need for an overnight stop that you can’t fit or don’t want in your cabin baggage – none of which need be any concern of the airline’s!
Indeed a quick look at FT shows an example of a 22hr layover at ZRH. Bags were initially checked through to Dublin, but the agent was happy to retag to just ZRH.
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