When you search for flights, you may see travel hacks marked as No-checked-bag itineraries. These special itineraries don’t allow checked baggage to make it possible for you to make your connections. To avoid issues on your trip, we strongly recommend you don’t add baggage through the carrier on your own.
Note that if you have our disruption services, they won’t apply if you add checked baggage to a no-checked-bag itinerary.
You can’t add baggage to the following travel hack itineraries:
1. Self-transfer itineraries with short layovers
We don’t offer checked baggage on itineraries that have a self-transfer with a short layover (usually anything less than 2 hours). Itineraries with self-transfers have layovers which aren’t connected by the carriers, and it’s likely you won’t have enough time to transfer with baggage. This is because you’d need to collect your baggage, check it in again, and go through security — and sometimes even passport control — in transit.
2. “Hidden city” itineraries
If you book a hidden city itinerary, you can only bring a personal item with you. The airline could require you to gate-check any larger pieces of baggage — including cabin baggage and musical, sports, or baby equipment — and your baggage would get sent to the official final destination on your itinerary instead of the layover stop, aka the “hidden city”, where you get off.