Best way to book a flight with long stopover

peachyprice

Any ideas on the best/cheapest way to book a flight with a long stop over?

We want to stop in NYC on our way back from MCO next summer without having to take our checked luggage with us.

I've looked at multi city flights, but as you book 2 separate flights on the way back presumably luggage would be checked from MCO-NYC then have to be re-checked from NYC-LON. Am I correct?

All we want to do check our luggage through to LON, leave the airport, visit friends, then go back for the connecting flight to LON the same evening or even the next morning, the best I've found so far is 8hrs, arriving NYC in the morning leaving around 9pm, but it's through TA on Kayak/Skyscanner, once you go to the airlines own website that option disappears.

Any thoughts appreciated.

callum9999

peachyprice wrote: »

Any ideas on the best/cheapest way to book a flight with a long stop over?

We want to stop in NYC on our way back from MCO next summer without having to take our checked luggage with us.

I've looked at multi city flights, but as you book 2 separate flights on the way back presumably luggage would be checked from MCO-NYC then have to be re-checked from NYC-LON. Am I correct?

All we want to do check our luggage through to LON, leave the airport, visit friends, then go back for the connecting flight to LON the same evening or even the next morning, the best I've found so far is 8hrs, arriving NYC in the morning leaving around 9pm, but it's through TA on Kayak/Skyscanner, once you go to the airlines own website that option disappears.

Any thoughts appreciated.

What tickets you're on doesn't really matter, it's the baggage policy at the airport. I don't know what policy the New York airports have but I'd imagine if you arrive in the morning and leave in the evening they'd store the bag, if you leave the next day they won't. Whether it's a multi-city or "normal" connection doesn't really matter.

The airports have luggage storage though, so worst case scenario you don't have to take it with you.

As to buying the ticket, if you say what the flights are I can look.

harz99

As Callum says check with the airport, and also the airline (assuming you are using same one for both legs).


It's a few years since I was in that situation, and at LAX they wouldn't keep baggage if the flights were more than 12 hours apart.


We left our bags on the belt, and claimed them later in the day before our evening check in, not that I'm recommending you do the same you understand.

callum9999

harz99 wrote: »

As Callum says check with the airport, and also the airline (assuming you are using same one for both legs).


It's a few years since I was in that situation, and at LAX they wouldn't keep baggage if the flights were more than 12 hours apart.


We left our bags on the belt, and claimed them later in the day before our evening check in, not that I'm recommending you do the same you understand.

I wouldn't bother with the airport, just the (original) airline.

I did that once in Montreal by mistake. When I checked in the bag they insisted I wouldn't have to pick it up for the overnight connection so I left it, and American Airlines just took it from the belt and kept it in an office for me.

richardw

I'd go for the morning BA flight from JFK and check into an airport hotel the day before.