Connecting flight and luggage

Tom Mann Centuria

Hi, really sorry for stupid question.

Never flown before where I've had to get a connecting flight. I am travelling to Newark Airport in the USA then onward to Tennessee.

So I check my bags in Dublin, do I then pick my bag from the carousel in Newark, then bring them to next planes check in as if I'm starting again? Also, I have a seat booked with the aer lingus part of flight, but not the united part, is this normal?

I have 3 hours stop over so hoping that's loads of time to sort myself out.

Quackster

Tom Mann Centuria wrote: »

Hi, really sorry for stupid question.

Never flown before where I've had to get a connecting flight. I am travelling to Newark Airport in the USA then onward to Tennessee.

So I check my bags in Dublin, do I then pick my bag from the carousel in Newark, then bring them to next planes check in as if I'm starting again? Also, I have a seat booked with the aer lingus part of flight, but not the united part, is this normal?

I have 3 hours stop over so hoping that's loads of time to sort myself out.

If the two flights are on the one ticket, there's no issue, your luggage will be automatically checked through to your destination. Otherwise, you'll have to ask when checking in at Dublin if they can check your bags though to your destination.

Tom Mann Centuria

Quackster wrote: »

If the two flights are on the one ticket, there's no issue, your luggage will be automatically checked through to your destination. Otherwise, you'll have to ask when checking in at Dublin if they can check your bags though to your destination.

Thanks very much for that.

So the two flights on the one ticket that means I don't see my bags after Dublin until Tennessee, and on the stopover I can forget about the luggage side of things? I still have to check in for 2nd flight (with United) I presume.

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Tom Mann Centuria wrote: »

Thanks very much for that.

So the two flights on the one ticket that means I don't see my bags after Dublin until Tennessee, and on the stopover I can forget about the luggage side of things? I still have to check in for 2nd flight (with United) I presume.

If you booked it together you'll be fine. In Ireland your bags will be tagged by Aer Lingus through to Tennesee and you should be issued both boarding passes by Aer Lingus. You will clear security, immigration and customs in Ireland so when you arrive in Newark you just get yourself to your next gate. You can ignore the bags completely and pick them up in Tennesee. Just double check at Dublin when checking in the bags are checked through.

Atlantic Dawn

Double check the tag they put on your luggage, it should say BNA if it's Nashville International Airport.

Tom Mann Centuria

Thanks a lot everyone, great advice and feel a lot happier about it all, feel like a right country mouse with all this. Going to Knoxville, so I'll check the tag for TYS.

Quackster

Tom Mann Centuria wrote: »

Thanks very much for that.

So the two flights on the one ticket that means I don't see my bags after Dublin until Tennessee, and on the stopover I can forget about the luggage side of things? I still have to check in for 2nd flight (with United) I presume.

Yeah, you'll be checked in for both flights in Dublin and you'll get your seat details for the second flight at that stage.