Birmingham - Dubai - Bangkok. Luggage between flights!

[Mattybee1]

Hi everyone. Fantastic site you have here guys. 

 

I have a question concerning luggage between flights. 

 

I've never done 2 flights each way before. Can someone please tell me what the score is with the baggage collection after the first flight. Do i need to go pick up my bag from the carousel in Dubai or do they transfer it to the next plane for me. I will have a 2 hour 30 mintue layover at Dubai till i get on the plane for Bangkok Suvarnabhumi. 

 

Cheers Matt

[Gone-east]

Your baggage will be transferred for you.

[Mattybee1]

Thanks alot for the very quick reply Gone East

[eanto]

Thanks alot for the very quick reply Gone East

Be prepared for your luggage not or arrive at Bangkok when you do. Happened to me last Nov and Emerites delivered my suitcase to my condo the following evening. I'd recommend a small carry on bag with a few essentials and a change of clothes.

[semi-retired member]

When you check-in in Birmingham, they will show you the baggage-label(s) with both flights on, and give you baggage-stickers on your boarding-card which also show both flights, so you need only worry about your carry-on bag(s) in Dubai.

 

Not a problem, or nobody would ever buy a ticket, with connecting-flights !

 

Have a good journey !

[Mattybee1]

Thanks for the reply Semi retired Member. Something i have been thinking about, just incase the i lost my bag. Would not be good

[COLD SODA]

Don't worry about it , it would be through checked to Bangkok .... I think you have 3 hours connecting time ( depending on the flight booking ) you got no worries at all .... Enjoy your holiday .

[hammerman]

Be prepared for your luggage not or arrive at Bangkok when you do. Happened to me last Nov and Emerites delivered my suitcase to my condo the following evening. I'd recommend a small carry on bag with a few essentials and a change of clothes.

Ditto above. with Emirates Business class aswell.

[Mattybee1]

The layover is 2 hours 30 minutes, so that should be plenty of time for it to be sorted out. Think this is the normal length of time for connecting times from Dubai to Bangkok. Thanks for your replay by the way

[earicome]

Have done that flight bham/dubai/bkk many times and bags booked through each time. Even with the short stopover time in Dubai they seem to get the bags transferred, only lost them once on the Dubai BKK leg because the the baggage loading conveyor broke down and they decided to continue anyway unloaded.

 

Why they did not say while on the flight I don't know but it became a  nightmare at the Emirates desk BKK cos no bags at carousel.  Eventually got to the front of the Emirates desk (this was the previous BKK airport Don Muang).  I was booked onto another flight with Bangkok Airways to go to Samui which I then could not make.

 

Emirates put me up in the attached hotel (Amari Airport) until the next morning.  They also put 5000 airmiles on my Emirates Skywards card as a sweetener and arranged and paid for a new flight with Bangkok Airways to Samui.  It was lucky I had not booked my bag through to the connecting Bangkok Airways flight.  They also later sent me a cheque, when back in blighty, for something like £50

 

If you haven't already, get your self registered with Skywards the frequent flyer scheme Emirates runs.  It gets you access to some of the lounges at Dubai, more important on the way back, and sometimes you might get upgraded cos when they need your seat you will be higher in the queue, being a Skywards member, to be upgraded.  Its worth doing just to get the airmiles because, believe me, you will be back many times.

 

The shorter connection times at Dubai are better cos it stops you spending big bucks at the bars in Dubai airport.

[Mattybee1]

Loads of advice there earicome. Cheers for that.

 

Sounds like Emirates look after their customers really well if something goes wrong with lost or delayed luggage.

[Harvey707]

Loads of advice there earicome. Cheers for that.

 

Sounds like Emirates look after their customers really well if something goes wrong with lost or delayed luggage.

 

I wouldn't get too concerned over that. Chances are very slim but not impossible. Adding European destinations pre Thailand to all the Don Maung and Suvanabhumbi I would have landed over 200 times with never a missed bag. It is of course sods law that it will happen next week !

[stef74]

Emirates~ luv em.

[earicome]

Loads of advice there earicome. Cheers for that.

 

Sounds like Emirates look after their customers really well if something goes wrong with lost or delayed luggage.

just to add, it was not Emirates that caused the problem i was the Dubai baggage handlers/equipment, but they were excellent in sorting them out.  Only happened once in over 25 trips so believe me you will be back

[taylor1975]

I think there are a few apps now than can help with keeping track of your suitcase. Not sure how they work - anyone tried, any good?

[Mattybee1]

Thanks a lot guys for your help in this matter. I dont think i'm guna worry about it as much as i was. You guys know best of all. Thanks again

[Crocket]

You probably have but if not go to manage your fight on Emirates site and book you seats.

[riccy]

first long flight ?  drink a lot of water during flight.. you dehydrate seriously in a plane longtime..

don't take seats too close to toilets..  and i always take 'aisle' seat but that's me.. 

emirates, great food and movies..  etihad  good too..   have fun on your trip..

[Mattybee1]

Not my first long flight. The last long flight i was on was from UK to New York 5 years ago. Was a direct flight, so i wasn't too concerned about the problems that could happen with luggage

[taylor1975]

Just a heads up for dubai airport. Your connecting flight can be in a different terminal, which you need to get to by a train.

 

Easy to screw up when you think your gate is a 2 minute walk away.

[Mattybee1]

Being as it's 2 hour 30 minute wait til next flight, that should be enough time no matter how far away the other terminal is surely. I'll have to keep an eye on the departure boards at all times lol

[JKam]

I'm going via Dubai first time in November from Birmingham. My transfer is 1hr 50 minutes. Really hoping that my luggage makes it. Would be a bitch if it went walk about.

 

I am only slightly aprehensive about the transfer. It's my first trip for years and I really don't want to miss my connecting flight.

 

The tickets say departure gate and arrivsl are in the same terminal (terminal 3) so hoping I don't get lost...

[ATFC Pete]

I've use Emirates from Gatwick 4 times now, never had a problem, good food and the ICE system is the best, they'll tell you where you can find your connection gate number just before you land at Dubai, have a good trip.

 

 

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[semi-retired member]

I recall a TV-programe (about Heathrow ?) some years ago which showed Emirates operations-people loading hold-luggage into specific containers, each one for a specific (and popular) onward-connection, so that they only had to move the baggage-container from the inbound-plane to the outbound-one, rather than breaking-down the full load and treating each bag as an individual.

 

I suspect that there would definitely be a lot of passengers, connecting in Dubai, on flights between the UK and Thailand  ...  so that would be an efficient & sensible way to do things, with reduced-risk of bags failing to make the connection.

 

My wife flew Emirates BKK-DXB-LHR-DXB-BKK this summer, and my son (and a cousin) LHR-DXB-BKK-DXB-LGW. their bags come through just fine on a 2-hour connection. But the 'boss' had wanted more time for Duty-Free shopping !

[earicome]

Being as it's 2 hour 30 minute wait til next flight, that should be enough time no matter how far away the other terminal is surely. I'll have to keep an eye on the departure boards at all times lol

 

If your connecting flight is Emirates as well, I'm guessing the big bird A380, they would not have booked it if it was not possible.  If for any reason your flight is delayed they will have staff waiting for you at our arrival gate in Dubai to fast track you to the departure gate.  This all means you can save your money for the thai pussy and not waste it in overpriced Dubai airport bars.