Sometimes you can actually check your luggage to one of your layover stops. It depends on how cooperative the person at the baggage counter feels like being (and some airlines might not allow their employee the option), but it can be done in some cases.
I work a job where I travel overseas to join a ship for several months and then get to go home for some time off. The company pays for my travel between the ship and home, except that they insist on booking my flights to and from the local office city in San Diego. That usually means I'm booked to fly to either SF or LA and then have a final hop over to San Diego before I make my own arrangements to get home. There's no point in me actually going to San Diego when SF and LA are much better hubs, so if my flight home from the ship gets booked to SAN via LAX, I just ask the baggage counter attendant if I can just check the bag to LAX. It's worked several times. One time I had to get them to cancel the last leg of my itinerary, but that was likely complicated by the fact that the first leg/flight where I initially checked my bag was a domestic flight on a different airline than my international flight into LAX.
Over the radio while the emergency batteries still have charge. After that you'd need to activate your EPIRB which has it's own internal battery power.
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Sometimes you can actually check your luggage to one of your layover stops. It depends on how cooperative the person at the baggage counter feels like being (and some airlines might not allow their employee the option), but it can be done in some cases.
I work a job where I travel overseas to join a ship for several months and then get to go home for some time off. The company pays for my travel between the ship and home, except that they insist on booking my flights to and from the local office city in San Diego. That usually means I'm booked to fly to either SF or LA and then have a final hop over to San Diego before I make my own arrangements to get home. There's no point in me actually going to San Diego when SF and LA are much better hubs, so if my flight home from the ship gets booked to SAN via LAX, I just ask the baggage counter attendant if I can just check the bag to LAX. It's worked several times. One time I had to get them to cancel the last leg of my itinerary, but that was likely complicated by the fact that the first leg/flight where I initially checked my bag was a domestic flight on a different airline than my international flight into LAX.
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