Question about Airline check-in process

[Disbabe]

We're flying with American Airlines / British Airways from Manchester to Heathrow, then Heathrow to Chicago and then Chicago down to Jacksonville. We've never done an internal flight before. My question:
When we check in at Manchester is it all the way through to Jacksonville. Do we pick up our luggage at Heathrow as we've got to change terminals, therefore meaning that we have to make our way from Terminal 5 to 3. I presume we have to go through security yet again?
Thanks for any help.

 

[Elise79]

Assuming you are on one ticket for all 3 legs you will be checked in all the way through to your final destination.

At Heathrow you will transfer and your bags should be transferred automatically to your transatlantic flights (checked they are tagged all the way through). You will have to collect to clear customs before dropping off again before getting on your internal US flight to MCO.

 

[disneyholic family]

We're flying with American Airlines / British Airways from Manchester to Heathrow, then Heathrow to Chicago and then Chicago down to Jacksonville. We've never done an internal flight before. My question:
When we check in at Manchester is it all the way through to Jacksonville. Do we pick up our luggage at Heathrow as we've got to change terminals, therefore meaning that we have to make our way from Terminal 5 to 3. I presume we have to go through security yet again?
Thanks for any help.

as the previous poster said, if you are on one ticket for all 3 legs of your flight, you will check in your luggage once in manchester.
however, you will have to pick the luggage up in chicago, go through customs, then give the luggage back to the airline at the connecting desk (just outside of customs) and continue to your gate for your flight to jacksonville....and yes, you'll have to go through security again, for your flight to jacksonville..

by the way, why are you flying to jacksonville instead of orlando?

 

[wayneg]

by the way, why are you flying to jacksonville instead of orlando?

It can be a far cheaper airport compared to MCO or TPA, when I started this thread the saving was around £200, no way could you fly into MCO in the summer for £550. http://www.disboards.com/showthread.php?t=3265258&highlight=flights
Its an airport I will be looking at next August, also Fort Lauderdale & West Palm Beach (amongst others) MCO is getting too expensive.

 

[disneyholic family]

It can be a far cheaper airport compared to MCO or TPA, when I started this thread the saving was around £200, no way could you fly into MCO in the summer for £550. http://www.disboards.com/showthread.php?t=3265258&highlight=flights
Its an airport I will be looking at next August, also Fort Lauderdale & West Palm Beach (amongst others) MCO is getting too expensive.

when DD was considering a transatlantic, i checked into one way airfares for her.
curiously, it was cheaper to fly one way from san juan, then from ft lauderdale or orlando....not at all what i was expecting!!

how far a drive is it from jacksonville..
i know i wouldn't be able to drive from ft lauderdale....i was exhausted on our way to our cruise and back - so i know i'd never be able to drive all that way after flying for so many hours...
maybe i'd be able to handle tampa, but even that i'm not sure..

 

[wayneg]

when DD was considering a transatlantic, i checked into one way airfares for her.
curiously, it was cheaper to fly one way from san juan, then from ft lauderdale or orlando....not at all what i was expecting!!

how far a drive is it from jacksonville..
i know i wouldn't be able to drive from ft lauderdale....i was exhausted on our way to our cruise and back - so i know i'd never be able to drive all that way after flying for so many hours...
maybe i'd be able to handle tampa, but even that i'm not sure..

Tampa is so easy, from WDW MCO takes around 30 mins, TPA is 1 hour. so just an extra 30 mins. Flying into TPA again next month, a lot quieter than MCO.
JAX is about 2hr 30 mins.

If we fly into an airport late and I don't feel as though I want to go straight to the destination I book a night in a hotel. Like last year, flew into MIA arrived about 8pm so booked hotel airport for about £80 then up early next morning and on our way to Key West. All depends on arrival time, if I can get to destination before midnight I will, if not I get a hotel.

 

[jackieleanne]

We've flown to Tampa before from Manchester via Philly. Arrived late but we decided to book a hotel that night and do Busch the next day before heading to Orlando.

 

[Disbabe]

Thanks everyone. I knew about the US internal flights as we have done indirect many times now, we have just never done a UK internal flight before so wondered how that impacted on luggage, but you've answered my question - thanks.
As Wayne stated - the cost difference to fly to Jacksonville as opposed to MCO was over £200 each more and there's 6 of us going. Not considered it before, but as we land at 6pm - we'll be at our hotel at approx. 8.30 - 9pm, so not too bad and a half the journey is along the coast. Only 5 more days to go! Woo Hoo!!