Originally Posted by
sailingfun
The above is the correct answer however not all agents know how to do it. Last year I had a agent struggle with it for 15 minutes and give up telling me I would need to claim and recheck my bag in ATL. In Dec I had a agent do it correctly in less than a minute.
Thats the catch. It does take some extra knowledge and effort on their part so you have to hope you didn’t draw the short straw in gate agent roulette.