I'm trying to set up an itinerary arriving in Rome on El Al at 8:45 AM, and departing on a domestic Alitalia flight to Venice at 8:20 PM (so the connection time in FCO is 11 hours, 35 minutes), like so:
I know for a fact that it's a perfectly legitimate itinerary, because I can successfully book both flights on the same reservation; it's just that it works out cheaper to book the Rome-Venice segment on a separate ticket. So...
1) Will El Al make any problems at check-in when the passenger asks to have the bags checked all the way through to Venice, if FCO-VCE is a separate ticket?
2) Either way (same ticket or separate ticket)... is an 11.5-hour stop considered "short" enough that they'll transfer the bags from LY to AZ without pax intervention? I.e. Can the passenger simply leave the airport and go tour Rome, without even touching their bags? Or will they be required to collect the bags, find somewhere to store them, and then check them in again for the Venice flight? (Needless to say, that would be a HUGE pain...)
Thanks in advance!
