Baggage Provisions Based on U.S. and Canadian Law

If your flight ticket states that your point of departure, point of arrival, or final destination is in the U.S. (including U.S. territories) or Canada, it is decided whose baggage provisions (free baggage allowance and charges) are applied based on U.S. and Canadian Law. The baggage provisions of that airline will then apply to your flight ticket's entire itinerary.

Itineraries Containing International Flights

Step 1

The first airline that publishes its baggage provisions through ATPCO (Airline Tariff Publishing Company), based on your ticket itinerary.

Step 2

If the airline selected in Step 1 applies the Most Significant Carrier (MSC) policy
The Most Significant Carrier (MSC) in the outbound that is defined as the leg that ends with the stopover location furthest away from the point of origin.
(For codeshare flights, the marketing carrier will be the MSC.)
If the airline selected in Step 1 does not apply the Most Significant Carrier (MSC) policy
The airline selected in Step 1.
(For codeshare flights, it will be the marketing carrier.)

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ANA does not apply the Most Significant Carrier policy.

MOST SIGNIFICAN CARRIER (MSC)

For travel between two or more IATA areas, the carrier performing carriage on the first sector that crosses from one area to another.
For travel between IATA Tariff sub-areas, the carrier performing carriage on the first sector that crosses from one sub-area to another.
For travel within an IATA Tariff sub-area, the carrier performing carriage on the first international sector.

IATA area /IATA Tariff sub-area

IATA defines the world into 3 areas (IATA area 1/2/3), and defines the IATA area into small areas. (IATA Tariff sub-area)

IATA area /IATA Tariff sub-area
Area	IATA Area sub-areas
IATA Area 1 North America/South America/Hawaii etc.	North America (USA, Canada and Mexico) Caribbean Islands Central America South America (Brazil, Chile, Peru etc.)
IATA Area 2 Europe/Middle East etc.	Europe Russia (West of the Urals) Africa Middle East
IATA Area 3 Japan/South Korea/Thailand/Singapore/Philippines/India/Guam etc.	Russia (East of the Urals) Japan and South Korea South East Asia (China, Singapore, Thai, Vietnam, Guam etc.) South Asia (India etc.) South East Pacific (Australia, New Zealand etc.)