I've been doing a search for travel in Dec. Travelocity is offering some better rates, but it would involve traveling on more than one airline for each leg. What are your experiences with this? (I understand that current situations change everything, but otherwise...?)
Thanks!

Does the flight involve airlines of the same alliance ie Star- including United and Air Canada or Oneworld ( American , British Airways etc)?

You are probably flying on "code share" airlines-it works fine, but please make sure at the ticket counter that your luggage will be checked through to each airline!!!

The only problem I can imagine is getting from one plane to the next. If your connection is on a diferent airline you may have a long walk or inter terminal bus ride.

Northwest/Continental
USAirways/Northwest
American Airlines/Northwest
are some of the combos.
Thanks for the advice about making sure luggage is forwarded. I'm not sure I want to go this route, but before I gave up on it, I wanted to see if I was just not experienced enough in air travel. I didn't know if this was more routine than I knew.

You should have any quams about using multiple airlines. As a matter of fact, the only way to get to some destinations is to use multiple carriers.

If your flights are "codeshared" then your luggage will be checked all the way through; same if your airline combo is an "interline" agreement. Your travel agent should be able to tell you if that is the case. If you have booked different airlines on separate tickets, then be sure to allow plenty of connect time along the way to claim baggage, then recheck it with the next airline. On separate tickets (not codeshare or interline) if one airline causes you to be late for your connection with a different airline, you're SOL, unless the second airline lets you standby for a later flight.

We recently did this (Sep 1) changing from USAirways in Denver to United to fly into 4 Corners Regional. The travel agent I booked through wasn't sure if I had to claim baggage from USAir and recheck on United, but we asked the gate agent at USAir when we checked in, and she simply checked it all the way through for us. No problem.

Sometimes, even when an airline doesn't code share or is not a partner, they do what they call "interline". They've set up agreements with other airlines to be able to check luggage all the way thru. Many airlines are this way. Some airliens, though, have no agreements to interline--Southwest does not, I believe--so you will always have to reclaim your luggage and recheck with the next airline. I did this last summer and had no problems. It was a pain having to take my luggage to another floor and re-check, but I made it.