US Airways Dividend Miles (Pre-FlightFund Merger) - Web Check In Question

Ok, I am one of the few, I guess, that has not begun to use Web check-in. Can someone walk me through how it works. What about luggage? Do you get boarding passes? What do you get and what do you do with it? Why don’t I trust this process?

Thanks
Chicken

<font face="Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif" size="2">Originally posted by MikeM6090:
Ok, I am one of the few, I guess, that has not begun to use Web check-in. Can someone walk me through how it works. What about luggage? Do you get boarding passes? What do you get and what do you do with it? Why don’t I trust this process?

Thanks
Chicken</font>

On web site home page you need to put in your name, flight #, departure cityand whether your flight is today or tomorrow. It will take you to a screen where you will see the itn. Check you name (or another name if in the same record) and at this point you can A. Select a new seat if you wish or keep your old one. If you select a new one, a seating chart will come up showing you available seats. Pick one and hit continue. B. select continue. a screen will come showing all your flights, and these are your boarding passes. I think your only choice here is to print. Print your passes and select continue. You now will be able to print your itn. which should now reflect your new seats if you chose them.

You can not check baggage on the web. Take your boarding pass to the skycap at the airport and they will check them for you or go to ticket counter.

Your printed boarding passes will get through security.

Thanks. Will try it this week to RIC and TPA.

I tried it for the first time. Fairly painless process, until I got to ABE and the TSA man looked at my ink jet printed BP and said, "No e-tickets. You have to have a boarding pass.".

I was like, "Yo, this is a BP, do you think that is why it says Boarding Pass on this piece of paper?" Meanwhile the yahoos flying for the first time in their sorry lives on charter operator Southeast Airlines to some secondary airport near Orlando (don't ask) were sailing through with hand printed BP's that looked like my kid made them at the nearby Crayola Factory.

<font face="Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif" size="2">Originally posted by gardener:
I was like, "Yo, this is a BP, do you think that is why it says Boarding Pass on this piece of paper?" Meanwhile the yahoos flying for the first time in their sorry lives on charter operator Southeast Airlines to some secondary airport near Orlando (don't ask) were sailing through with hand printed BP's that looked like my kid made them at the nearby Crayola Factory.</font>

I can not stop laughing! I guess I can picture the scene.

If you are booked in coach, does the web check in offer to upgrade you if G is available using e-upgrades? I know on CO I believe web check in can either upgrade an elite or put them on the upgrade standby list. I have never tried this specific scenario out.

Can you choose seats for Shuttle if you use web check-in? What about if you've upgraded to First? Do they pre-assign First Class on Shuttle?

you can use web ck in for shuttle day of departure only and assign seats, but not 24 hours in advance.

How about UA codeshare (UA ticket, US metal)? Maybe you can since it is a US flight, and maybe you can't since it is a UA ticket. I did a search and couldn't find anything, but maybe I didn't search on the right words.

I figure someone here has experience...

yes, you can do that as well (most of the time in my experience). US has you listed on the flight when you put in the city and last name, and on the BP it says *US and not *UA

Is it possible to use web check-in on a US ticket, UA metal?

<font face="Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif" size="2">Originally posted by tribe01:
Is it possible to use web check-in on a US ticket, UA metal?</font>

No, you must use UA. Some have reported adding their UA MP # to the ticket and thus using UA's web check-in (You must have an MP # to access their web check-in). However, if you are a US but not UA elite, you may lose some of your benes (E+, early check-in, preferred notation on your boarding pass).

My solution: swallow the inconvenience and use UA's kiosks.

No, but you can use United's web check-in.
I always use my US number to get the E+ benefits when I make the res. You need to use your UA number and password, though, to login to the site - but I get my BPs with my US number and status listed on them.

<font face="Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif" size="2">Originally posted by tribe01:
Is it possible to use web check-in on a US ticket, UA metal?</font>

Thanks for the response, my concern is that I am flying SAN-LAX-CLT-RIC with the first segment on UA (US flight#), the rest on US and I want to be able to check-in 24 hours ahead of time to be #1 on the upgrade queue if I don't clear at the 7 day mark. If I understand,I should check-in on UAL.com, but will check me in all the way through?