US Airways Dividend Miles - 1 day trips -> OLCI mess

Apologies if this is in the 'bugs' thread ... I checked and didn't see it. So I'm flying roundtrip CLT - DTW tomorrow, and was upgraded at the 7 day window for the outbound flight. The return did not upgrade, but I didn't worry much because it was 7 days out.

Completely forgot about it, and went to check in. Checked in this morning for the next day's morning flight, no problem. This afternoon I went to check in for the return flight, and was presented with checkin for the a.m. flight again. When I completed the process, there was the return boarding pass at the bottom of the page ... no opportunity to change seats/upgrade ... nothing.

Is this a known problem? If so, is there a work-around? Obvious work-around is to call before the 24-hour window, but let's pretend I'm not smart enough to have done that. My question is "is there a way to make OLCI work in these cases?"

My view from outside the system is that it can't handle the flights very well in the same day/window, and behaves as if they're part of a continuous itinerary (in some respects).

Thanks for your thoughts (or a gentle nudge toward the thread where this was discussed and solved years ago :) )

That would be a bit odd since many people routinely do day trips up and down the East coast. I've never had an issue, but I haven't had your same scenario.

I have had this happen too... if you check in at 24 hours before the return flight they should all print though.

I have had this happen too... if you check in at 24 hours before the return flight they should all print though.

I've done several 6-segment same-day MRs, and I've been able to print all 6 BPs during OLCI at exactly T-24.

I've done several 6-segment same-day MRs, and I've been able to print all 6 BPs during OLCI at exactly T-24.

This has actually lead to some funny responses from immigration. Just this weekend the agent wondered how I came from the US and already had a ticket to go back with the US Airways desk outside of customs.

Never had any problems with all my same day boarding passes printing all at once.

Thanks, all. It looks like my problem was checking in for the first flight while the second was more than 24 hours out. It's rare that I have so short a trip (outside of an MR here and there) and also rare not to catch an upgrade in the sweeps, so I haven't had this occur before.

Something has changed in the past few months, maybe farther back. I do one day round trips several times or more a year. I used to be able to check-in for all flights at T-24. Though a round trip the system ended up seeing me as flying PHX-PHX, including my same day turn to BDA during the hop/skip/jump promo in 2010.

Today I'm flying PHX-CLT-PVD-CLT-PHX. At T-24 I had OP's situation: could only check-in for outbound segments but could also no longer change seats for the return flights. The BP's were for PHX-CLT-PVD only. Came back at T-24 for the return portion and system gave me all four BP's but still no seat adjustment. Fortunately I avoided bulkhead and got into row 2 or 3 prior to check-in but I can see where this might be a real nuisance if I forget to move out of row 1 ahead of time.