Originally Posted by ANC RED-EYE

My understanding is, no. Fortunately this has never happened to me yet (I'm sure it will with the number of times I do such things). The way it's been told to me is that if you book separate tickets (i.e. "home-grown" connections, as I like to call them), you are on your own completely if a delay on your first airline causes you to miss a flight on the 2nd. Potentially even if you have 2 separate flights on the same carrier.

However, in practice, I think the airlines actually handle this a little better.

As an aside...during the "fiasco" I wrote about on Era in Kodiak last week (long delay first for mechanical, then for weather), I heard one guy on the phone with Continental shelling out $700 to change his ticket since he would miss his connection in Anchorage. Note to self...DO NOT CALL!! I'll bet he'd have been better off handling it at the airport, as I'm sure they're relatively used to this in ANC!

And while we're asking not completely related questions...will a boardroom daypass get me anywhere in Vegas or Miami? I know members can access CO Presidents club in Vegas, but will they honor a daypass? Doesn't look like there's any access in Miami.