Originally Posted by
pdx1025
I have a slightly different question along the lines of this topic. My award itinerary has me traveling first leg Alaska and then the second and third legs on British Airways.
I was wondering if it is possible to do an online check-in with Alaska for the entire route or does one need to check-in separately online with BA to pick seats (of course BA doesn't let you pick seats until 24 hours out....)? Has anyone successfully checked in all the way through Alaska onto British Airways? Or do you need to do all this at the airport only?
I would at least try with the BA code to get seat assignments at T-24h, if you're not in F. You wouldn't want to wait and get terrible seats.
My only AS-to-BA experience was in F on an award ticket, so we had advance seat assignment for free. However, the boarding passes AS printed for us at SEA were not acceptable by BA for some reason - the BA agents at SFO had to print us new ones.
(Also, there was some issue with our reservation - it turns out that it was good we had a 3+ hour layover, because it took them most of an hour to solve our issue. They brought our BP's to the F lounge.)