Originally Posted by
Cuse44
You have it backwards. When you check in with UA and your second flight is on CO, you are still on the EUA list (you are always on the EUA list when your CO Elite FF# is in the reservation). Checking in with another airline only prevents you from being on the Battlefield Upgrade List. This can be corrected by seeing a gate agent and having her manually adding you to the list.
Ok, thanks. I'll make sure to check in with the gate agent. But when I check in for the UA flight I always check the PDA upgrade list for my CO flight and I never appear on it. I'm also (at that point at least) unable to check in the for the CO flight via CO.com even though I'm always within T-24.
I'll admit I never checked in first for the CO flight before I go the UA desk at the airport. I generally don't do E-checkins, especially on foreign itineraries, as I just don't see the benefits of doing so.
And a double admission: this has never actually affected me as I always schedule above the minimum layover time to minimize the chance of a misconnection - and then CO always cheerfully moves me onto the earlier flight, when I don't need the plus-size pad.