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Old Jul 22, 2012 | 4:30 am
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trf0412
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Originally Posted by moa999
Tough issue.
Could you not have used online check-in forLAN.
No. I tried online check-in for this flight on all 3 airline's website (LA, AA, BA) and it said it couldn't be done online.

Originally Posted by moa999
Did you specifically ask/ did attendant say at MAN or LHR whether you had been checked in for the ongoing flight?
I would find it weird that luggage would be tagged thru without you being checked in
At check-in they simply said "you'll have to collect your boarding pass at JFK, but your bags are checked through to your final destination". The fact the bags were tagged to the final destination, not to mention the fact I have flown hundreds of times previously and never encountered a problem anything like this, made me believe I was checked-in in for the JFK-LIM flight, but for some reason they were unable to print the boarding pass.

Originally Posted by moa999
FYI the published -- AA-LA MCT for JFK I/I is 1hr15
Yes, I know. So, with a legal connection time of 1:15, there was nothing else I could assume other than that I was checked in, but needed to collect boarding pass, as it would have been blatantly obvious that I wouldn't make the connection if I wasn't checked-in for that flight before arriving at JFK.
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