Originally Posted by sjpmurph01

Had something inadvertently happen today that I didn't think was possible...

Flying PHL-BDL today, and returning BDL-PHL tomorrow. Landed at BDL around 5pm, and knowing that I'd be in a rush back to the airport tomorrow I figured I'd try get my BP from a kiosk for tomorrow's flight. I was 99% sure that this wouldn't work, and it didn't.

There were a few agents with no other pax to help, so I asked one of them how far out from a flight the kiosk can be used. She said that it had to be on the day of travel for the kiosk to work (I've heard other reports on FT that it's actually a set # of hours), but that she could print it out from behind the desk as long as it was within 24 hours. So I gave her my ID, and a few moments later I have my BP for tomorrow.

It wasn't until I looked at a clock in my rental car (about 5:40pm) that it hit me that my flight tomorrow isn't until 5:55pm. Based on the amount of time it took to get to Thrifty (grrr... subject for a whole other thread) I must have gotten my BP at about 5:15 - roughly 24:40 before flight time.

I double checked online later, and the system did in fact have me checked in.

So what I wonder here is:
- Do agents have the ability to intentionally override the 24 hour window?
- Is there maybe no warning flag programmed into their system, which would let an agent unintentionally do this? (The agent didn't give any indication she realized it was before 24 hours either.)