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Apr 23, 2014 | 4:37 pm

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qukslvr619

Join Date: May 2006

Location: STL

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Originally Posted by NiceLanding

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Originally Posted by qukslvr619

Went to check into my multisegment trip DC-DFW-LAX-SAN. Not possible because no seats LAXSAN. Apparently the limitation I was told is you have to have a seat available on every segment to check in online otherwise you have to do it at the airport. Even Shares will let you check in but then tell you "see agent" for whatever flight you don't have a seat.

So in theory if I happen to be last to check in on first segment and it's oversold flight, I could be IDBd because of my flight 7hours later just so happens to not have a seat to assign.

First time in a while flying AA...thought it would be a relief but guess the grass isn't always greener.

Sounds like a good plan. Then you could move to a nonstop and probably get to SAN earlier, while collecting some compensation.

Yes there are pluses, but even with nonstop it still forces the same LAXSAN flt. Guess I should have snagged the "stink-shield" seat on the CRJS when it showed open the other day. Just never believed the advice to always select a seat to avoid getting bumped but I guess that applies in this case.

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