Originally Posted by
Often1
You may have been on a stopover, not a connection. Terms such as "overnight" and "layover" don't really matter [B]Fastair[B] hit the nail on the head here. OPs son was on a ticket ANC-LHR with connections at ORD and WAS.
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Personalized comment edited by Moderator]. I frequently have overnight connections on revenue tickets before the international segment. They are definitely NOT stopovers.
And UA doesn't check the passport before you fly to that connection city. So my point stands -- had the kid's passport info been stored in the system, and he used OLCI, all would have been just fine.
Edit to add: AND NOT BEEN CHECKING BAGS. (I thought that point was implicit.)