Originally Posted by
flyer0123
On my SFO-LAX-TPE-BKK-MAA trip on a mixed Star Alliance itinerary of UA/BR/TG, UA printed all my BP's at SFO, however BR at LAX told me that I cannot use UA BP's, they need to check me in again and issue their own BP's. They could not issue me TG BP's and I had to re-checkin at BKK to get my TG BP again (even though I still had my UA issued BP for that segment was not sure whether TG will accept it after finding out about the BR rule)
To be fair, this is typical on many international carriers - they'll only accept BPs that they print themselves. Not sure why.
Originally Posted by
why fly
Air Canada computers are out of the stone ages. Unless you buy a ticket from Air Canada you cant even book your seat online. Also AC has new classes of tickets that give 25% miles.
And whatever you do NEVER ever get on a ROUGE flight. Its horrific.
Also now that AC does not let UA gold members book a seat on AC planes its time UA blocked all AC passengers from seat selection on UA planes.
AFAIK, you can now select/change seats from external bookings - at least some of them. I just had one booked through RBC points, I think it books through Carlson Wagonlit, and I could change seats - just has to go through a separate site then the typical manage my booking - there's even instructions/a link on the main manage my bookings page, but it does require entering in the PNR/last name twice.
And to be fair, AC has no such restriction about not letting golds select seats as you suggest - they just don't give out premium seats for free, and they don't give them out to their own AC elites either on most fares. Those on UA tickets can only not book a seat on AC if they have to pay for it - i.e. if on 016 stock, can't select a seat in advance on a Tango fare or pay for a premium seat. No different than what's going on with LH on low fares - there's no way to map the purchase of a seat to the ticket when its OAL. There are plenty of seats that one is able to select on AC flights, so saying you can't book them is completely inaccurate.