Originally Posted by
airoli
I think you need to reframe the scope of your post a bit.
All airlines I am aware of support letting Canadian PRs without an eTA board flights to Canada. I have yet to hear a report of somebody being denied boarding.
However, many airlines (including the ones you mention above) may not have bothered to properly configure their self-serve check-in tools (web / mobile / kiosk) to handle these situations. And if, like LX, I have one flight a day to Canada, I will probably not make this a priority for my dev team either.
Yes, it's online checkin that one can't do with most of these airlines. Obviously especially if one is flying without a selected seat and in Y, checking in at the airport vastly increases the chance of being bumped or dumped in a bad seat (more so with some airlines than others).
LX has at least two flights a day which they'd require an eTA for. LX8 may fly to ORD but they share with UA to codeshare into YYZ. When I was checked in for LX8, they needed to validate my PR card for the final destination.