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CPH-Flyer
There is no NH desk in Incheon, as ANA does not actually have any routes to the airport. There is no point in going to the Asiana desk, they will not be issuing a boarding pass for an ANA flight where you have no Asiana flights at all. Save yourself the trek.
Ethiopian departs from T1, and JAL from T3 in Chicago. I am not sure what the trek is to get around ORD, but you might want to contact the airport office before and see if this is something they can and will do. Running around an airport with a toddler is not the most fun thing, so you'd probably want to avoid unnecessary excursions.
While having a separate ticket connection in Japan is generally fine, I am not sure I would dare include a low cost carrier in the process. You are asking the check-in staff to validate that you have a valid ticket for the second flight, basically performing a non standard procedure. LCCs generally don't like to do that. Their standard operating procedures are usually very strongly ingrained in everything.
That's a good point regarding the location of the ET and JL check-in desks at ORD, I'll have to take a look into that and see if I can get an answer on the phone before hand and how easy it is to get from T1 to T3. Even if a bit of extra time is involved, I'd feel a lot happier having the NRT-ICN boarding pass in our hands departing ORD.
OK I can quite easily eliminate the LCC from the equation, there is an OZ flight departing ICN at 09:30 which is only 50 minutes earlier than the Jin Air flight, it's more expensive but is probably the safer option. It may also have the added benefit of allowing us to check a bag right through to SFO.
Thanks for the input.