Originally Posted by
D582
All you need to be a 'connecting pax' is the inbound boarding pass. Being on the same record isn't a requirement. (This is from direct experience at the YVR SS where the 3 hours rule still applies to Super Elites - I was able to spend over 8 hours there).
Linking the PNRs when it carries forward to CM will show this as being on one continuous journey, including to downline Altea carriers.
Bolding is mine.
This is key, however, some of us have still fallen mercy to the whims of the occasionally errant and stubborn agent.
(of course, with 50K and up, you can just say you're arriving as a fallback to the errant agent who hopefully won't deny that too... so I was saying this in relation to non-status J pax)