Originally Posted by Erasmus

I am sufficiently curious that I'm going to conduct an experiment this afternoon. We have multiple AS elites/now Pualani Platinums on a neighbor-island HA flight today. I originally purchased as an AS codeshare, and as others have posted, was unable to to get an HA number on the record through either AS or HA reservations or checkin systems. Upon checkin HA was asking for $30/bag each. So... I cancelled one of the tickets and bought a ticket on HA metal.

So, we now have pax on AS codeshare and HA metal with the exact same HA/AS status, and bags to check all around. Will report back, but I expect all the bags will end up checked on my record--will also be curious if I actually get five free (3 for Pualani Platinum + 2 for using the HA Mastercard) or just the three the web checkin seems to allow. So far, the HA ticket was able to get comp extra comfort seats and on the upgrade list for F, the AS ticket has regular coach seats and is being charged for anything else.