I recently flew the return itinerary LHR-MIA-IAH-MCI, purchased as CO flights on co.com. And, yes it's irritating to be stuck in the economy class line for 40 minutes, as a OP Gold. When i did check in I was assured by the check in agent that he couldn't produce the boarding passes for my flights from MIA. I questioned this as I've flown VS as CO codeshares with connecting itineraries several times before and always received all of my boarding passes at LHR. But, no he couldn't produce them.

So I had to dash around MIA to re-check in for the connecting flights. I emailed CO to see if this is a new practice, but no response for a couple of weeks. This will definitely affect my ticketing/routing decisions. At least I got upgraded to PE to MIA though (not worth the money if you have to pay for it though!)

Anybody know if VS is now unable to produce connecting CO boarding passes?