A weird thing happened to me when checking in last night (the 13th, which may explain this) for the 10 PM flight to Dublin, then Shannon. It is flight #126. Earlier in the day, I couldn’t check in online, though I’d done so for the same flight at the end of July. Came back as having to do so at the airport.

Got to EWR, and went to check in at the kiosk, with one of the CO folks right by me. My check-in wouldn’t take. We tried to initiate the procedure with my passport, credit card, OnePass card, but after confirming my seat, I’d end up at the beginning page. When the CO check-in person went to a keyboard and console behind the kiosks, he wasn’t able to check me in either.

Turns out that my return flight on the 19th, via Shannon, also is under flight # 126. He called Houston, and it took 15 minutes for everything to get sorted out, because even they weren’t getting permission to check me in to my flight to Dublin because of this.

I have never, in decades of flying, had the same flight number apply to an inbound and outbound flight between the same cities.

My thanks to all the CO folks who got this resolved for me and got me on my flight.