Originally Posted by channa
Honestly, I don't bother with 24-hour checkin anymore. I do it when I can, because the chances of there being another Platinum on the same fare class as me is very small. Sure it's possible, but there are 16 different coach fare buckets on CO, and with the number of Plats on a flight and the expected distribution of those among fare classes, it's not likely.
Be really nice if some data was available on this ... I know on my flights there have sometimes been 2 or more Plat regulars who were vying to be first to check in because we knew we were all on U tickets.