Originally Posted by
clubman
Mrs. Clubman was due to travel last week booked on a fully flexible ticket.
She had to change her plans in the last minute, and although already checked in for her flight she did a No Show.
Strangely enough the return flight remained in her MMB, as if she had taken the flight out.
I was interested to see what would happen when the day of the return flight came, and so didn't cancel her ticket.
So, I just log onto her account, and there was her return flight inviting her to check in now, and it allowed her to do so.
Has anyone ever come across anything like this?
Yes. I recently had a full J LHR-DME-LHR ticket, which I no-showed on the outward, as I used the return portion of an AY ticket back to SVO instead.
The BA booking remained in MMB as a live DME-LHR booking, with my seat 1D still showing.
I was intending to move this whole booking to use on a future trip, but left it as it was for now.
Instead I bought a new DME-LHR-DME ticket, and was able to pre-assign 1F (as 1D was already taken by, err, me).
However this
can cause confusion at check-in. I OLCIed and PYOBPed using the new booking with the 1F seat. The DME procedure for dealing with PYOBPs is not to scan them or anything, but for the gate agent to scribble the seat number on the back of her hand.
After boarding, the gate agent came on the plane looking for the passenger in 1D who had the identical name as the passenger in 1F. So it seems they checked us both in and them had to unload one of us. But in other words, yes, I could have travelled back on the original booking too.
I was able to re-schedule the original LHR-DME-LHR booking no problem though.