Today I fly AC 9169 (BCN-FRA, LH flight), connecting to AC 877 (FRA-YYZ), connecting to AC92 (YYZ-EZE). Ticket was purchased through a TA.

I cannot OLCI for any of the segments, even thought it is less than 24 hours before all departures. Lufthansa will not let me check in or select seats for BCN-FRA "because the ticket was issued by Air Canada" according to a telephone agent. Great incentive to use codeshare here - get stuck in the middle! But the worrisome thing is that AC is not letting me OLCI for any of its two segments. When I try FRA-YYZ, it says OLCI cannot be used for my booking. When I try YYZ-EZE, it says to check in for FRA-YYZ first. I noticed the ticket was issued on 016 stock, but I don't think that has been a problem in the past. Any ideas of what is going on?

I already know how this saga continues. The BCN Lufthansa agent won't be able to check me in for my AC flights either. When I arrive in FRA, there is a long line at the connection desk. By the time I make it to the front, my 18B seat that I've had for months has been given to someone else and I am in the back of the bus. Brilliant.

Just spent an useless 10 minutes with a phone agent. Apparently I cannot check in because:

- My flight is more than 24 hours away (not).
- I am waitlisted for an upgrade (right).
- My departure city (FRA) does not qualify for OLCI - only Canadian departures do (???).
- It is a codeshare flight (no, it is AC metal).

Where do they find these people?

The saga continues. LH agent at BCN airport was unable to access the AC portion of my booking or to issue boarding passes. This is going to suck...

BCN? Oh god. My sympathies.

Transfer desk at FRA the usual zoo. I went outside to the check-in counter, where an elderly gentleman on a Tango fare FOR THE NEXT DAY was trying to persuade the lone agent to pre-assign him a bulkhead for free. That took 15 minutes. I was able to check-in and keep my seat, although the agent had difficulty finding my booking. How hard does this have to be?

Now in the lounge - hopefully all of this will be redeemed at aerolotto...

Oh gosh! Good luck with your aerolotto.... At least you know it is not SSSS

I hope aerolotto works out for you.

As has been posted here before (perhaps even by me), when you are upgraded/waitlisted for an upgrade on the second leg of a connection, the system does not know which booking (original or u/g) to associate the first leg with, so it won't let you do OLCI. I was complaining about this very issue with a lounge agent yesterday. The agent said sympathetically "When you have a reservation on two flights, the default is to do nothing" (which strikes me as applicable to many many other aspects of AC IT)

Thanks for this info...

Explains exactly why I can't do OLCI for my YEG - YYC - LHR flights tomorrow.

Ah, thanks. It checks out - I was upgraded for the second leg, and waitlisted on the first. This has not been the case in the past for me, though. Looks like a relatively new enhancement.

And yes, aerolotto worked (which for a 31 hour itinerary from initial check-in to bags out was a welcome development!)