Nov 15, 2014, 2:15 pm
Air Canada introduces zoned boarding
Mar 26, 2017, 12:56 am
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Mar 26, 2017, 2:15 am
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The site specifically says "Customers who have purchased a Preferred seat board with zone 3".
Did you purchase a preferred seat, or did you obtain it in some other way?
Mar 26, 2017, 6:06 am
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Can you go into more details, because that contradicts the site, and being SE, you should NEVER be zone 5
The site specifically says "Customers who have purchased a Preferred seat board with zone 3".
Did you purchase a preferred seat, or did you obtain it in some other way?
The site specifically says "Customers who have purchased a Preferred seat board with zone 3".
Did you purchase a preferred seat, or did you obtain it in some other way?
Granted, they weren't purchased" per se but they were award tickets from my SE account.
Mar 26, 2017, 7:47 am
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That seems right. That is my experience as well. I assume you had to call in to get the preferred seats assigned? The other passengers only get those seats for "free" because they are traveling with you. But I've never had a gate agent refuse to allow them to board with me in Zone 1.
Mar 26, 2017, 1:42 pm
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Mar 26, 2017, 7:49 pm
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Mar 26, 2017, 7:53 pm
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Yes, but when the immediate family (plus one non-family travel companion) of an Altitude member travels with the Altitude member, they are entitled to board in the same priority zone regardless of whether they are on the same reservation. The boarding card will not say zone 1 but the entitlement is still there.
Mar 26, 2017, 7:55 pm
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Yes, but when the immediate family (plus one non-family travel companion) of an Altitude member travels with the Altitude member, they are entitled to board in the same priority zone regardless of whether they are on the same reservation. The boarding card will not say zone 1 but the entitlement is still there.
Mar 26, 2017, 8:05 pm
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Mar 26, 2017, 8:24 pm
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Interestingly enough, the outbound bp's all showed zone 1. Well, until the gate agent had to switch one of the seats on our PNR. Then the updated bp's ended up with zone 5.
However, on the outbound 4 out of 5 showed zone 5 at check-in, with mine showing as zone 1.
However, on the outbound 4 out of 5 showed zone 5 at check-in, with mine showing as zone 1.
Mar 26, 2017, 8:25 pm
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Mar 26, 2017, 8:38 pm
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OK thanks.
Same question if it is not a AE booking. If I book my spouse and me on one PNR will she also have access to preferred seats and priority boarding same as me. Less concerned about the priority boarding as the GAs allow family. I have had different answers from outstation GAs.
Same question if it is not a AE booking. If I book my spouse and me on one PNR will she also have access to preferred seats and priority boarding same as me. Less concerned about the priority boarding as the GAs allow family. I have had different answers from outstation GAs.
Mar 26, 2017, 9:52 pm
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OK thanks.
Same question if it is not a AE booking. If I book my spouse and me on one PNR will she also have access to preferred seats and priority boarding same as me. Less concerned about the priority boarding as the GAs allow family. I have had different answers from outstation GAs.
Same question if it is not a AE booking. If I book my spouse and me on one PNR will she also have access to preferred seats and priority boarding same as me. Less concerned about the priority boarding as the GAs allow family. I have had different answers from outstation GAs.
Mar 26, 2017, 10:57 pm
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I had this happen to me the other week and assumed it was a glitch. I went back into OLCI and reprinted the BPs and they printed as Zone 3. A glitch it must have been...
Mar 29, 2017, 12:05 pm
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Does this also apply if all of us are in Tango on one PNR (SE+3) ? Is there a link somewhere that I can quote from ? Transborder and Hawaii flights just in case there are diff rules.