Just wondering if anyone has ever been able to get a reservation agent to break-up the segments of a multi-stop flight on your PNR...so if the seats you want in Y are available from SEA-JNU but not the short JNU-SIT hop, you can at least reserve them for the longer first segment and sit somewhere else for the other.

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I have done this @ the airport- on the milkrun I was moving nearly every segment SEA-KTN-WRG-JNU IIRC. Happens a lot w/ multi stop flights. And one does only get credit for the full flight # (for me SEA-JNU)

So if the milkrun is booked as separate segments (with potentially different seat assignments), do you actually get off the plane at each stop and have your boarding pass scanned since they would presumably all be "connection" cities?

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I did but no, one would normally stay on the plane AFAIK...

Could you get off the plane and SDC to a later flight?

It's not booked as separate segments. Technically, in the computer, it's booked as a single segment with split seat assignments. While relatively complicated, the GAs who handle the milkruns are fairly used to dealing with it.

Doubt it. You'd probably crash Sabre by trying to do that.

In all seriousness, I'm not sure how that would be handled. Technically, you can't SDC to a later flight, because that would be a routing change (adding a stop to a direct flight). The computer would probably forbid it as a straight SDC, but a creative GA (which I gather there are many of in Southeast Alaska) could probably get around it...

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...If there is another flight

True. I was thinking like JNU or KTN.

Don't try to SDC in, say, PSG.

I am on DL award this summer and after I booked it (one of the flights being the SEA-JNU milkrun), I noticed that the seat selections were much better from SEA-PSG than all the way to JNU. Alaska reservations said they couldn't do split seat assignments but to check at the gate (yeah right, when everything is already gone) so I called Delta and asked if they could split the trip into a SEA-PSG segment and then a PSG-JNU segment. After some time, effort, and patience on their part, they were able to split the trip which allowed me to get better seats on the SEA-PSG portion. The odd thing about it is that seat assignment changes now need to be done over the phone because alaska-air.com, while showing the two segments and separate seat assignments, still shows SEA-JNU when you try to pull up the seat map and change seats...you end up getting red error messages no matter what kind of seat change you want to do...I think it must be too much for the computer...lol...oh well, I got what I wanted.

Was it an AS or DL agent who got you the seat assignment over the phone? If DL, I would be concerned that they didn't just end up requesting certain seats without them necessarily being assigned.

Both...but I made some changes with AS and my record on AS shows all the correct seat assignments.

Boarding pass-wise, yes. Example AA2963 is a direct JFK-CVG-MIA but may only credit as JFK-MIA if not broken up into two boarding passes. For this particular flight number, I'm able to get a separate mobile passes JFK-CVG, CVG-MIA. Screen-captured then submitted for retroactive crediting.