IceTrojan

If booked in Y, then no. OWS status matters not for AS lounge access, and AS flights don't count as oneworld.

If on revenue C/F, then yes to the Board Room, by virtue of your premium fare. Unsure about about Plaza Premium.

siaa380

Thanks!

Finkface

It's my understanding that it makes no difference who or even if you are flying when you are using a day pass. I've never been asked for a BP when entering using a day pass. I am sometimes asked what flight I am on in PDX but only because the staff are so great that they want to check to see whether it's on time for me. Not because they want to make sure I am flying on AS.

withnail1967

Hi guys, I'm flying from New York to Los Angeles as a part of my honeymoon. When I booked tickets I forgot to reserve seats. I checked yesterday but it gave me this message "All seats available for pre-assignment are taken. Seats may become available closer to departure or during check-in, otherwise please see an Airport Customer Service Agent on the day of departure for a seat assignment." Does this mean that we're likely to get bumped from the flight? If so my wife will kill me!

Thanks in advance for any replies

Kanaha

Will there be a problem if I bought a round trip companion ticket and on the return trip only the companion will be on he flight? As the purchaser, I would like to extend my flight and buy a separate one way ticket?

Alaska said it would cost the companion $259 to stay on the existing flight.

How would Alaska know that the purchaser is not on the flight? Will they collect the $259 somehow?

Thanks.

jackal

Not necessarily. Alaska reserves many seats on the plane for assignment by its elite members. If all of the regular non-elite seats are full, then there very well may be a bunch of seats open in the elite section. These will either become available to you at online check-in or you will be assigned to one by an airport agent.

There are ways to see all seats on the plane (for example, the seat selection page you're looking at only shows you seats you can pick, but the "view seats" option on the regular search results page shows all seats), but even if all seats are filled, there are still several seats held back for airport assignment, and remember that there are often a lot of no-shows and misconnects on each flight, so it's highly likely there will be an open seat for you. (Alaska is very good at not over-overbooking their flights--they have an industry-leading low bump rate.)

In the worst case, though, if you do get bumped, you should at least get a fat wad of cash for the inconvenience, so wave some money around at your wife and maybe she won't be as mad at you.

When the gate agents go to close the flight, they will see that there are some booked passengers who haven't boarded. They will likely make a couple of terminal-wide PA announcements for these passengers to immediately proceed to the gate for their flight, and when they don't, a few keystrokes will mark the passengers who didn't board as "no-shows" and automatically offload them from the flight so they can close the flight out and get it on the way on-time.

As far as I know, nothing pops up on their screen in this case with any type of alert saying that the passenger is on a companion reservation and cannot be split or anything, so I am fairly sure that the companion would be perfectly fine to travel.

Even if some alert does pop up, the gate agents are trying their hardest to get the flight out on time, so they would almost certainly not take the time to go in and deal with rebooking and reticketing the reservation, going on-board, finding your companion, pulling them off the flight, etc.--they simply don't have the time to do that. At the most, they might pop on and ask you if your companion forgot about the flight or something, but all your companion needs to say is simply "He/she couldn't make the flight" and off they go.

withnail1967

Many thanks for your help. I'm a wee bit less worried now

Edit: Or maybe not! I checked the flight online and there are only 3 seats left!

PV_Premier

thanks. AF ended up screwing the pooch on my inbound flight to the point where i would not have made the connection if my DL outbound was not also delayed. thus no stop off in the BR for me...but this is good info for next time.

l etoile

I have a flight tomorrow that starts with a US Air segment and then has an AA segment. I originally had it booked with my AS number knowing I would not get mileage credit for the US segment. When I just checked in on the US site, I, without thinking, put in my AA number. I see it printed on both my US and AA BPs. It's not the worst thing in the world if it stays like that, but I would rather it not.

Should I call and uncheck in and have the AA number removed and put AS back?
Would I be able to do this at the airport tomorrow?
Would I be able to have the first segment credit AA and then have the second segment changed at the gate at my first stop to AS?

The first segment is short so I really don't care if I don't get miles for it.

PV_Premier

An AA ticket agent at the airport tomorrow should be able to help you and is more likely to get the desired outcome than a phone agent (unless you have access to the elite line). I would also get paper BPs and save them, you can always contact AA/AS for adjustment of the miles after you see where they post. I don't believe that AA allows you to split credit for segments ahead of time, but what might work is to change the reservation FF# to AS, then claim retro-active credit with AA for the US segment after your trip. Good luck.

l etoile

So I ended up calling US Air/AA. They removed the AA number and put the AS number back. What I did seem to find by accident is I did not lose my premium seats that my AS status gets me when my AA number was in the record.

gloreglabert

I'm flying BOS-SAN next week and am wondering whether I can access a lounge either in BOS or SAN. My understanding is that board room members can access Delta SkyClubs in airports when there's no board room. I can access board rooms via my priority pass or 1-day passes I got from 75k status, and I can access skyclubs when flying Delta via my platinum card, but I assume neither of those will get me into the skyclub when flying Alaska. Am I SOL on lounge access for this trip?

tornado163

Last week I purchases a SEA-EWR round trip. SEA-EWR was H class so I'm waitlisted for an upgrade, EWR-SEA I used a gold guest upgrade. I checked this morning and the outbound fare has dropped by $50 (return fare is unchanged). If I use the price match guarantee will the following happen?

Outbound: Since I'd presumably drop below H class, I'd lose my waitlisted upgrade, at least until T-72 hours
Return: The fare class isn't changing, but would I still lose my first class seat and not get the gold guest upgrade returned to me? The flight still has U availability.

ETA: I found my own workaround. I went to my reservation and chose "change flights". Then I kept my return flight with it's 1st class upgrade, and was able to "change" my outbound flight to the same flight, but from H-->Q class to get my $50 credit. Outbound flight's in 2 weeks, so I doubt I would have gotten the gold upgrade anyway.

beckoa

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Its in a different terminal, but iirc there is an Airspace lounge in SAN you can access with your AMEX Plat. And in BOS there is an AF lounge you can access with PP (again, another terminal). So not completely shot, just a bit complicated.

gloreglabert

Thanks. Though I think it's unlikely that I'd get past TSA in Terminal E to get to the AF lounge when I'm flying out of C.