ARCHIVE: All About AA Flagship Check-In at JFK, LAX, MIA, ORD (master thread)
Jan 8, 2018, 7:14 am
#151
Join Date: May 2009
Location: LGA, JFK
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I suppose you could try. I am not sure if AA can check you in without an AA flight. On connecting CX flights, such as in MIA, if you are connecting to CX first via AA flight, you can use Flagship check-in and they do print you CX BPs. But, I think the key is the first flight is AA. (I have never tried a direct check-in at NYC/LAX/etc.)
Jan 8, 2018, 8:42 am
#152
Join Date: Mar 2010
Location: DEN
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Hi everyone, I think I know the answer to this question but I'd like to confirm - if I have access to Flagship Check-In as a Oneworld emerald, can I take a guest who is not on the same PNR but on an AA flight through with me?
Jan 8, 2018, 8:28 pm
#153
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Yes you can. Just did exactly that at Flagship check-in In Miami today. And it wasn’t even really for me, as I already had my boarding pass, but the person I was travelling with needed to check in. Not a problem at all.
Jan 9, 2018, 2:08 pm
#154
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Location: South Florida
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The wiki and aa.com state that EXPs can using Flagship check in on eligible international flights. I'm assuming I can use this when flying LAX-MIA-EZE even though my first flight is domestic, right?
I'm not sure if I'm reading too much into the verbiage saying "flights" instead of "itineraries".
I'm not sure if I'm reading too much into the verbiage saying "flights" instead of "itineraries".
Jan 11, 2018, 6:42 am
#155
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The wiki and aa.com state that EXPs can using Flagship check in on eligible international flights. I'm assuming I can use this when flying LAX-MIA-EZE even though my first flight is domestic, right?
I'm not sure if I'm reading too much into the verbiage saying "flights" instead of "itineraries".
I'm not sure if I'm reading too much into the verbiage saying "flights" instead of "itineraries".
Jan 11, 2018, 9:25 am
#156
Join Date: Sep 2014
Location: NYC
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I've been "turned away" (I probably could have pushed but not worth the hassle) at JFK before because I'm "not on the list" as EXP flying JFK/LAX/HKG -- so I'm not sure you end up on the "list" (what the checker at the Flagship Check-In area has as a printed list of the day's Flagship folk), even if you have qualified access if you originally check-in at the domestic leg...
So be prepared just in case!
So be prepared just in case!
Jan 11, 2018, 9:31 am
#157
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I've been "turned away" (I probably could have pushed but not worth the hassle) at JFK before because I'm "not on the list" as EXP flying JFK/LAX/HKG -- so I'm not sure you end up on the "list" (what the checker at the Flagship Check-In area has as a printed list of the day's Flagship folk), even if you have qualified access if you originally check-in at the domestic leg...
So be prepared just in case!
So be prepared just in case!
I have been denied access to Flagship Check-In at JFK exactly 50% of the times that I was eligible for it. At LAX, ORD, and MIA I have never had a problem, so it's specific to JFK. One of the times I was denied entry I was flying JFK-MIA-SCL in F, and I wasn't on the list, and the other three were for trying to access it via my Oneworld Emerald status with LATAM, but again I "wasn't on the list." I don't know why they can't get it right there when everywhere else functions without a hitch.
Last edited by zpaul; Jan 11, 2018 at 11:46 am
Jan 11, 2018, 10:58 am
#158
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I've always had issues with this at JFK......is it because those people are contract workers?
Jan 11, 2018, 11:47 am
#159
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Jan 11, 2018, 3:59 pm
#160
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Last edited by pmblinn; Jan 11, 2018 at 4:04 pm Reason: clarified status
Jan 12, 2018, 5:46 pm
#161
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YAY! I was finally on the list today and a REAL AA employee was working the door entrance....there is hope!
Jan 13, 2018, 1:54 pm
#162
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Jan 13, 2018, 8:06 pm
#163
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Used Flagship check-in today for flight 172 from LAX to JFK and really appreciated it. Using it in the past, I never really thought it expedited anything but today there was somewhat of a line at TSA Pre. My escort took me to the front of the line and I sailed through.
Jan 19, 2018, 1:02 am
#164
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Does the ORD location have direct PRECHK access?
Thanks in advance.
Thanks in advance.
Jan 19, 2018, 4:32 am
#165
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