rossmacd

LX still do this. You have to opt-in in the LX version for MMB for you to be auto-checked in at T-24. I never select this option, as I have heard you can be placed in some questionable seats.

AlienInTheFatherland

Basically the same with Lufty:

system works on intra-Schengen bookings

BP will be sent to twenty-three hours befores scheduled departure (i.e. when their OLCI opens)

you have to opt in (which I haven't) rather than out and this has to be on your profile - it doesn't apply to individual bookings.

Andrew35K

Is it possible to opt out of auto check-in? I want to use the same-day free change, but it’s a hassle when you have to call to get it changed.

corporate-wage-slave

I haven't seen a whisper about auto-check-in for a very long time. At least for my travelling it seems not to happen now, and I often OLCI just a couple of hours before departure, particularly out of EDI.

SHT88T

Personally I hate the idea of this. Please give me an opt out button before this rolls out system wide.

I prefer to check in very late, simply to give myself the opportunity to move my seat or flight closer to departure time with ease. We live in a digital world, I shouldn’t have to call the airline as a result of their imposed process to make a change that can be facilitated through self service.

GentleGiant

What is the risk of BA taking you off a flight if you don't check in quickly or changing your seat?

Just concerned that you might lose your front seat if you delay check in until a few hours before the flight.

KARFA

pretty much zero.

fruitcage

This is a very old thread and auto check-in seems to have never got past the trial phase.

ExpatExp

Thanks -- I learned something today Were the coupons the red carbon paper things that were stapled to the back of the boarding cards? Or was that the ticket?

Globaliser

The ticket consisted of a booklet with a coupon for each flight and a receipt at the bottom (plus one or two more sheets above the first flight coupon, which the ticketing office would keep). Each coupon had red carbon on the back, so when you wrote on the top sheet the same automatically copied through onto every coupon below and onto the receipt. When you checked in for a flight, the coupon for that flight would be pulled out of the booklet to pay for that flight. Sometimes, the coupon would be stapled to the back of the boarding pass, so that it wasn't physically taken off you until you boarded at the gate, but there were times when the coupon would be taken away at check-in.

When laser-printed card tickets came in, the red carbon tickets were replicated by printing one card for each coupon and one receipt card at the bottom of the booklet. The relevant coupon would still be pulled at check-in, and collected by the airline either at check-in or at the gate on boarding.

As Calchas says, current e-tickets on mainstream airlines are basically electronic replicas of the old red carbon booklets. Conceptually, little has changed. And hence the same terminology is still used.