OLCI question
 

I couldn’t find the answers with a search but figured that the mileage runners of The Box would have a quick, accurate answer for us old folks who follow your adventures.

Mrs. SG & I are doing an MR which involves 4 segments in multiple time zones. The exact itinerary is:

MSY - IAH CO222 5:30 AM CDT
IAH - SFO CO378 9:00 AM CDT
SFO - IAH CO1716 12:00 PM PDT
IAH-MSY CO423 7:00 PM CDT

When we OLCI 24hrs before the first segment and auto check in for the rest of the flights, can we select seats and print boarding passes for the remaining segments or do we have to wait for 24hrs before each flights departure time.

Congrats to all of you who are recently engaged.

TIA for your help.

You should be able to grab a seat on all segments as soon as you check-in for the first flight. (I'm assuming that they are on the same day)

You can select seat assignments on all of the segments 24 hours prior to the first segment.

They're all on the same day.

Thanks again.

Hmmm - my experiences have been a bit different. I can check-in for the outbound 24 hrs before the first segment but then I need to wait and check in again for the return 24 hrs before that flight (in this case, the 3rd flight).

Really? This looks like a MSY-SFO round trip run, albeit all on the same day. My experience with OLCI for a same-day turn was that I could only check in for the outbound segments and the return segments had to be handled at an airport, which wasn't very hard to make happen. So they may only get the outbound segments with seats at OLCI.

That's my experience as well...

Yeah, I've had mixed experiences with this. A couple of times I've been able to check-in for the return at the same time I checked-in for the outbound.

I wonder if it has anything as to how it was booked. When I've booked something as a multi-segment trip it allowed me to check-in at the 24 hour mark.

That could be it. If you are flying a multi-segment trip in one day there may not be a clearly defined destination to determine the 24hr mark of the return. Same day trips with a clearly defined destination definitely require 2 check-ins though.

I'll see what happens and leave a window of opportunity for a second OLCI (trying for legroom if we don't get EUA's)

It's a pure MR, same day RT. The SFO connection is 53 min. I've looked at the pda info site and it appears that the AC for the SFO outbound is a turn around on the inbound AC so we should be able to deplane and be right at the desk for the GA if we need to pick up boarding passes.

It was booked as a RT, not a multi-segment.

Hmmm... http://blog.seattle-deliveries.com/2...526ba-pic.html

Interesting
Too Bad it not a 77W though :cool:

There's only two airlines that would have any interest in that bird. Of the two, I think CO would be more likely to snap it up, given its widebody shortage. It would be a shame to see such a young airframe get chopped up for parts. I wonder whether another 764 would be sufficient to allow CO to start up a new route (IAH-MAD, EWR-DME, EWR-PRG (by shuffling a 762), EWR-VCE (see PRG), EWR-LOS, etc.), or whether they would just use it to return widebody service to existing airports where 752s have subbed in to maintain capacity.

Seems like the two new 772s won't arrive until 2nd half of 2009, and who knows about the 787s. PVG starts in March, and in the early part of summer, CO will be extremely short on widebody aircrafts. They need this 764 to help out, and probably need to wet lease another 1 or 2 767/777s aircrafts just to maintain European capacity.

While all of this is going on DL is looking to fly from the east coast to SYD using the
772 LR