Waitlist expired for SWU supported UG?
Mar 15, 2012, 3:08 pm
#16
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If you are flying sfo-ord-ams and you go to the airport the day before at <24 hours to sfo-ord departure to check in will you get added to the airport W/L for both segments? My recollection was on PMUA you could only checkin for departures within 24 hours including any connections.
Mar 15, 2012, 3:11 pm
#17
Join Date: Dec 2002
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If you are flying sfo-ord-ams and you go to the airport the day before at <24 hours to sfo-ord departure to check in will you get added to the airport W/L for both segments? My recollection was on PMUA you could only checkin for departures within 24 hours including any connections.
Mar 15, 2012, 3:16 pm
#18
Join Date: Jul 2005
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Thanks for the feedback. I should be able to confirm whether this is true shortly. But regardless, this is a *very bad* development. It means that by the time you go to the airport to have yours docs checked, you will be behind everyone else that has only the domestic leg!. So effectively, if your domestic portion of a SWU supported UG does not clear before T-24, then you are hosed.
In PMUA, even if you had to have your docs checked, you will be put in the UG list in the proper order. Yet another change that I don't like and may influence my travel patterns. More so if the same happens for the international portions, as being reported in another thread.
In PMUA, even if you had to have your docs checked, you will be put in the UG list in the proper order. Yet another change that I don't like and may influence my travel patterns. More so if the same happens for the international portions, as being reported in another thread.
In fact, it was my understanding that your supporting the upgrade with an SWU would put you ahead of anyone using miles (if not TODs
).Is this inaccurate?
Mar 15, 2012, 3:47 pm
#19
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Update:
If you are on an international itinerary you are not officially "checked in" until you are at the airport and someone has looked at your passport. It doesn't matter if you did OLCI or not. So I would not worry.
I'm looking at the waitlist for my international flight tomorrow and it shows 0 "checked in" in J. And I'm sure that people have done OLCI at this point. There are also no names on the upgrade list yet.
I'm looking at the waitlist for my international flight tomorrow and it shows 0 "checked in" in J. And I'm sure that people have done OLCI at this point. There are also no names on the upgrade list yet.
I much prefer the PMUA algorithm where you were entered in the upgrade list at OLCI, even if docs needed to be checked. So Caveat emptor ..
Thanks to all for the comments
Mar 15, 2012, 4:01 pm
#20
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Being added to other lists might not happen, but I've been fully checked in only with OLCI more than once.
Mar 15, 2012, 4:15 pm
#21
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I had traveled internationally recently (albeit pre 3/3) in both PMUA and PMCO and had my passport scanned. Yet, factually, it seemed that I was not fully checked in until my docs were checked at the airport. I will report back in a week or so whether having docs scanned after 3/3 enables "full" OLCI or not.
Mar 15, 2012, 6:48 pm
#22
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This is not the case if you are traveling to a non-visa destination and you have scanned your passport in at a kiosk at some point recently so that they have the real info in their systems. It is absolutely possible to be checked in at that point. There may still be a need to verify docs, but that doesn't prohibit you from being checked in.
Being added to other lists might not happen, but I've been fully checked in only with OLCI more than once.
Being added to other lists might not happen, but I've been fully checked in only with OLCI more than once.