Weird OLCI & Mobile Notification Behavior
Mar 8, 2018, 10:00 am
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Weird OLCI & Mobile Notification Behavior
This behavior has happened to me on four consecutive trips so I'm starting to think it's a "feature" - here's the sequence:
Anybody else seeing this?
- Start OLCI via mobile app right at T-24 (or in some cases T-23:30 etc)
- Go through normal check-in process/seat selection etc.
- As soon as I click to finalize check-in, but before it's completed, I get a text notification informing me that check-in is available
Anybody else seeing this?
Mar 8, 2018, 10:10 am
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Yea. I don’t know for sure when UA sends a text out about checking in, but I’ve checked in and completed the process hours before I get a text ‘reminding’ me to check in.
Its probably just because the text is automated. I don’t know the exact time when it’s programmed to go out.
Its probably just because the text is automated. I don’t know the exact time when it’s programmed to go out.
Mar 8, 2018, 10:11 am
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I don't this is at all unexpected. You're starting OLCI right at the time is opens up.
United probably begins to send out the "available" messages a bit after the actual time - I don't remember ever getting one on the dot.
Those messages are automated, and I don't think there's any real time connection to the OLCI module to stop the message once you're checked and certainly not while you're in the process of doing so.
United probably begins to send out the "available" messages a bit after the actual time - I don't remember ever getting one on the dot.
Those messages are automated, and I don't think there's any real time connection to the OLCI module to stop the message once you're checked and certainly not while you're in the process of doing so.
Mar 8, 2018, 10:14 am
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I generally get those emails after I've already completed check-in.
Mar 8, 2018, 10:19 am
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Makes me nostalgic for "Mr. Sleezy Update" who'd routinely send me an automated flight cancellation message hours after I'd been rebooked and was sitting home in my living room. I actually had a similar one a couple weeks ago. DEN-ORD flight cancelled, I got on an earlier one by sheer luck and timing. Hours later I'm at home and I get a text telling me I'd been rebooked onto a flight the next morning.
Mar 8, 2018, 12:19 pm
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IME the checkin notices come around T-23:40 to T-23, regardless if I have checked in or not.
Suspect coincidence
What would be the purpose of sending a notice only triggered by the start pf check-in?
Suspect coincidence
What would be the purpose of sending a notice only triggered by the start pf check-in?
Mar 9, 2018, 6:51 am
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It's very likely coincidence, but the timing was near real-time so I couldn't rule out some weird systemic issue off the bat. I'm just glad mobile check-in works pretty smoothly most of the time!
Mar 9, 2018, 7:30 am
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Cause I'll select new seats if better ones open up and then just stop.Holding off so the PNRs don't split / for that last upgrade! #WaitingForThatUpgrade
#AndStillWaiting
Mar 9, 2018, 7:36 am
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Those check-in reminder text messages come around T-23, so it's a timing thing.
If OP wants to test the theory/conspiracy, check in at T-22 or later and see what happens. Based on my personal experience, those text messages will still show up.
If OP wants to test the theory/conspiracy, check in at T-22 or later and see what happens. Based on my personal experience, those text messages will still show up.