When does BA check-in open for connecting flights following a stopover ?
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On 20th Nov, we fly from EDI-LHR with an overnight stopover then LHR-LAX the following morning. My BA app says check-in for the EDI-LHR flight opens 24 hours before on the 19th Nov.
If I check-in for the EDI-LHR flight on the 19th Nov exactly 24 hours before departure, will it also allow us to check-in for the LHR-LAX flight at the same time even though thats more than 24 hours away ? And more importantly (because we’re blue members), will it allow us to select our seats free of charge for the LHR-LAX flight ?
You used to be able to check in for both flights when the first one opened, but for a couple of years now we’ve had to wait until T-24 for each flight before being able to do so. This would also affect seat selection, I guess, if you haven’t already selected them.
Airport check in staff can check you al the way through and issue boarding passes before T-24 where there are multiple flights on the same PNR, which may or may not help depending on whether you’ll be at EDI more than 24 hours before the second flight.
I recently got a boarding pass at LHR for a subsequent AA connection LAX – HNL when the AA app was still telling me nine hours until check in.
On the app you can definitely only check in for each flight at T-24. However, I’m sure i read reference on FlyerTalk that checking in on the full web still allows you to check in for connecting flights at T-24 for the first flight.
Certainly desk check in at airports will do full check in.Just do it old fashioned way at desk.
I’ve been unable to do it on both the app and website for the past couple of years. The other thing which seems to have changed is that each passenger now has to get their own boarding pass so one person can’t just check everyone in and be done with it!
When we have checked bags and can’t avoid going to the desk, yes they can check you through and also insist on printing paper boarding passes even if you don’t need them. (Though occasionally this can be because they’ve upgraded you or given you a better seat, so it’s not all bad, lol).
Slightly off topic, but you can still check everyone in and download a PDF with multiple boarding passes via the web OLCI.
Or at least you could in March, I guess with the ongoing ‘developments’ anything is a bit of a moving target.
You can do that but if you’re away and in a hotel or whatever it’s a bit of a chore these days finding a printer!
You don’t need a printer, just use the PDF on your phone. It’s actually better than using the app anyway on Android as the app boarding passes stopped including your BA number and status some time ago, while the PDFs continue to include that.
You don’t need a printer, just use the PDF on your phone. It’s actually better than using the app anyway on Android as the app boarding passes stopped including your BA number and status some time ago, while the PDFs continue to include that.
You don’t even need a printer or indeed PDF. One person can check in the whole party on the same booking and the individual passenger can retrieve their digital boarding cards or BA emails the boarding card they can download.
Ah well, that’s another story. Last month the ability to email boarding passes was ‘temporarily unavailable while we improve our systems’. But yes I agree once checked in, anyone should be able to use the app to download their own boarding pass – assuming they can get the app to work at all that is.
I did say that everyone needs to retrieve their own BP now (as opposed to checking in). It used to be easy for one person in the party to get them all and send them to the other passengers’ phone wallets. More convenient if you’re in a group, anyway.
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