Seat moved after online checkin

[DC3]

… where people do online check-in the old-fashioned way and print a static physical paper boarding pass …

I didn’t realise that passengers still did the paper-boarding-pass-print-from-home method. I guess that some still do that. All I ever seem to see is smart phones being used at the gate to scan.

 

[SYD]

I didn’t realise that passengers still did the paper-boarding-pass-print-from-home method. I guess that some still do that. All I ever seem to see is smart phones being used at the gate to scan.

I think you can still scan your FF card (physical or virtual) and it’ll print out one of those receipt style BPs? Don’t think I’ve done that since the days of “Totem Pole” checkin on arrival!

But the app also helps avoid nasty surprises. There’s a “View/Change seat” function that:
a) shows your current seat (if you’ve been moved you will see that), and
b) show remaining available seats*

Interestingly, that was still working AFTER I boarded a MEL-SYD yesterday. I don’t know what would happen if I changed onboard? ie see a free row and take myself off to another seat with updated BP on phone!

*although some seats might be blocked by then and can’t be selected. eg shadows etc

 

[justinbrett]

Interestingly, that was still working AFTER I boarded a MEL-SYD yesterday. I don’t know what would happen if I changed onboard? ie see a free row and take myself off to another seat with updated BP on phone!

It would fail.