Timeline for What is the purpose of check-in before flying?
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| Mar 1, 2022 at 23:42 | comment | added | jetset | @Thomas Ahle If you miss a flight for which you're holding confirmed space and for which you have a matching ticket coupon, the ticket doesn't get cancelled, but the airline is likely to cancel all downstream flights. You may or may not have usable value left on the ticket. Depending on the fare, the airline may impose a no-show, change, and/or reissue fees, or the ticket may have no remaining value. On some fares, the full value of the ticket remains, but those fares aren't sold as often as more restrictive fares. | |
| Feb 28, 2022 at 18:33 | comment | added | Thomas Ahle | Are you saying that in the US, if I miss a flight, my ticket is still valid? I have never heard of this... | |
| Nov 21, 2016 at 2:18 | comment | added | jetset | Depends how you define check in. Many airlines will give you a "priority verification card" in lieu of a boarding pass when you try to check in for a flight that is oversold and you are too low on the list to be assured a seat. You're not really checked in since you aren't confirmed on the flight, but you are on the standby list so the gate agent will clear you if there is space and will give you a boarding pass at that time. | |
| Nov 18, 2016 at 18:31 | comment | added | DTRT | Not really, even in an oversell, you can still check-in. They want you at the gate. IDB is handled by gate staff and check-in time is frequently a determining factor in who gets IDB. | |
| Nov 18, 2016 at 6:24 | comment | added | user4188 | Absolutely. It's called Involuntarily Denied Boarding and you will be compensated. If there are more people than seats or other reasons, then the airline first seeks volunteers who are willing to fly later and then begins to IDB people starting with the lowest paid tickets. But they will try avoid IDB at almost all costs: I was Austin once when a huge multi day sporting event an also huge conference ended the same day and the airport was a total gong show, United gave me $400 to not fly but Delta was giving $1200 to volunteers to give up their New York bound seats!! | |
| Nov 17, 2016 at 8:55 | comment | added | Gregory Magarshak | wait, are you saying that airlines can overbook a plane and not let you on even though you paid for the ticket? | |
| May 30, 2014 at 21:46 | history | answered | jetset | CC BY-SA 3.0 |