PUCCI GALORE

I am sure that this has been flogged to death in the past but I may as well ask this now.

I used OLCI on Thursday and again on Saturday. On Thusday it did not allow me in as it said that I was too early! I went straight back round and it was fine - it must have been a few seconds early. We checked in and we were not the first. Now this was for a LGW-DRS. Who or why would others be checked in earlier - I mean about 11 or 12 people. Now this is not a beef - I am just curious.

Secondly - and this is a minor peeve - when you do OLCI it never gives you any Lounge information - even though the service knows full well that you are Gold/Silver/CE. Is this a back door way to save money? It means that you have to go to a desk and ask. That is no big deal - but that is what OLCI seeks to avoid. Am I missing something to click that will tell me?

Lastly, DRS is IMUO one of the most pleasant airports that I have used in a long time. It is easily accessable from downtown and the full fare is - wait for it - E1.80. I kid you not.

Best of all - as there is no lounge - they give you a voucher for E15 each! It is accepted everywhere - including the Duty Free shop where Bombay is E19 a 47.7% proof litre. They subsidised my gin! ^^^.

Him Indoors clanked as he got onboard!

GLAFlyer

People on connecting flights get to OLCI for all the flights 24 hours before the first sector. So the 11 or so could have connected from another flight.

PUCCI GALORE

Really? So far in advance? Goodness Gracious me.

DYKWIA

Yep. If they'd connected from the US, they'd have had a good 10 hour OLCI head start on passengers starting their journey at LGW.

Cheers,
Rick

OPebble

Are you sure? For example I am on a 13:05 LHR > MAD tomorrow with a return on Wed at 17:30. I know from experience it won't let me check in for the return. However I sometimes get a 14:30 return and OLCI lets me check in for both legs.

James S

The second of two connecting flights can be OLCI'd more than 24 hours in advance but IME return flights cannot.

JS

Cyba

This might be a stupid question but how did you know you were not first? From the serial number on your BP?

johnaalex

Is the voucher unique to DRS? I didn't get anything when flying from CTA last month and there is no lounge there

Rickshaw

From the sequence number on the boarding pass.

James S

Yes the SEQ number tells you how many pax have already checked in at the time you checked in.

PUCCI GALORE

No idea Sweetheart - but I bet there was something - only you had to ask - and my contention is that you should not have to. You should be told and I cannot see any reason why you were not.

Anyhow - Guess who was a Happy Bunny!

Smirnoff

You put him in handcuffs?

710 77345

Yes - the sequence number "Seq" on your boarding pass shows how many people have checked in before you.

Cyba

Thanks guys. I know what the sequence number says - i was just wondering if there was something else going on here as Pucci didn't mention printing their boarding passes.

PUCCI GALORE

No that was an oversight - yes I printed them both on both occasions.