Remember when we got PS passes for an IT/infrastructure meltdown, and then there was another IT/infrastructure meltdown a couple months later and it was all shhhhhhhhhh.

A question for the nonrev guru’s out there. My wife and I are possibly trying to nonrev SEA-BKK-SEA. We can get back and forth on Delta SEA-ICN and then MyID travel ICN-BKK and back. I’ve only done the MyID thing once and that was without checked baggage. The question: Do I need to claim checked baggage and recheck it as we pass thru ICN both ways or can I check it straight thru SEA-BKK and back?

Thanks in advance.

Denny

I don’t know about Korean Air specifically, but from experience, KLM and Air France will NOT send your luggage through to a delta non rev flight. I imagine it’s the same and You’ll have to clear immigration both ways in Korea to get your checked luggage.

I highly recommend trying to only bring a carry on suitcase and a backpack. With no checked bags, ICN is an amazing airport to transit as a non rev. I’d say AMS is the only international airport I can think of that is easier.

+1 on not checking if at all possible, no specific experience with ICN but the few times we've had to check (snowboards) always have to go outside security and re-check. Big pain in the arse.

Depending who you ZED on they may even check your carry on whether you like it or not at the gate. Good news at this point no need to go back out to security. Asian carriers have less tolerance for carry on size/weight than we do. Last time on Cathay they made us check our very normal 22" rollers (not the heavy metal pilot ones) so keep that in mind.

Thanks for the info guys. That’s kinda what I figured. As far as not checking bags, if it was just me, I definitely would NOT check any bags. Just not going to happen with the wife coming also.

I actually bought 2 round trip tickets on KAL for $1250 total. I couldn’t pass up that price for confirmed seats. It’s just going to be some long travel days sitting in coach. Hopefully the flights won’t be too full. Going over it’s SEA-ICN-BKK. Coming back it’s BKK-ICN-SFO-SEA.

I got the insurance so i can get the money back if decide to try and nonrev. Probably will just stick with the tickets though. We are meeting my brother and sister-in-law there.

Denny

Interesting...

75D/H always have felt like marketing took a flier fav and destroyed it with a few too many rows. Me's thinks it's the jammed door 2L/R that greets fliers with nothing but scores of coach seats, whereas before when boarding you saw bulkheads to the left closing off first class and then seats to the right. Even when I've sat in the F cabin, it feels crunched.

That door 2L is also why we can get people on/off a 757 quicker than the 321.

I thought the 717 were getting AVOD and sticking around until the end of the decade?

We have to order Boeing next go around to keep them actually interested in selling us planes. But do we really want to buy Boeing's next jet when everything new they've built since the Dreamliner is plagued with issues and grounded?

What?!! Umm, as long as we have the dinero, they're going to be interested. I can assure you of that.

Non-rev question about AMS. Travelnet says you won't be able to see the stand-by list until after the flight has departed (makes it kind of useless) because KLM runs things. Except when I look at Travelnet for a flight leaving later today I can see how many non-revs are listed.

Anyone with experience non-revving out of AMS have more info? Am I misunderstanding the warning on travelnet? Is the stand-by list not accurate and missing people?

Thanks.

You can view the basic standby list but not the airport standby list that shows who actually checked in, what priority they are, and what seats have been assigned, unless they've recently changed things.

You can’t see the airport standby list which shows actual standbys who have checked in both revenue and non revenue plus each persons place on the list.
I have found the AMS agents do not leave non revs behind like some agents in ATL, DTW and JFK. For all Captains inquiring at the gate if there are non revs and if they will make the flight seems to mitigate these issues since the agents know you are concerned and don’t want a last minute delay.