JetBlue checked us in automatically

On the last day of our recent vacation, I went to the Lobby Concierge desk of our Disney hotel. I asked the lady to check us in for our JetBlue flight and print our boarding passes.

She started to do it and said that she could print our boarding passes but it said we were already checked in.

That seemed odd to me. I seemed to recall having to state how many bags I was going to check the last time I checked in online, but she said it didn't ask.

I had her print our boarding passes. When I got back to the room I called JetBlue because I was afraid something might have been messed up. The JetBlue customer service rep said everything was fine.

Then I checked my email and saw one from JetBlue saying that it had checked us in automatically.

When did they start doing this? Is it common knowledge and I just missed it?

(We flew down on a different airline, obviously.)

That's odd. First I've heard about it.

http://www.bloomberg.com/bw/article...-idea-for-flight-check-ins-they-do-it-for-you

United Airlines will do this for you as well.

lost*in*cyberspace said:

http://www.bloomberg.com/bw/article...-idea-for-flight-check-ins-they-do-it-for-you

United Airlines will do this for you as well.

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Yup. Had this happen for the first time with United last April. Only snag was that our checked bag needed to be added through RAC, which was really easy to do. I'm loving electronic boarding passes except when flying back home to Canada where United insists on a paper one to write on when they check my passport.

I can't say for sure when JB started this, but I first noticed it on our February flights. I've had it each and every time since (4 additional flights).

This is generally helpful, but if you want to change your flight on day of travel you have to cancel the check-in first then you can change it. Not a big deal, but I always get butterflies hitting a cancel button on anything electronic

I guess it might have seemed helpful if I had known it was going to happen. Since I was taken by surprise, it caused panic instead. I was afraid we were going to the airport and find out that there was a problem.