I flew out of HYS to MCI, connecting to YX on a separate fare. I asked the agent to check my bags through to my destination, and she said she needed the flight number, departure and arrival time. I gave her the flight number and approximate dept/arr time, and she said she needed the exact departure and arrival times. I asked her if she could look that up on her computer and she said she couldn't.
I opened up my laptop to retrieve the EXACT departure and arrival times (like 6:48 PM rather than quarter-to-seven), and then when the bag tag came out, it said MCI-LAX on YX 9. That wasn't right either; destination was LGA. I just checked the Midwest Airlines timetable and there is no YX 9 going to LAX (just in case YX messed up the flight numbers, which they didn't).
Is this a SHARES problem or was it something else? I've never had a problem on Air Midwest, and I've flown them a lot (but not since the res migration).
Contrast this with ZK (Great Lakes), who will check your bag through via DEN with just the flight number, even on Delta, with which they have no codeshare agreement at all. US @ HYS, on the other hand, is also a YX code-share station, yet they can't print a YX bag tag properly even with the flight number, exact departure time and exact arrival time?
The agent gave up on the computer and hand-wrote the bag tag for me. The bag still arrived at my destination, just like it did in the olden days when all bag tags were hand-written.
I opened up my laptop to retrieve the EXACT departure and arrival times (like 6:48 PM rather than quarter-to-seven), and then when the bag tag came out, it said MCI-LAX on YX 9. That wasn't right either; destination was LGA. I just checked the Midwest Airlines timetable and there is no YX 9 going to LAX (just in case YX messed up the flight numbers, which they didn't).
Is this a SHARES problem or was it something else? I've never had a problem on Air Midwest, and I've flown them a lot (but not since the res migration).
Contrast this with ZK (Great Lakes), who will check your bag through via DEN with just the flight number, even on Delta, with which they have no codeshare agreement at all. US @ HYS, on the other hand, is also a YX code-share station, yet they can't print a YX bag tag properly even with the flight number, exact departure time and exact arrival time?
The agent gave up on the computer and hand-wrote the bag tag for me. The bag still arrived at my destination, just like it did in the olden days when all bag tags were hand-written.