Can I borrow your United confirmation number?

October 25, 2007 10:53 AM

Can I borrow your United confirmation number and last name for your flight departing within 24 hours?

I am modifying a boarding pass kiosk for our conference facility that allows attendees to print boarding passes before departing for the airport. basically, it's a web kiosk with links to the online check-in pages or airlines flying out of our local airport. United passengers have trouble printing their boarding passes because the obvious method of printing the passes (the big print icon) doesn't work with our setup. Attendees must instead click a non-obvious link to display the boarding pass in a separate window before printing.

I'm writing up an instruction page for United passengers that will appear before they are taken to the United online check-in page, but in order to do it well, I need run through all the necessary steps myself and take detailed notes/screenshots/etc. Nobody I know is booked for travel on United in the next 24 hours (the window the online check-in page requires), so I thought I'd ask here. I realize this is a huge long shot due to privacy concerns, but it never hurts to ask.

If you can trust me with your info, please send it to the email in my profile.

posted by pmbuko to computers & internet (9 comments total)

Can't you modify the "non obvious link" to be underlined or to say "CLICK ME TO PRINT YOUR BOARDING PASS"?
posted by cmgonzalez at 10:54 AM on October 25, 2007

If you're feeling brave, you could buy a fully refundable airline ticket.
posted by smackfu at 11:13 AM on October 25, 2007

The page in question is on United's domain. Modifying it would require a proxy or firewall filter, which I'd rather not get in to.
posted by pmbuko at 11:13 AM on October 25, 2007

Got it - check your gmail.
posted by Coffeemate at 11:24 AM on October 25, 2007

Awesome! I have to wait until a few hours to use it, but you've been extremely helpful. If you were flying in to Dulles, I'd buy you a beer.
posted by pmbuko at 11:26 AM on October 25, 2007

did I mention I love this site?
posted by pmbuko at 11:27 AM on October 25, 2007

The info didn't quite work. Any other takers, please?
posted by pmbuko at 5:35 PM on October 25, 2007

Um - what do you mean it didn't quite work? I don't have a flight with them for another month and a half or so, but when I do I'll try to remember to help you out. Email me if you don't have one by early December.
posted by allkindsoftime at 3:13 AM on October 26, 2007

Maybe greasemonkey would do what you need to the United site?
posted by Four Flavors at 12:06 PM on October 28, 2007