Originally Posted by jack_essex
I have managed to select our seats on the LHR-JFK sector but on the JFK-LHR leg was unable to do this as booked at the last minute. As I have already selected our seats for Saturday is there any point checking in online?
There is, even if you have already chosen your seats. The benefits are only marginal, but they include the ability to change your seats if better seats are offered to you when you OLCI than the ones you already have - so it's always worth having a quick look.
Originally Posted by jack_essex
When I am checking in online and it tells me to print the boarding pass out, what do I do? Do I just leave the whole process or is there an option to collect your boarding pass at the airport?
I don't remember ever seeing an option to positively decline to print my own boarding pass. When you have checked in, you will see a confirmation screen that gives you your flight time, seat allocation, etc. It then offers you the chance to print your own boarding pass, with a big red button to do so. If you don't want to print your own boarding pass,
do not click this. Instead, just print that confirmation page if you can (as an aide memoire, not an official document), then go to the bottom of the page and click the "Exit" link in the bottom left hand corner.
This also gives you the option of going back to OLCI and checking-in again if you want to see if any better seats have come up later.
If for some reason you mess this up and end up printing a boarding pass, I'm sure that a check-in agent at the airport will happily replace this with a "real" one.