Southwest priority boarding
Oct 31, 2012, 8:47 am
#1
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Southwest priority boarding
Let's do the math on this one. Southwest does not list the total number of $10 priority boarding passes they sell for each flight. Their 737s hold 137 passengers. If everyone pays the extra $10, Southwest makes a tidy profit of $1370 and 47 people still get stuck in the middle seat!
Oct 31, 2012, 10:04 am
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I doubt that all passengers will request the early bird check-in for $10. Many of the pax are A-List, and have no need for EB. Also, many will not buy EB, and will instead check-in at exactly T-24 hrs, hoping to get the best A boarding group number.
Oct 31, 2012, 12:35 pm
#5
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Well I bought an EB a few flights ago about a month ahead of schedule and got stuck in B. Obviously a lot of people are buying these. I got A-48 on a flight I booked in early August that I flew this past Monday. The novelty is starting to wear off for me.......
Nov 5, 2012, 11:57 am
#6
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I've A-listed into the A-50's on several occations. I've also been in the low teens on many occations. A-16 today - I think that is the first non-BS position.
My understanding is that A-list is supposed to be ahead of EB? If so, then those EB's behind me must have been rethinking that $10 fee.
As far as I know, the only way to guarentee one of the first seats on the plane is to buy Business Select - and even then you don't get to displace all of the folks already seated on the plane who are just flying through.
My understanding is that A-list is supposed to be ahead of EB? If so, then those EB's behind me must have been rethinking that $10 fee.
As far as I know, the only way to guarentee one of the first seats on the plane is to buy Business Select - and even then you don't get to displace all of the folks already seated on the plane who are just flying through.
Nov 5, 2012, 2:21 pm
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I've A-listed into the A-50's on several occations. I've also been in the low teens on many occations. A-16 today - I think that is the first non-BS position.
My understanding is that A-list is supposed to be ahead of EB? If so, then those EB's behind me must have been rethinking that $10 fee.
As far as I know, the only way to guarentee one of the first seats on the plane is to buy Business Select - and even then you don't get to displace all of the folks already seated on the plane who are just flying through.
My understanding is that A-list is supposed to be ahead of EB? If so, then those EB's behind me must have been rethinking that $10 fee.
As far as I know, the only way to guarentee one of the first seats on the plane is to buy Business Select - and even then you don't get to displace all of the folks already seated on the plane who are just flying through.
You can put on some pounds if needed and be a COS, you can lose some age and be an UM, you can be a newsperson with large camera equipment, a musician with a large musical instrument, in a wheelchair or even just temporarily hobbled, an LEO or a jump seat passenger. We all get to preboard.
Nov 5, 2012, 2:58 pm
#8
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Media "pre-board" is now after the A group with families.
That being said when I worked at a newspaper and traveled extensively with camera gear that cost more than most Toyotas, I never had any trouble with WN. The FAs and pilots went out of their way to make sure my camera bag stayed on the plane. ^
That being said when I worked at a newspaper and traveled extensively with camera gear that cost more than most Toyotas, I never had any trouble with WN. The FAs and pilots went out of their way to make sure my camera bag stayed on the plane. ^
Nov 5, 2012, 4:07 pm
#9
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Media "pre-board" is now after the A group with families.
That being said when I worked at a newspaper and traveled extensively with camera gear that cost more than most Toyotas, I never had any trouble with WN. The FAs and pilots went out of their way to make sure my camera bag stayed on the plane. ^
That being said when I worked at a newspaper and traveled extensively with camera gear that cost more than most Toyotas, I never had any trouble with WN. The FAs and pilots went out of their way to make sure my camera bag stayed on the plane. ^
http://boardingarea.com/blogs/flying...-pre-boarding/
Nov 5, 2012, 5:19 pm
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But yes, it supposedly "changed" according to the WN folks I talked to in TUS. Although a friend of mine took advantage of it a couple weeks ago and went on after the wheelchairs. So it's YMMV.
Nov 5, 2012, 5:42 pm
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This is a scan of the preboard document I made some time back. When I fly again next month I will see if it has changed.
Nov 5, 2012, 8:44 pm
#12
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I don't believe its changed. I've happened to travel a couple times in the past few months with what looked like camera crews and they pre-boarded as usual. A friend who is a cameraman says he's seen no change, although he hasn't flown Southwest since July.