Originally Posted by
sdsearch
But I think the show should have explained what the cutoff time is. The problem is that some people still think that the cutoff time is 3 minutes, because that's what the previous (A&E "Airline") show kept repeating! But since the original A&E "Airline" show aired, Southwest changed it from 3 minutes to 10 minutes!
I don't recall that it was EVER anything other than 10 minutes. I once boarded at T-2 minutes right before they deleted my BP and gave it to a standby, but that was dumb luck.