B31 in January??
 

I just checked in for my flights tomorrow and was surprised to see B-31 and B-15! In the middle of January no less. I got A-19 in the middle of December! I’m not to worried about the B-15 but I really hope with B-31 I still get a window seat. It’s a 737-700 I’ll be on both legs.

Are you under the assumption that less people fly SW in January than December?

Note that if your "tomorrow" is Tuesday 1/21, it's potentially a typical early Monday morning flight heavy with business travellers since today is a holiday for a lot of people.

I just assumed less people fly in January overall not just SW. kids back in school and holiday season over, it Is tomorrow 1/21 at 7am so that makes sense for business travelers.

By the way, be sure to mention how you checked in. Is that at T-24 or a few minutes afterward? Or many hours afterward? Or EBCI perhaps....

Agreed. The route likely has a pretty big impact as well.

On the dot right at T-24. Literally holding my finger over the check in to get it right when the clock changed.
my route is TPA-BNA, change planes, BNA-Houston (Hobby)
Houston-LIT.

And I bet thousands of people got C-xx boarding today as well.

That’s true...and I’m thankful I didn’t I’m just very surprised I got this at T-24. That’s never happened, the only time I was farther back (B-54) was when I had a cancelled flight and couldn’t check in at T-24.

Sometimes its hard to predict how a particular flight will stack up. Maybe yours had a bunch of EBCI folks all of whom got numbers ahead of yours.

Interestingly, I get my best T-24 numbers on my 5:30AM flights; ones which I would otherwise assume to be heavy with EBCI purchases (because there are a lot of folks not willing to set their alarm early just to check in at 5:30!). But when I get an A-25 or A-30 it tells me there aren't a lot of EBCIs for that flight.

I get my best on those as well. I think because we are the crazy one willing to get up at 5:30am lol

Did you see this thread? Did you have to click more than once? Reports that WN's time is not synchronized to the official US time anymore...

https://www.flyertalk.com/forum/sout...eck-error.html

That’s just a sign you shouldn’t go to LIT today. Family says it’s cold there

I think you'll still be fine with B31. I had B55 yesterday and B51 today and still got windows. I was a little lazy and a minute behind lol.

Im actually going to visit family. Coming from Florida I’m not crazy about the temperature! Lol

Good to know! Thanks! I’ll sit in the very last row if I have to, I love window seats.