how do you know where a flight originates from?

[sazzifrazz]

Im flying SW. Is there a way to see where that flight originates from, if not the city I am departing from?

 

[OKW Lover]

It somewhat depends on the airport, but what I usually do is to go to the airport's web site and check their list of arriving flights. Look for a flight arriving about an 30-60 minutes before your departure time and check the gate its supposed to arrive at. When you find the one that's using the same gate your flight is departing from, you've got it.

 

[sazzifrazz]

I can't do that until the day of right?
The reason I ask is because im trying to see if there will be people on our plane already. Its a SW flight and Im freaking out we won't get to sit together.

 

[OKW Lover]

Where are you flying from?

 

[sazzifrazz]

tf green in Providence RI to orlando
january 30th 4:55 pm

 

[OKW Lover]

I suspect that your flight originates at PVD since its not likely that a flight from one of their other airports that was heading to MCO would make a detour through PVD.

 

[dudspizza]

I typically start to monitor my flights a month or so in advance by checking the flight number. There are times that the flight number does not change, which makes it easy to know where it originates from... otherwise, using what a PP said is sound advice. Many times it is tough to figure it all out.

An example would be a Sun Country flight I had a couple of years ago to MCO. It was the first flight in the AM. BUT, the plane was delayed due to bad weather because it was the RED EYE from the west coast (SEA-MSP). So our plane did come from another destination. Sometimes you just don't know.

Duds

 

[CarrieR]

No need to freak out. Just be diligent about checking in AT 24 hours, and you'll be fine.

I was recently on a flight that included something like 56 through passengers -- a lot, in my experience. Even after they offloaded the terminating passengers, and the through passengers did the seat-shuffle, there were plenty of rows available. (Think about it this way. If there are 23 rows on the aircraft, that makes 46 "half-rows" of three seats. Even with 56 through passengers, and even if every SINGLE half-row had a passenger in it, (unlikely, as many of those 56 were families or groups, and therefore grouping together,) 30 of the half-rows would still have two seats available together.)

How many are in your party?

ETA: My best guess, looking at the timetable, is that that flight comes from BWI (Baltimore.) There's no published BWI-PVD-MCO connection on the SW site; someone might be able to force one but I have no idea why they would do that when they could take a n/s flight in half the time. There are 9 n/s flights from BWI-MCO that day. Excepting a very odd hiccup, and presuming my BWI deduction is correct, there will be no through passengers on that flight.

FWIW, the flight continues on to FLL (Ft Lauderdale) after MCO.

Hope that helps.

 

[Vijoge]

I can't do that until the day of right?
The reason I ask is because im trying to see if there will be people on our plane already. Its a SW flight and Im freaking out we won't get to sit together.

As I said on the other thread-there is no need to freak out. The airline won't separate you and the two y/o and as there are only three seats together all four of you won't be able to sit next to each other anyway. Don't waste valuable energy worrying about something that's not going to happen. Enjoy your trip!

 

[sazzifrazz]

thanks everyone! I am going to try to stop worrying about this....onto some other worry of the day now lol

 

[Bobo912]

If you go to the Southwest website and select Travel Tools and select the "Schedules" link you can see the schedule for all SW flights. Scroll down to the bottom of the page to the section that says "Download Schedule" and select your city. You'll get a PDF file and you can search for your flight number within the file and see where it orginates Here's the link directly to the schedules page: http://www.southwest.com/cgi-bin/requestSchedule
I don't think you have anything to worry about though.