Just checked in for SW and got our boarding passes!

[Pooh93]

I was #'s 4,5,6,7,8. You don't think I'm a little anxious, do you??

 

[Tjaleks]

Nah, not anxious at all Have a great time.

 

[jimmiej]

Enjoy your trip! Tell Mickey & the gang we'll be there soon!

 

[emmabelle]

We're flying SW in August for the first time, I have a question, does it matter what number you are within the A boarding passes section?

 

[Lorix2]

subscribing

 

[TimNDansMom]

emmabelle - no it doesn't matter what number your boarding pass is as long as it's an A, B or C. You will see the letters overhead of each area where you line up and you just go and stand in the appropriate line. Obviously, the sooner you line up, the closer to the front of that particular line you will be.

 

[codingkw]

Ahhh, you must not have done SW's cattle call before. They round you up in the A,B,C sections. It doesn't matter if you are 1 or 31, the first person in line gets to choose their seat first. But alas, don't forget about the preboarders. When flying to orlando, you can be positive that half of the plane will preboard because southwest allows people flying with children under the age of 5 to preboard. So if you are one of the unfortunate groups that are not traveling with small children, you will not be first to board. Even the preboarders wait in line with no number sequence.

 

[owtrbnks]

Soooo - that's why we got 9 and 10! CUATWDW

 

[AllyBri]

I have a SW question.
If your're travelling with small children and have C boarding passes, do you still get to get on the plane before the people with the As?

 

[codingkw]

If you have C's and have children under 5, you would get in the preboard area. If you have a small group, they will usually let everybody preboard, but if your group is large then they will only let a parent and the small child board. Which then you can pick your seats and save them for the rest of your party that will board in the C group.

 

[goofy4tink]

I'm thinking that being a 'preboarder' who gets to preboard with their child/children, and then saves seats for the rest of the family, isn't quite fair. I saw this when we flew SW last summer. Drove me nuts....3 people in a family would board, then put their coats, bags, whatever they had on all the surrounding seats...sometimes it was to save the seats for family members that didn't get to preboard, or sometimes it was just to get that middle seat to stay empty so they had more room to spread out. Sorry, but grandma and uncle Fred can sit by themselves. I have an A boarding pass, why is it that my dd and I have to come close to being seated apart so your entire family can have a 'family section' on the plane??? I felt really badly for those that were behind us in the A line...they had to split up. But, by the time the B people were boarding the FAs were asking people to 'fill in' the empty seats..no saving.