No guarantees, but there is a strong probability it will be fine. My daughter and I often travel together, always purchase EBCI, and we have always been able to sit together and usually toward the front/middle of the plane, which is my preference.
I wouldn't be nervous. As a regular flyer on SW to MCO and I never buy EBCI, I have always sat with my family (3+1 or 2 and 2; and 2 and 2 was our last flight with boarding groups B58-C1. We had just decided to take the first groups of 2. I could see that there were still a few empty rows in the back)
Don't be. With EBCI, especially purchased this far ahead I would guess you'll have mid B, plenty of spots for two together. Usually it's only when it's one adult with two small kids is there an issue.
We travel to MCO a lot. It’s supposed to be 2 up to adults with children 6 and under. On many occasions I have overheard families assigning one of their children under 6 child to grandma and grandpa and another to aunt and uncle and they board with one of the children. Another way is flyers scam the Southwest system to avoid paying for early bird.
Like others have said, you really should be fine. My family and I flew from Baltimore to Denver this past summer and both ways, even with EBCI, we had mid Bs. I was nervous we’d be all over the plane, but both ways my boys and I got to sit together with DH across from us on the way there and two rows in front of us on the way home. There were plenty of two seats together that we could have sat in but we headed to the back where we could get a whole row.
I'm trying to think of what seating situation you're describing that happened but I'm not getting it
Open middle one side…open aisle on the opposite. I asked the person in the window and aisle if they would swap for my aisle. They wouldn’t so I sat my child down in the middle seat and I took the aisle. I suspect they were together and were trying to keep someone from sitting in the middle.
I was sitting at the gate one time and they called for family boarding near a family with kids that looked 9 or 10. The wife is getting nervous because they have C numbers, she said I should have got online sooner. The dad jumps up and says we're a family. Grandma says 6 or under, he said let's go. And they boarded. You paid for EBCI, I wouldn't hesitate to get in the family boarding line if you got a high number.
thanks for the reminder! they seem to release pretty far behind other carrier's schedules, anyone know if that's normal? we're looking at flying SWA in December for the first time and other carriers have had their schedules out for more than 1.5 months (and have been going up in price since!
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It is normal for SW especially since the pandemic though I think it started earlier than that due to the issues with new planes.thanks for the reminder! they seem to release pretty far behind other carrier's schedules, anyone know if that's normal? we're looking at flying SWA in December for the first time and other carriers have had their schedules out for more than 1.5 months (and have been going up in price since!
SW has never released schedules 11 months out like the legacies have. It had been about 6 months, now we are seeing 8.thanks for the reminder! they seem to release pretty far behind other carrier's schedules, anyone know if that's normal? we're looking at flying SWA in December for the first time and other carriers have had their schedules out for more than 1.5 months (and have been going up in price since!
SWA has usually been a carrier (even before the pandemic) to only release about 5-6 months in advance, sometimes less sometimes more.thanks for the reminder! they seem to release pretty far behind other carrier's schedules, anyone know if that's normal? we're looking at flying SWA in December for the first time and other carriers have had their schedules out for more than 1.5 months (and have been going up in price since!
