No. My experience with Business Select tickets has always been that the CP needs to check in separately. The CP ticket doesn’t get any of the benefits of the attached ticket.
Business Select is different and SWA explicitly calls this out in various components of their website such as A-list, Companion, and more. With Business Select you're paying specifically for A1-A15 boarding positions.
Prior to SWA extending A-list benefits to people on the reservation you did have to purchase it separately for the Companion Pass member since they were given a different confirmation number. But these days all I could find on SWA's website with Companion Pass was about A-listers saying "If you purchased a Wanna Get Away®, Wanna Get Away Plus or an Anytime fare and either you or your Companion is an A-List or A-List Preferred Member, you will both receive reserved boarding positions." but that's using the status of A-list to check you in automatically.
. Although the captain did announce that the flight for those continuing to Aruba would be held for them other passengers with connections were simply told to check boards when they got off planes and go directly to their gates without making any stops. The lack of communication was frustrating during this entire experience. Missed our reservation at Homecoming but they were very accommodating and were not charged penalty fees. I am still wondering why the issue with plane was not discovered before passengers were boarded in first place.
It's likely either they were boarding the plane while completing the last of the check items on the punch list for being cleared for flying or it was working but then failed. Either way it sucks. I wonder if the woman having the panic attack delayed things a bit as well, getting a passenger calmed down first is a big priority these days with not knowing how people are behaving.
Holding a plane is not super common, it does happen, but holding planes throws the entire schedule off so they have to be careful when they do it. It's easier to hold the plane for the last flight of the day especially if the plane is needed in that other airport for the next day.
Fortunately they were able to get a plane that quick and in relative speaking it was quick. Unfortunately they are going to have to take whichever gate is available. I hate having to rush real fast to make it to the other gate. Vegas is another hard connection point for that with B and C terminal.
it certainly was out of your control
There is no law in the US requiring them to compensate passengers for any delay. It sounds like it was 135 minutes, you can write in to SW, maybe they'll throw some travel credit your way. For comparison I got $300 for an overnight delay from SW, $75 from AA for overnight and $37.50 from United for a delay over 8 hours.
Which has absolutely no bearing on the incident that happened. That only matters if you don't take the flight. Once you take the flight, there is no refund. Also, not a law, a DOT Rule.
Our last flight from MCO to Baltimore was delayed for a bit of time. Something to do with a storm in the area. There where 26 or so of us on this flight with the same connection flight to CLE. They held the plane for us. We did lose our A1 and A2 boarding spot and got the last 2 seats together (only because we were the first off the plane and made it from the last gate on one side to the last gate on the other before anyone else). Since we bought business select and were not able to board when we should have we were awarded some travel credits.
Yup they do hold the plane as I said it's just not super common as in passengers should be expecting it as a norm. I appreciate it when they can hold the plane which sometimes they are doing it so connecting passengers can get their luggage put on that plane if the prior flight was late but of course when you're waiting for those passengers or the luggage it can make those on the plane grumpy.
same. i need to book flights to cancun for my niece's wedding. hoping for a "decent" price
Yes and no. It's a different Airside, but the same security checkpoint. When you get through security, for SW you go to the APM on the left, for Gate 85 you'd go to the APM on the right, that is usually used for Delta and Air Canada. If this is a late afternoon or evening flight, I would expect it to change to one of the normal gates between now and then. I haven't heard of SW using gates at the other Airside and I'm pretty sure something would have been said.
I didn't get any points for it since I used points to book it. The flight attendant on the first leg told me to ask so I did. I wasn't expecting anything. It wasn't a lot of travel funds but it was something.
