Southwest Early Bird Checkin

[wdwstar]

purchased the EBCI for DD about 5 days before depature and DD got A24. not to bad. I wonder what i would have got if i just checked DD in 24 hours prior.

 

[Lewisc]

purchased the EBCI for DD about 5 days before depature and DD got A24. not to bad. I wonder what i would have got if i just checked DD in 24 hours prior.

Probably A26 , unless your flight had a lot of connecting passengers.

 

[miprender]

OK...we are leaving Saturday and I can check-in T24 on Friday and hve purchased EBCI for our return so I don't have to worry about it at Disney. I don't understand how I checkin my whole family on Friday. We have one conf # for the 4 of us. Will I need to enter it 4 times or does one checkin serve for all? I see others saying different members of their parties have different bp #'s. Is that because they have different conf #'s??
Thanks

Like the other person posted you would enter the confirm number and click on all. However, when we flew down in April we had one confirm number and our BPs were all over the place but still in the A's. I had to check in 7 people but they were not in order, but still pretty close that we still were able to board together.

 

[TDC Nala]

I did not and will not use EBCI (I absolutely refuse) and achieved A-30 on October 29. This is with T-24 check-in.

In my opinion mass seat-saving is wrong (don't really care if a party saves a seat for one party member in a different boarding group or something) and SWA should not permit it.

 

[magicmommy]

Purchased EBCI on the first day it was available for DH and I MHT to MCO 10/18 A16 and A17. MCO to MHT 11/1 A17 and A18. FYI....No business select passengers on the flught home and the attendant announced they would start boarding A1-30 in NUMERICAL order. A30 and her child tried to board before the gentelman in front of us who was A16 and the attendant told her she needed to get to the end of the line!! I thanked him on my way in.

 

[Tara]

Just printed my boarding passes for tomorrow. (Purchased my ticket on 8/29 and added ECBI the day it came out on 9/2.) I got A19-A20-A21 out of ALB and A18-A19-A20 out of BWI.

I purchased my sister's family's airfare on 9/15 and added EBCI at the same time. They got A25-A26-A27.

 

[HelenParr]

Sharing more data points: just checked in for Hartford to Orlando for tomorrow morning. Two of us with separate reservation numbers. Experimented on EBCI for one, but not for the other.

EBCI: A18.
Non-EBCI: A52 (at precisely 24H mark).

Experiment successful -- should have ECBI's both! We usually bth have As under 25 (since we're always at our desks for 24H check-in, with computer handy).

Did same experiment for return. Probably not worth buying other person EBCI for return flight at this point, guessing already tons of EBCIs in the queue.

(Now I must further ponder on the morality of seat saving.)

 

[twinklebug]

Wow! That speaks volumes in favor of EBCI to me. I would have thought Hartford would have had lower numbers on T-24 for a Friday morning departure.

Thanks for the report Helen. Have a great trip!

 

[LocustPoint]

Just printed boarding passes for my BWI-MCO flight tomorrow. Purchased EBCI on day it was announced since I wasn't sure where I would be at T24 and got A25 & A26.

 

[Tara]

Just printed boarding passes for my BWI-MCO flight tomorrow. Purchased EBCI on day it was announced since I wasn't sure where I would be at T24 and got A25 & A26.

Which flight are you on? We got A18-20 on #2089, so maybe we'll see you in line!

 

[LocustPoint]

Which flight are you on? We got A18-20 on #2089, so maybe we'll see you in line!

Flight #221 leaving at 6:25PM so won't see you in line.

 

[svioli]

Just checked in for OMA to ORD, purchased EBC in September.

Leg 1 - A 18 to A22
Leg 2 - A 16 to A20

Well worth the money in my opinion!

We'll see you in Disney tomorrow!!!!

 

[Candlelady]

Checked in this morning for our 4:40pm flight, MCO to Hartford. Received A17 & A18. Purchased ECBI a few days after it was announced.
Was great not stressing about checking in, instead we were sipping Grey Goose Slushies in France!

Candlelady

 

[agnes!]

Got back from MCO on November 3rd and our party of three had A21(A-lister), A24 & A25. Yeah, I think paying for the EBCI service is kind of a crock but it was nice not to have to check in at T-24.

agnes!

 

[Nermel9]

I have a dumb question for anyone who has used EBCI...how do you get your boarding passes? I will be flying out of Hartford to Orlando on 11/14 and I purchased the EBCI pretty close to when it came out a few months ago...but I don't know when, or how, I can check my boarding passes and what boarding group I got. If someone can let me know what to do, and when, I'd appreciate it! Thanks!

 

[agnes!]

I have a dumb question for anyone who has used EBCI...how do you get your boarding passes? I will be flying out of Hartford to Orlando on 11/14 and I purchased the EBCI pretty close to when it came out a few months ago...but I don't know when, or how, I can check my boarding passes and what boarding group I got. If someone can let me know what to do, and when, I'd appreciate it! Thanks!

Just go on to the SW website as always. Put your Confirmation number into the website + your last name and it comes up just like always. You will be able to get your boarding passes any time from the 24 hour mark and afterwards. You don't have to print it out exactly at T-24, anytime before departure will work.

agnes!

 

[Nermel9]

Thanks! That seems easy enough!!

 

[TDC Nala]

You can also print your passes at the airport, if you don't have access to a computer or printer on your return trip. Either have them printed when you check your luggage or use a self-service kiosk.

 

[TDC Nala]

Check-in one minute ago at T-24 with no EBCI: A-32 IAD-Chicago, A-39 Chicago-Las Vegas.

 

[disneydarling07]

I TOTALLY dropped the ball and forgot to log in to get my board passes. We leave at 6am tomorrow. But we have 2yo...do they still do the boarding for families with small children in between Group A and B?