Uh Oh, SW Boarding Number....

[esk]

Took the dog out for a walk this morning and completely forgot about checking in for tomorrow's flight.

Checked in 15 minutes after the 24 hour mark, and ended up with B26-30.

Tried to book 8 tickets on line, to see if the flight was full (not scientific, but best I could figure out) and there were 8 tickets left and a high price. The flights all around mine are sold out.

So....this is an originating flight (6:45 AM).

How bad do you think my boarding position is? We're 4, so we can sit 2x2. And in theory my kids are old enough to sit alone (11, 8) but really don't want to. I'm thinking there should be a few rows left in the back empty?

 

[CarolMN]

Since the flight originates at your airport (plane doesn't come from another airport with passengers continuing on to Orlando), I really don't think you need to worry. You should be able to find at least two groups of 2 seats together, although they will almost certainly be towards the back of the plane.

Of course, the back of the plane gets there at the same time as the front of the plane, so no real worries.

Enjoy your trip!

 

[DVC-Don]

We once boarded a party of four with boarding numbers B46 - B49 and we all sat together.

 

[iluveeyore]

I'm pretty sure it goes up to B60 before the C boarding starts - I'm sure we had B51-55 last year and we were just fine getting seats one in front of the other for four.

 

[sam_gordon]

IF everyone boarding in front of you takes an aisle or window seat, you could be in trouble. There are 23 rows on a SW plane... each row has two windows, two aisles, and two middle seats. That means there are 46 of each type. Which means 92 people would need to board (with no one taking a middle seat) to leave only middle seats.

A1-60, Family Boarding, then B1-25 could (but highly doubtful) leave you boarding as #85-90. The amount of business travelers (A1-15) and family boarders would affect you. Anyone taking middle seas also opens up more window/aisles.

 

[EMAW_KSU]

IF everyone boarding in front of you takes an aisle or window seat, you could be in trouble. There are 23 rows on a SW plane... each row has two windows, two aisles, and two middle seats. That means there are 46 of each type. Which means 92 people would need to board (with no one taking a middle seat) to leave only middle seats.

A1-60, Family Boarding, then B1-25 could (but highly doubtful) leave you boarding as #85-90. The amount of business travelers (A1-15) and family boarders would affect you. Anyone taking middle seas also opens up more window/aisles.

The majority of SW planes have 23 rows but the new 737-800 has 30 rows.

 

[esk]

It went OK. The front half of the plane was all aisle/window seats taken, and we grabbed 2 and 2 about halfway down the plane. Toward the back there were some empty rows but since we'd be split anyway, we grabbed the first ones we saw.

Only issue----SW doesn't have any utensils. We had brought oatmeal, in the cups, for breakfast and ended up having to "drink" it with lots of hot water. Ugh. Must remember spoons next time....