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How To Get The Best Boarding Position On Southwest. Hint: It’s Not Early Bird

Southwest has one of the easiest boarding systems to understand. You line up based on the number on your boarding pass. There are three groups, A, B and C, with passengers numbered 1-60 in each letter group. There’s no assigned seating. When you board, you can pick any available seat. Thus the advantage of getting the lowest boarding group and the lowest number in that group possible.

If you get lucky enough to have a low number, you may be able to snag this seat on a Southwest plane.

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So while there are no assigned seats, Southwest has come up with a number of ways to sell preferred access to the lower boarding numbers.

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What To Do If You Forget To Buy EarlyBird Check-In When You Purchase Southwest Tickets

I just realized that I forgot to purchase the EarlyBird check-in for our next set of Southwest flights, which are only a few weeks away.

I can already hear Sharon mocking me as she reads this post. (Note from Sharon: Who, ME??? Never. Well, at least not in front of all these people…)

We normally purchase the EarlyBird option when flying Southwest so that we get an early boarding position. The earlier you get to board a Southwest plane, you’re more likely to get your choice of seats as well as increased access to the overhead bins. Your place in line with EarlyBird is determined by how far in advance you make your purchase. Not when you purchase the tickets, mind you, but by when you purchase EarlyBird.

Since I’m an obsessive planner and book flights as soon as I can, we usually can get a boarding spot in the middle to end of the A boarding group. This is crucial when flying from Orlando since Family Boarding takes place between the A and B groups and in Orlando that might as well be an announcement saying “Anyone except Joe and Sharon, please board now.”

Waiting until the last minute to buy EarlyBird, everyone who already purchased it will get places ahead of us in line but we’ll still have to pay the same price.

So what are my options?

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Earning An Easy 10,000 Points, Disney Grand Opening At MCO, SouthWest Is Matching Status Again, & More…

Happy Sunday to all of our travel friends, both near and far! Here are some articles we’ve read from other bloggers (and other sources) that we think you may like, as well, so we’re passing them along.

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