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Check in using mobile app

SuttonDemlong
Explorer C

Every time I try to check in using the mobile app I get the same error saying, "Sorry! We can't check you into this flight. Please see a gate agent." 

 

Does anybody know why this is happening and/or how to fix it?

 

Thank you

 

.Here is a screen shot of the error message.Here is a screen shot of the error message.

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Re: Check in using mobile app

TheMiddleSeat
Aviator A

It would help to have a little more information about your reservation. 

International? Child fare? Purchased through a 3rd party system such as Concur? Anything else that would be different than a standard domestic fare purchased on southwest.com?

 

--TheMiddleSeat

Re: Check in using mobile app

nostresshere
Adventurer C

Another post/question without enough detail.

 

Provide a bit more detail and folks might be able to help.

 

Based on what you have shared so far I would suggest you see a gate agent.

Re: Check in using mobile app

dfwskier
Aviator A

What the other posters are correctly implying is that there are some fares which DO NOT allow a person to check in anyplace except an airport. Senior, international, companion pass all come to mind.

Re: Check in using mobile app

SWDigits
Aviator A

@dfwskier wrote:

companion pass



We've never had a problem with online companion check-in.

Customer | Home airport DCA

Re: Check in using mobile app

chgoflyer
Aviator A

Those traveling on senior fares (no longer available as of Dec. 11, fyi) need to be age verified, but international fares and those using Companion Pass are able to check in online. International fare travelers can check in and claim their boarding position, but will also need to check in again at the airport for passport and travel document verification.

 

That said, be aware that some customers are not eligible for online check-in:

 

Who is eligible to use online check in at Southwest.com and print a boarding pass?

To use online check in at Southwest.com and print your boarding pass, you must:

  • Be age verified if traveling on Senior, Child, or Infant* fares.
  • Check in beginning 24 hours prior to your scheduled departure time.
  • Check in at least one hour prior to your scheduled departure time.
  • Have purchased an eligible fare type (Customers holding reservation for military fares must proceed to the airport check in).

* This only applies to infants traveling on an infant fare. Customers traveling with children under two years old who are traveling as lap children must still present a valid birth certificate for the child and check in with a Customer Service Agent at the airport.

 

Re: Check in using mobile app

hedgeyv
Explorer C

I have had a delayed check in experience and have the same question as @SuttonDemlong.  It would be nice to hear from someone at Southwest about this issue.

 

TL;DR - I hope this is a Southwest "glitch" and that it will resolve itself.  But I'm seeing 5-10 seconds delay after the 24 hour check-in window opens.  Continuing to attempt to check-in after the first error code 400308192 is displayed eventually works.

 

I believe this delay started happening since the beginning of January.

 

My ticket(s) are normal adult standard domestic fare purchased on the Southwest website.

 

I have evidence of this check-in anomoly.   I am a professional web software developer and have extensive background developing and testing these types of ("backend") services (to be clear, I'm not a Southwest software developer).  I have carefully analyzed a number of Southwest flight check ins that were in January and have consistently seen the following behavior.  This was done by capturing the actual network/service requests and responses to Southwest

 

For example, checking into a flight that is scheduled on 1/2/2020 at 8:00 am

 

Early check in before the 24 hour window - 1/1/2020 at 7:59 am:

Error code: 400308191

Message: "Sorry! This reservation is not eligible for check in."

 

Check in at 1/1/2020 at 8:00 am:

Error code: 400308192

Message: "Sorry! We can't check you into this flight. Please see a gate agent."

 

Check in at 1/1/2020 at 8:05 am, again the same message:

Error code: 400308192

Message: "Sorry! We can't check you into this flight. Please see a gate agent."

 

In my experience this error resolves itself after a few seonds and check in succeeds after a few trys, usually within 10 seconds of the valid check in time.  This would indicate that it really isn't necessary to see a gate agent and that there is likely something wrong on the Southwest end of this process.

 

-Hedgey

 

 

 

Re: Check in using mobile app

dfwskier
Aviator A

What happens when you DO NOT check in before the 24 hour window?

 

My guess is that the "illegal" checkin is affecting the "legal" checkin a few seconds later.

Re: Check in using mobile app

NicoleAshley
Employee
Employee

Sorry for the frustration on this! What devices and app versions are you using?

Nicole
Community Manager

Re: Check in using mobile app

hedgeyv
Explorer C

Thank you so much for following up.

 

I have iPhone app 7.1.0.  I have also used the mobile website from a browser with the same result.  https://mobile.southwest.com/check-in