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Early Bird Check in boarding pass

loriyarger
Explorer C

My husband and I have early bird check in and I received a notification this morning my boarding position is A38, I went to look at my boarding passes, but both the App and the website but it still shows "check in".  When can I get the boarding passes?  It's been over 2 1/2 hours since I received the notification.

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Re: Early Bird Check in boarding pass

dfwskier
Aviator A

You can get your boarding pass a maximum of 24 hours before the scheduled departure time.

Re: Early Bird Check in boarding pass

loriyarger
Explorer C

Our flight is tomorrow at 6:20am, and I received the notification of boarding position at 6:22am this morning.  Still no boarding passes

Re: Early Bird Check in boarding pass

PDFelter
Frequent Flyer B
Solution

You still need to click the "check in" button to obtain your boarding passes.  

 

Have a fun trip!

Re: Early Bird Check in boarding pass

loriyarger
Explorer C

ok, thanks for your help!

Re: Early Bird Check in boarding pass

jksobonya
Aviator A

This is the #1 confusion with Early Bird - despite automatically receiving a boarding position 36 hours ahead of the flight, you still have to "check in" at the 24 hour mark to receive your boarding pass and save it to your phone / print it / etc. You can check in any time in the 24 hours before your flight, and that's the true benefit, because your boarding position was already assigned to you ahead of everyone else trying to checking in at < 24 hours. 

 

--Jessica