Southwest Airlines Community

"only sell earlybird for the A boarding position. There is no way to do that because there is no way to know how many A-Listers will grab A spots until 36 hours before the flight. You could have A50-A60 available and then 10 A Listers buy tickets and grab them.   EBCI only guarantees 2 things: 1) you don't need to worry about checking in at t-24 hours 2) You will get a better boarding position than everyone that checks in manually.   That's it. ... View more

@eosphorus wrote: Or since they are charging people to give them an early bird they could pay a decent dev to write code to not make that seat available and instead assign it to the earliest person that bought an early bird and then keep following that algorithm till no early birds are left. Most other airlines do something similar. From a guy that was a dev in an airline  Former dev but not a former Southwest passenger? The seats aren't assigned on Southwest.         ... View more