After watching the video, I believe it is a better system. However, there may be unintended consequences in the boarding process as a result of how the system retrieves your boarding pass 24 hours before your flight. With a lot of people trying to log in to get their prime "A" boarding pass position exactly at the 24 hour mark, there is a good probability that if a couple has two different reservation numbers (because they are using a single rapid reward for two one-way flights), by the time the second reservation is logged in there will be non-consecutive positions possibly by more than 5 people. So, the question is how does a couple who wants to sit together line up if they do not have consecutive numbers due to the Southwest policy of splitting up their rapid reward reservation. By the way, that is the situation we will be facing in a six hour flight in January from Islip to Las Vegas.
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