@DJ_Ran wrote:
Came across this article about Southwest limiting the number of early bird check-ins on select flights. Is this true and has anyone experienced it?
https://thepointsguy.com/news/southwest-changes-early-bird-wifi-standby/
It's true!
Personally I'm A-list so I haven't experienced it. You can find some previous discussion on this community about EBCI though and I think a lot of people think it makes sense to have some formula that limits the sales in cases where there are many people who already purchased it - in a theoretical scenario where everyone on a flight bought it, the last person would be checked in, but not getting a very good position (which is suggested but not promised) it would make sense to cut it off in some cases.
It isn't clear if they might eliminate it entirely from some routes whether to push people to buy the higher fare class or else because it is saturated with A-list customers and the EBCI would be getting late B's and C's.
Home airport MDW, frequent visitor to MCO to see the mouse.
