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International Flight Check In Time Problem

bustar
Explorer C

Flight to Aruba from PVD through BWI scheduled for PVD Early Bird departure at 5:55 AM.  SWA international check in policy says: "If you arrive at the ticket counter with 60 minutes or less time remaining until your flight’s scheduled departure time, we will be unable to accommodate you on your scheduled flight."  My understanding is that PVD counter doesn't open until 5:00 AM on Thursday.  Will this be a problem?

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Re: International Flight Check In Time Problem

dfwskier
Aviator A

That's a good question -- one that would be best answered by customer service.

 

I'd suggest an e-mail. Details on how to send on are at the top left side of the contact us web page

 

https://www.southwest.com/contact-us/contact-us.html?clk=GFOOTER-CUSTOMER-CONTACT-US

Re: International Flight Check In Time Problem

DancingDavidE
Aviator A
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@bustar wrote:

Flight to Aruba from PVD through BWI scheduled for PVD Early Bird departure at 5:55 AM.  SWA international check in policy says: "If you arrive at the ticket counter with 60 minutes or less time remaining until your flight’s scheduled departure time, we will be unable to accommodate you on your scheduled flight."  My understanding is that PVD counter doesn't open until 5:00 AM on Thursday.  Will this be a problem?


I'm pretty sure you would be fine, they wouldn't sell a non-conforming set of connections.

 

I think the issue would be at least an hour at the connection point that goes to Aruba, for instance if you were starting your journey at BWI and the next stop was Aruba.

 

 

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Re: International Flight Check In Time Problem

TheMiddleSeat
Aviator A
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If you go to https://www.southwest.com/html/air/airportinformation.html you'll see check-in at PVD opens 90 minutes before the first departing flight of the day.

 

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Re: International Flight Check In Time Problem

bustar
Explorer C

Thank you.

Link failed, but gave me enough to find it only needed a hyphen betwen "airport" and "information."  

Re: International Flight Check In Time Problem

DancingDavidE
Aviator A

@TheMiddleSeat wrote:

If you go to https://www.southwest.com/html/air/airportinformation.html you'll see check-in at PVD opens 90 minutes before the first departing flight of the day.

 

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I was curious about this as well, it's pretty standard that any guide you read says to show up at least an hour early and often two hours early, so it would be surprising for the counters not to be open more than an hour ahead of the flight time.

 

 

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