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Previous: Stop the Insanity - Do Not Mail (ground mail) Laws I travel quite often for business, and because SouthWest airlines has a big presence at the nearest airport to me, I often travel on SouthWest. The airline has flights to most locations I travel to and their rates are low, even for one-way trips. That’s a blessing when you have to travel to Baltimore on Monday and then to Houston on Wednesday before returning home on Friday. , Their crews are always friendly and make the flights fun, too.. . On top of that, barring the kind of weather during which you’d expect delays, their flights seem to arrive and leave pretty much on time, with no unexplained cancellations, or cancellations due to equipment failure.. That by, itself, makes them my preferred choice for many of the business trips I take. If you’ve ever traveled on SouthWest airlines, however, you know there’s one slightly unpleasant side to their otherwise great service: You can’t reserve a seat. Instead, when you get your boarding pass you get assigned a letter – A, B, or C. The first people to get their passes get the As.). Then, when it’s time to board the plane, you line up behind signs corresponding to the letter on your boarding pass. The A’s get their choice of any seats on the plane. The B’s get what’s left (if you have a B boarding pass and line up an hour or more before takeoff you might still find an aisle seat and overhead storage space,) C’s get what’s left. SouthWest made it possible to get your boarding pass online a number of years ago, so now, you can print out your boarding pass from home up to 24 hours before the flight. If you go online to retrieve the pass early enough – in otherwords as close to 24 hours in advance as possible - , you’ll get an A boarding pass. But that presents a problem even business travelers who have a 10:15 am flight and are in meetings the day before their flight from 9 am to 3 or 4 pm: By the time they can get to the hotel’s business center to print out a boarding pass, all the A’s are sometimes gone. So here’s the good news. If you have a cell phone or PDA that connects to the Internet you can use your cell phone to get your boarding pass. You go to Southwest’s site, enter your reservation number in the appropriate place, and you see your boarding pass on your cell phone screen. When you get to the airport you can either print it out from a kiosk or get it from the check-in counter. © 2007, Attard Communications, Inc. Comments Technology is spoiling us every year. To initiate tasks will be by thought command very soon. I’m not complaining. It does make life easier, productive and hassle free…sometimes. Yomi Posted by: Yomi on May 30, 2007 at 7:54 PM I never knew that about Southwest Airlines. But I do like that mobile integration. It really shows the changing of the times. Posted by: Fred333 on September 18, 2007 at 1:03 PM I think this a faboulous idea. I wonder if this will work in Israel 972 access code etc. on other airlines in Israel? Posted by: Malka Shavit on September 24, 2007 at 3:53 PM We’ll see the integration of mobile technologies and travel more and more in the future so i agree and think its best to embrace it, it may make us lazy but things are so much easier. Posted by: zac on October 29, 2008 at 9:08 AM |
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Get an Airline Boarding Pass from Your Cell Phone
As a small business owner, this airline is one of my favorites. First come, first serve is how it should be. No more paying insane amounts to “keep up with the Jones’”
Posted by: Dan on May 5, 2007 at 7:04 AM