Comments on: Friday Funny: Southwest Hates People

By: Jonathan

Jonathan — Wed, 11 Apr 2007 01:44:08 +0000

Several sites (free and paid) offer 24 hour mark boarding passes on Southwest. Besides boardfirst, checkinsooner.com offers the service.

By: Veddy Interesting « ==================== adam jusko’s bessed blog

Veddy Interesting « ==================== adam jusko’s bessed blog — Mon, 06 Nov 2006 21:54:51 +0000

[...] For as great as Southwest can be, do they need to be so obvious about ranking passengers based on their punctuality? [...]

By: Jason H.

Jason H. — Sun, 05 Nov 2006 07:37:42 +0000

How about this– instead of using ABC, they should use Blue , Orange, and Red Line (the SW colors)

By: Ben Casnocha

Ben Casnocha — Sun, 05 Nov 2006 04:28:55 +0000

There’s a service (can’t remember the name) that lets you pay a small fee and they’ll automatically check you into Southwest at 12:01 AM to ensure A boarding pass.

By: saving advice

saving advice — Sat, 04 Nov 2006 21:25:20 +0000

I don’t see it being near as much of a big deal as before just because people are bringing less carry-on luggage onto flights. When every single person was bringing on 2 bags and over head space was at a premium, getting on the plane late sucked.

By: Jason H.

Jason H. — Sat, 04 Nov 2006 20:48:27 +0000

Instead of using the boring A,B,C, maybe they should use some Italian or some other language. Like what Starbucks does- Venti, Grande, and Tall… whoever came up with the strategy of calling Small cup Tall must be a Purple Cow

By: Noah N. Glass

Noah N. Glass — Sat, 04 Nov 2006 16:48:32 +0000

Noah, really? Grade inflation for boarding groups? Isn’t the problem really just that letters (and numbers, for that matter) both have ill-fitting associations with grade/rank? Shouldn’t Southwest be using something like colors instead (easy for them to know which color is first, without making customers feel like losers)? Or are they trying to incentivize the early-comers to feel good about themselves, seeing more value in praising them and turning them into role models than harm in scarlet-letting the delinquents?
Aren’t rhetorical questions the best?

Lines and waiting suck. If Southwest used a modified version of gomobo.com, this whole problem would be solved. You enter your mobile number during check-in, we text you when you can get on the plane…

By: Sri

Sri — Sat, 04 Nov 2006 02:07:45 +0000

I checked out boardfirst.com, what intrigues me is that if you have the time to log in and use the services of boardfirst 48 hours prior to your southwest flight, why dont u have the time to log in to southwest airlines website and get your boarding pass?

boardfirst.com seems to do what you can pretty much do yourself.

By: Sri

Sri — Fri, 03 Nov 2006 23:56:08 +0000

I have a 15 month old kid so for the last 15 months, I have been flying SUPER-DUPER A.

So if you like the superior feeling and always want to be front of the herd, just have a kid!

By: Joe Suh

Joe Suh — Fri, 03 Nov 2006 23:39:13 +0000

This post belongs in the C line…