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[eticketplease]

When will you be able to book flights for June 2026?

Nobody knows.

On July 29th they open up their schedule to book through March 4th. On that day we will know when the next release will be and how long it will go through. I don’t think the next release will have June though. My bet is that it is just Spring Break and Easter flights but they may extend it to Memorial Day

 

[Mackenzie Click-Mickelson]

Nobody knows.

On July 29th they open up their schedule to book through March 4th. On that day we will know when the next release will be and how long it will go through. I don’t think the next release will have June though. My bet is that it is just Spring Break and Easter flights but they may extend it to Memorial Day

Agreed, at least going by the past normally around Spring Break time (march-april) it's pretty incremental in dates covered through each release.

 

[Simba's Mom]

They tell you the benefits of being A-list and A-list preferred, but they don't tell you how you get to be A-list or A-list preferred. Does someone here know?

 

[EACarlson]

They tell you the benefits of being A-list and A-list preferred, but they don't tell you how you get to be A-list or A-list preferred. Does someone here know?

https://www.southwest.com/rapid-rewards/tiers/?clk=GSUBNAV-RR-TIER
Scroll down about 1/3 of the way and they spell it out.

 

[HokieRaven5]

They tell you the benefits of being A-list and A-list preferred, but they don't tell you how you get to be A-list or A-list preferred. Does someone here know?

A-List is take 20 flights or earn 35,000 points from flights/credit card tier qualifying point bonus.

A-List Preferred 40 flights or 70,000 from flight points or tier qualifying bonus.

At this time all Southwest credit cards will earn 1,500 tier qualifying bonus points for every $5000 in purchases.

Coming later this year the Priority Card and Performance Business Card will earn 2,500 tier qualifying points per $5000

The tier qualifying bonus points only apply towards A-List/A-List preferred status.

 

[LoveToDisney]

That's how I read the chart. Expect a pretty good AF increase on that Priority card next year.

Yes. I was sent a lengthy questionnaire regarding changes to the credit cards, annual fees and what you get with each type. Although I can’t give details, they were trying to find out how high they could make the fee based on the perceived value of what you got. I can’t believe that the fees will not increase dramatically.

 

[Jfsag123]

Got our boarding positions for our flight tomorrow. We had EBCI, wanna get away (now basic) fare, got high As which is fine. The problem is, we weren't given sequential numbers. We are a family of 5 and they alternated us and put 3 people in the middle of our family (i.e. family member, stranger, family member, stranger, family member, stranger). They have my 4 year old standing between two strangers with his boarding position. I've never had this happen before. We will figure it out, but it struck me as odd.

 

[Craig Larson]

Got our boarding positions for our flight tomorrow. We had EBCI, wanna get away (now basic) fare, got high As which is fine. The problem is, we weren't given sequential numbers. We are a family of 5 and they alternated us and put 3 people in the middle of our family (i.e. family member, stranger, family member, stranger, family member, stranger). They have my 4 year old standing between two strangers with his boarding position. I've never had this happen before. We will figure it out, but it struck me as odd.

Not sure why that would have happened, but regardless, it doesn't matter. Each group "stands" with a group of 5. Ie, positions 16-20, 21-25. You don't stand in exact numerical order. Just have all 5 of you stand together in either groups position.

 

[Mackenzie Click-Mickelson]

You don't stand in exact numerical order. Just have all 5 of you stand together in either groups position.

Yes you do stand in the exact order. Some people don't care but even the gate agents will tell you this. This is how it works presently with SWA. Now with the PP having young children I doubt anyone is going to say anything but the normal process is yes you stand in exact numerical order and IME almost everyone ensures others around them are doing so.

 

[Mackenzie Click-Mickelson]

Got our boarding positions for our flight tomorrow. We had EBCI, wanna get away (now basic) fare, got high As which is fine. The problem is, we weren't given sequential numbers. We are a family of 5 and they alternated us and put 3 people in the middle of our family (i.e. family member, stranger, family member, stranger, family member, stranger). They have my 4 year old standing between two strangers with his boarding position. I've never had this happen before. We will figure it out, but it struck me as odd.

Are you all on the same exact reservation AND purchased EBCI at the same time for everyone? Usually that's the issue is the either EBCI was purchased separately at different times or not everyone is on the same reservation.

 

[Jfsag123]

Are you all on the same exact reservation AND purchased EBCI at the same time for everyone? Usually that's the issue is the either EBCI was purchased separately at different times or not everyone is on the same reservation.

Yep, exact same reservation, EBCI all bought at the same time. And we always stand in the exact order of our boarding numbers, but even if we didn't, breaking up our family of 5 with 3 alternating randos means we are spread out between 2 different sections of 5.

 

[pooch]

Everyone stand together with the highest number. This has happened to me a few times, I have A-45, daughter has A-49. We both stand at A-49. And yes, you do stand in numerical order. Not sure why anyone would think differently.

 

[Mackenzie Click-Mickelson]

Yep, exact same reservation, EBCI all bought at the same time. And we always stand in the exact order of our boarding numbers, but even if we didn't, breaking up our family of 5 with 3 alternating randos means we are spread out between 2 different sections of 5.

I'd like to say there's an exact answer for that but it is a strange one IMO I'd say moreso because of how many people were affected, usually when someone posts that they had non-sequential ones it's like one person in between then something like that.

 

[Jfsag123]

I'd like to say there's an exact answer for that but it is a strange one IMO I'd say moreso because of how many people were affected, usually when someone posts that they had non-sequential ones it's like one person in between then something like that.

Yeah, that's mostly why I was posting, just to see if this was as weird as I thought it was. We only fly once a year, occasionally twice, so we're not super regular. However, when we do it's always Southwest, as we're in Dallas, so like being able to use the smaller airport. Never experienced this before. I also wanted to make other people aware of the possibility of it happening.

 

[Craig Larson]

I guess I stand corrected. I'll be honest, I just stood in my "group of 5". Never checked or had anyone check if they were 1 spot in front or back of me. I've had positions across two number ranges and would stand towards the back for one and the other would stand in the front of the second group keeping us together and never had anyone say otherwise. Definitely didn't do it to with any ill intention and I definitely wasn't trying to insinuate someone with position 60 try to stand with 50.

 

[Jfsag123]

I guess I stand corrected. I'll be honest, I just stood in my "group of 5". Never checked or had anyone check if they were 1 spot in front or back of me. I've had positions across two number ranges and would stand towards the back for one and the other would stand in the front of the second group keeping us together and never had anyone say otherwise. Definitely didn't do it to with any ill intention and I definitely wasn't trying to insinuate someone with position 60 try to stand with 50.

I would strongly prefer to just do this this time. We won't, but it would for sure make things easier. Making sure we're in the exact correct position is often a little tedious, but we always do it. Will be more tedious this time, but it is what it is. Excited to get our trip started regardless!

 

[Mackenzie Click-Mickelson]

I guess I stand corrected. I'll be honest, I just stood in my "group of 5". Never checked or had anyone check if they were 1 spot in front or back of me. I've had positions across two number ranges and would stand towards the back for one and the other would stand in the front of the second group keeping us together and never had anyone say otherwise. Definitely didn't do it to with any ill intention and I definitely wasn't trying to insinuate someone with position 60 try to stand with 50.

The official process is that you stand in the sequential order (numerical is the wording on SWA's webpage)



Whether passengers ask or not is just more dependent on those passengers but for my personal experience people do general find a way to ensure they are in order whether that's outright asking or peeking at a boarding pass, sometimes people don't care if you're one or two spots off but normally with the person waving you on so it's not like you're doing it because you're trying to get ahead of them, sometimes people don't care because they don't care. Realistically it's not as if the spots between them actually allow for people to always be fully within the area of the numbers listed on the pylons but yes it is intended as a process for people to be in the order of their boarding position. I don't think you were trying to insinuate something though just that you were going off what you thought was how it was done. I'm sure at some airports there's less caring than others and it's what people get used to.

 

[eticketplease]

Yep, exact same reservation, EBCI all bought at the same time. And we always stand in the exact order of our boarding numbers, but even if we didn't, breaking up our family of 5 with 3 alternating randos means we are spread out between 2 different sections of 5.

We have had this happen several times with our party of 4 spread out with anytime tickets on the same reservation.

We were like 1-2 numbers off like you. We just explained it to the people directly behind us and they said it was ok for us to have the 2 people move in front of them to board together.