{"id":30820,"date":"2024-04-25T10:00:12","date_gmt":"2024-04-25T00:00:12","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/simpleflying.com\/southwest-boarding-groups-how-many-explained\/"},"modified":"2024-04-25T10:00:12","modified_gmt":"2024-04-25T00:00:12","slug":"how-many-boarding-groups-does-southwest-have-and-how-to-move-up","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/?p=30820","title":{"rendered":"How Many Boarding Groups Does Southwest Have And How To Move Up"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>            <span data-preserver-spaces=\"true\">Southwest Airlines is best known for its unrestricted seating policies, which allow passengers to occupy pretty much any seat they like upon boarding. Based on the boarding group, passengers are free to select any seat, including emergency exit rows and bulkhead. As such, the boarding group becomes critical in terms of where passengers can actually sit.This article explores the number of boarding groups Southwest Airlines offers and how the airline manages boarding procedures within tight turnaround times, as highlighted by <a href=\"https:\/\/support.southwest.com\/helpcenter\/s\/article\/boarding-process\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\" >Southwest Airlines<\/a>.<\/span>\n    <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>One of the only carriers to still have &#8216;free seat selection,&#8217; and checking in on time is key.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":13,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"om_disable_all_campaigns":false,"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"_uf_show_specific_survey":0,"_uf_disable_surveys":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[396,3530,1091,8337,3717,645],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-30820","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-aircraft","category-boarding","category-loyalty","category-preboarding","category-rapid-rewards","category-southwest-airlines"],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/30820","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/13"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=30820"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/30820\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":30821,"href":"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/30820\/revisions\/30821"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=30820"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=30820"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=30820"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}