Southwest Airlines Sues Company That Gets You Boarding Passes

Jun 7th, 2006 | By Jared Blank

I have no idea how I have not heard of boardfirst.com until now. For $5 they will check you in for your Southwest Airlines flight and ensure that you get a coveted "A" boarding pass, which allows you to board first. This is absolutely brilliant. So brilliant that Southwest is suing boardfirst.com and a few similar sites. Bummer.

One comment
Leave a comment »

bad job June 7th, 2006 10:23 am :
You’re slipping.

Leave Comment

Fake Boarding Pass Site Shut Down, Owner Surprised

Southwest Airlines: Kids Can’t Board First

Air Canada Launches US Flight Passes

Southwest to Keep Open Seating

Cranky Flier

You Guys Nominated Me for a 2008 Weblog Award - It’s time for the 2008 Weblog Awards, and it appears that I’ve actually been nominated by some of you out there as Best Travel Blog. I’m not sure if you were all drunk or high at the time, but hey, a nomination is a nomination. Thank you. Now it’s time to vote [...]

Upgrade Travel Better

Airplane Xing: Gibraltar’s bizarre runway - Look both ways before crossing the runway! Reader KB pointed me toward the Airport of Gibraltar, which has a road intersecting the airport. I’ve driven under taxiways and runways, but never across one. I believe the plane has the right of way… Space in Gibraltar is at a premium, and tunneling into the [...]

One Mile at a Time

Wow, Cathay Pacific must really be suffering! - We all know Cathay Pacific is suffering in this economy, especially since they rely heavily on premium traffic. I’ve read reports that say their premium traffic is down as much as 25%, which can’t be good. Over the weekend I was doing some planning for my first class OneWorld award to Asia which is coming up in [...]

View from the Wing

Tumi Sale Discount Grows - Through January 31, Tumi’s online clearance got even better, the top of the page now shows an ‘additional’ 30% off sale prices. addthis_url = 'http%3A%2F%2Fboardingarea.com%2Fblogs%2Fviewfromthewing%2F2009%2F01%2F07%2Ftumi-sale-discount-grows%2F'; addthis_title = 'Tumi+Sale+Discount+Grows'; addthis_pub = '';