In October 2009, I bought a round trip ticket on Southwest Airlines and was given confirmation # NHR26T. I was to fly from Chicago to New Orleans on 1/7/10 and return 1/10/10. On January 6, I paid $20 ($10 per flight) for early bird check in. According to SWA's website, early bird check in would automatically check me in 36 hours before the flight, "12 hours before general boarding positions become available". This seemed like a good deal, because I would not be able to log into the Southwest Airlines website while in New... read full review »