Southwest Airlines early boarding now sold at the gate

Dennis Schaal

January 21st, 2013 at 10:41 AM EST

Photo Credit: You can now pay to board early, but luckily this little person won't. Flickr.com / Lars Plougmann

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Bags Fly Free on Southwest, but everything else, including your place in the boarding line, is now up for sale.

Southwest Airlines already offered a couple of different early boarding options, but today it added another as the airline began selling A boarding group -- the first group boarding -- positions at the gate for $40 per flight. Skift reported more than a month ago that Southwest intended to add this new boarding option, which it tested in San Diego in December.

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