The Southwest® app allows you to easily book a flight, hotel, car, cruise, or vacation. Quickly secure your next trip, check in, change or cancel flights, and add extras like EarlyBird Check-In® or Upgraded Boarding. The Southwest app helps you access your gate information, boarding position, flight status, and more from the “My Trips” tab. Travel seamlessly from reserving a hotel to booking last-minute flights.
Book your next flight or hotel when you download the Southwest app.
SOUTHWEST APP FEATURES:
PERSONAL TRAVEL AGENT—BOOK A FLIGHT AND SECURE A HOTEL - Travel with ease as you search, book, and manage your flight in one place - View your gate information, boarding position, flight status, and more in the “My Trips” tab - The Southwest app is like your own personal travel agent. Book a hotel and manage reservations in just a few taps - Redeem your Rapid Rewards® points1 for your hotel stays
BOARDING PASS ON THE GO - Access mobile boarding passes for all Passengers on your trip 24 hours prior to your flight’s scheduled departure time - Find your flight number, confirmation number, boarding time, tier status, and TSA PreCheck® details in one place - Save your mobile boarding passes to Google Wallet for convenience as you use our traveling app
MORE WAYS TO PAY FOR YOUR FLIGHT - Choose from multiple payment methods, including PayPal®, Flex Pay, credit/debit cards, and Southwest LUV Vouchers® - Find available flight credits in “My Account” under the Travel Funds section in the Southwest app
LIVE CHAT SUPPORT Contact our Customer Representatives over Live Chat through our “Help Center”, found in the “More” tab.
AIRPORT PICKUP AND DROP-OFF Thanks to our partnership with Lyft®, you can now use the Southwest app to help you request a Lyft! You’ll know key information, like estimated time of arrival and estimated price before booking. More of a rental car person? You can do that in the app too.
EARN RAPID REWARDS® POINTS WHEN YOU TRAVEL Sign up for Rapid Rewards and earn points on your flights. Did you forget to add your Rapid Rewards number during booking? No worries, add it after booking your flight and earn points1.
ACCESS INFLIGHT INFORMATION Use the app to take you to our Inflight Entertainment Portal2, where you can watch free live TV3, listen to free music from iHeartRadio3, access free on-demand TV episodes, and watch free movies.
Book a flight, schedule pickups and drop-offs, enjoy fast and easy hotel booking, and embrace last-minute flights for your next spontaneous vacation—all with Southwest.
1All Rapid Rewards® rules and regulations apply and can be found at Southwest.com/rrterms. 2Available only on WiFi-enabled aircraft. Limited-time offer. Where available. 3Due to licensing restrictions, on WiFi-enabled international flights, free live TV may not be available for the full duration of the flight.
Safety starts with understanding how developers collect and share your data. Data privacy and security practices may vary based on your use, region, and age. The developer provided this information and may update it over time.
This app may share these data types with third parties
Location, Personal info and 6 others
This app may collect these data types
Personal info, Financial info and 5 others
Data is encrypted in transit
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Alex Klick
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June 5, 2025
terrible app. I am trying to just see my boarding pass when I am getting on a plane, should be simple right? Yet somehow this simple task is requiring me to recheck in each time, and just overall cumbersome to use. Then on top of that, I get pop up ads to buy more of your terrible flight service? I already paid you and you still gotta do that just to inconvenience people who already paid you? Never again.
99 people found this review helpful
Southwest Airlines
June 6, 2025
We're truly sorry for the frustration. 💙 Viewing your boarding pass should be easy, and we appreciate you sharing this experience. If you're open to it, we'd love more details so we can better improve this — please email us at SWADigital@wnco.com. ✈️-Arlene SWADigital
David Schafer
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October 20, 2024
I've never used an airline app that makes it so difficult to see boarding passes. That should be the most functional part of the app. There's no simple 1-click option to see a boarding pass. You have to go to check in, then check in (even if you already have), and then you can see boarding passes. And if your screen shuts off, the app makes you go through all that again. That's 2 steps more than should be necessary. Terrible functionality.
108 people found this review helpful
Lyle Derose
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September 27, 2025
This is the worst app ever! So confusing! ended up having to use Southwest on my return flight, don't even know if I have a checked bag or not and it looks like if I want to add one it's going to cost me $155, are you freaking kidding me! I really need to just try and stay with Frontier airlines, very easy, not confusing and inexpensive! Southwest used to be my go-to but haven't used them for years, I hate that I have to use them now! next time, I'll wait the extra day to stay on frontier.
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Southwest Airlines
September 30, 2025
Sorry for the confusion! For last-minute baggage questions, please give us a call so our Team can help right away. You can also find details on bag policies here: support.southwest.com/.../baggage
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What’s new
We’ve updated our app with a fresh look and feel, optimized our navigation, and introduced a new enhanced day of travel experience.