Southwest's procedures made more sense when they only did at-gate checkin. You boarded the plane in the same order as arriving at the gate, and your boarding p

Southwest's procedures made more sense when they only did at-gate checkin. You boarded the plane in the same order as arriving at the gate, and your boarding pass was just a reusable plastic card with a number on it. They had to abandon this when the TSA started requiring a boarding pass to get through security, which made gate-side check in impossible.