Checkin Sooner... The next best thing to first class

How it works

Checkinsooner.com offers a simple way for you to communicate information to your airline and check in for your flight in when it is convenient for you to do so. New users start by filling out the form under “guests” at the home page. Use the drop down selection to select which airline you will be traveling on. Then, fill in your first name, last name, record locator, and an email where you want your boarding pass sent.
Checkinsooner is not a travel agency, and you can not buy your airline tickets on this site. You need to purchase your airline tickets through normal channels, such as the airline website or a travel agent. Once you have purchased your ticket, get the 6 character confirmation code (also known as a record locator). The record locator is required for checkin.


Once you enter your record locator and name, we check with the airline and get your flight details, including your outbound city (to check the time zone) and exact travel time.

Once the data is entered and confirmed, it is stored on our secure servers in our data center. We get the exact checkin policy for each airline, and as soon as the airline is ready to accept checkins for your flight we transmit your data to the airline. Your checkin secures your seat on your flight.
The policy on most airlines is to allow checkins no sooner than 24 hours before an outbound or returning flight.
You are checked in within 3 minutes of the airline opening a flight for online checkin.


	We also capture the boarding pass the airline sends to us when we check in. We take that boarding pass and email it to you. You are checked in at the earliest possible moment and your boarding pass is in your inbox. Print it and use it to go right past security and to your gate. If you don't have a printer available when your boarding pass is emailed to you, just simply go to the airline kiosk and select the “Reprint Boarding Pass” button. A reprint will be made for you right at the airport.


Enjoy your first / business class upgrade with your status on American / Delta / United / Continental and other major airlines.

A little more about the technology... CheckinSooner uses a time-shifted proxy server to facilitate communications between a flyer and an airline. Proxy servers are common in corporate networks- they broker the connection between a user and a website when the user is not allowed to communicate directly with that website. You can find out more about proxy servers here. Major suppliers of proxy software include Microsoft, Cisco and BlueCoat systems.
On a daily basis, many millions of requests to communicate to web servers are actually fulfilled not by the end user, but by a proxy server. The CheckinSooner innovation is to shift the time element of the website request, as opposed to shifting the source ip address.
When you use our time shifted proxy server you are the one making the request for communication to the destination webserver. The response from the web server is delivered to your email address instead of being delivered to your web browser. A CheckinSooner.com employee does not interfere with or modify the communication you make to the airline or the communication received from the airline back to you.