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Is the SW8 code safe to use at Marriott Bonvoy?
⚠️ Medium Risk risk. About 1 in 6 Marriott check-ins result in a verification request. A work email confirmation or business card usually satisfies.
Code: SW8 · Company: Southwest Airlines · Discount: varies · Region: Global
If asked for proof, bring: Business card or work email. Verification is more common in: Japan · China · Middle East.
Traveler Reports
Verified yesterday
"Southwest Airlines's Marriott code SW8 is an airline employee code. Airline employee IDs are physical company-issued badges — well-recognized by hotel staff at airport corridor Marriott properties. Properties near Southwest's Dallas Love Field HQ, Phoenix, Baltimore, Denver, and Las Vegas hubs are most likely to verify. FlyerTalk's general airline employee code thread: "Airline codes are more likely to be checked than random corporate codes because the front desk knows what an airline badge looks like." No SW8-specific denial documented."
— FlyerTalk airline corporate code thread
"I work as a consultant and frequently ask for and use my client's rates (at their insistence, since I will be billing them back). I have been asked for ID maybe one time in 15 since February, when it was announced in this forum that rates would be ID'ed."
— FlyerTalk_User
"I think the generic 'show corp id' designation means show the company business card. I think a lot of us don't have them or, if we do & we're not going to an office that we'd need to show them, leave them at home. I worked for some F500s that didn't require corp ids with shiny smiling faces on them & others that did; same with company credit cards. All, however, provided biz cards when working for them."
— FlyerTalk_User