"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."

"I wouldn’t mind that at all. Credit Card companies have super weak security and it’s very easy to defraud them - they just pay our money back, and counts that as losses so we’ll sure up about it and keep using the cards What I mind is that the mobile check-in is basically a lie. Marriott is deceiving me. Random hypothetical people that might or might not stole my credit card are not. Hilton works just fine btw"

"I work for the front desk, at a Marriott, & have for the last 8 years .... So when it comes to room upgrades; it goes based on AVAILABILITY... sometimes no matter the tier, if we have it available - I will upgrade the guest. Now of course, higher tiered members get dibs on the upgrades first but after we go through the higher tiered members, Ambassador, Titanium, Platinum - then we go through the other ones. I cannot express this enough : BEING NICE & POLITE AT THE DESK GOES A LONG WA"