Originally Posted by
iFly7X7
The Company (marketing actually) is looking at bandwidth usage. If you're a high bandwidth user guess what, it is going to get someone's attention because they track this regarding customers. If the IP address is the same on multiple flights and you're the only person common to those flights then yes, you're going to be singled out.
I know this because I have flown with someone in the past and he was called on the carpet because he got marketing's attention with the bandwidth usage and his IP usage was tracked to the only person that was on all the flights. Of course this was before we went to the new log on system and he was using his wife's A-List account.
IP address is different every leg you log in.
Apple products change the MAC address to make it impossible to track.
However if SWA requires a login with a RR number, similar to AA requiring your AAdvantage number, that can absolutely be sorted. You could use a VPN but it's trivial to sort by flight who used that login on what flight and by process of elimination, one person will be left after doing it over say a dozen flights.
Will anything come of it? Absolutely not unless there is an incident, you hit something on the ground after landing, who cares, your device will be looked at and records will be pulled. This has happened to 121 crews in the past and licenses were suspended for weeks/months because of it. Worst case you get fired like the AA F/O in JFK.
Fo the CA's who are playing dumb, just an FYI but I personally spoke to another CA whose FO posted an inflight pic on FB, took it down within 30 minutes, and the FAA still found it. FAA came after the CA, luckily nothing ended up happening but it caused a lot of heartache.