Purchased Airline tickets through Southwest with Apple Pay, and the charge aged off.

Hi, airlines and rental car companies operate differently. When you make a reservation the airline does what is effectively a test transaction to make sure you have sufficient credit. The charge shows as pending for about 5 days and will fall of your account. The transaction is known as a card on file transaction. This allows the airline to retain your credit card information. This is normal for all airlines.

The airline submits the charge about 72 to 24 hours before scheduled departure. If the transaction is declined reservation is lost.

If you prefer to pay now, use a travel service like Expedia and do not book directly with airline.

Sounds like a technology issue on SWA’s end.

I’m confident they’ll eventually complete the card charge reconciliation process.

Any corporate accounting system is going to quickly “flag” a debit w/o a corresponding “credit.”

In the meantime, I’d DEF regularly recheck the reservation online.

While not “normal” behavior, it’s not unheard-of either.

I regularly purchase from one particular merchant who is apparently slow to reconcile his “daily” CCard receipts.

His authorizations almost always “age out” and “drop off” from Wallet’s AppleCard Transaction View …

… only to reappear as a completed and processed transaction — with the original purchase date still intact — a week or so later.

Yes, it work just like I said. I run a small travel service for photographers and have experience with all of them. Southwest seems the least transparent about it, in my experience.

My wife and I are both AA cardholders and fly with them almost exclusively.

Safe travels and if you have any additional questions, just post a reply.