- Southwest plans to offer pricier seats with extra legroom and end open seating on its planes.
- The shifts are the most major in the airline’s more than five decades of flying.
- Southwest expects to start selling seats with the new cabin option next year.
Guess they’re upgrading to Windows 95 and getting some new features in the process!
I hate them removing open seating though, which airline experts have found is basically the fastest, easiest system for boarding planes. Obviously just to allow per-sest pricing, the bane of travellers everywhere.
Southwest has been shown to have the shortest turnaround time of all the airlines due to open seating. IIRC when other airlines were failing and merging, Southwest stayed independent and even profitable. This is just another example of short term gain being prioritized over long term strategy.
Anything to make the line go up. Nothing else matters. This applies across all industries in the US.
Good, the lines and purchase upgrades were out of control.
Cool. Still never flying again unless it’s absolutely necessary. It’s still loud, It’s still expensive, I still have to sit in an uncomfortable airplane seat and I doubt the “extra legroom” is worth the price.
One of the few draws of Southwest was that it was one price for everybody. I guess that’s not true anymore.
Southwest was, and may still be, my favorite airline. Not that I’ve traveled more than 3 times in my life, but the fact that southwest was always at the top for employee satisfaction. I had always respected that. It’s strange to me that they would eliminate a process that is a prime factor in driving sales… But… Money…
At 27, I’m a bit of a seasoned traveler. I used to fly places all the time when I was a kid with my mom and older brother, and when I was a teenager I was lucky enough to go to Europe for a long trip. Now I drive everywhere for work and that means driving all over the damn south-southeast US. I’d much rather fly half the time, because it’s faster, easier to deal with because of the lack of jackasses on the road, and I can chill on the flight.
Of course driving does have its perks sometimes.
So what now? I don’t get to moo in line any more?
Hey I may consider SW again
