- 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.
Yeah I wonder which sentiment will win out. Personally, I thought SouthWest was on the decline with consumers due to their psychopathic boarding policies.
Even for work travel, I’ve been noticing colleagues shitting on SouthWest and realizing it sucks. Playing this ridiculous game trying to fight for a seat, people AND STAFF ignoring boarding number guidelines with no consequences, it’s fucking ridiculous. Delta offers much better travel contracts.
All that effort just to sit in the middle because you didn’t pay $300 extra for the ultra omega line skip. Might as well fly a normal airline and pick your desired seat or pay a little to sit in “comfort” class behind business.
Every flight I would see people frustrated that they paid $100 extra for whatever new fast pass they rolled out only to find out there are 5 boarding groups ahead of them with even faster passes.
Bad for work travel, bad for personal travel, what else is left lol.
Well said. And add on the Mike Judge level shitty comedian repartee from the flight attendants, makes me want to pull my hair out.
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.
I get very motion sick and absolutely fucking dread flying with every ounce of my soul. Sadly i usually end up flying once or twice a year
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.
They also plan to upgrade their computer systems from Windows 3.1 to Windows Vista
Hey I may consider SW again
So what now? I don’t get to moo in line any more?
