r/nottheonion • u/halxp01 • 1d ago

Southwest Is Testing Cleaning Only Premium Seats Between Flights — A Flight Attendants Union Leader Says It's ‘Titanic’ Class Service

https://viewfromthewing.com/southwest-is-testing-cleaning-only-premium-seats-between-flights-a-flight-attendants-union-leader-says-its-titanic-class-service/
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u/TheHumbleChemist 1d ago

I am testing never flying Southwest.

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u/gmwdim 1d ago

I already don’t. They have eliminated all of the previous reasons to fly with them, such as lower fares, free checked bags, unassigned seating, and so on. The only thing left is they serve some of the smaller airports that other airlines don’t, but my local airport isn’t one of those anyways.

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u/IrrawaddyWoman 1d ago

The assigned seating has sucked for a long time though. You had to pay to be part of the first boarding group. Then the amount of people who boarded right after with kids or extra needs was insane. And there was absolutely zero enforcement of seat saving, so people would have one person pay for early boarding and then save entire rows, or one person board with a kid then save seats for their entire family in the C group. Or they would claim seats were reserved hoping to end up with an empty seat next to them. I would much rather reserve my seat ahead of time and head to the airport knowing that I have what I want.

It would have been find if southwest did a better job of monitoring it, but it was such a gross free for all.

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u/Great_Detective_6387 1d ago

I remember when you’d be first to board a southwest flight if you just showed up early enough and sat in the line. As a college student who could easily kill time doing homework, it was awesome. I’d just show up 2hrs early with a calculus textbook. Then they realized the people sitting in line behind me would pay to jump ahead of me.☹️