• 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.
  • SoJB
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    1 month ago

    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.

    • apfelwoiSchoppen@lemmy.world
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      1 month ago

      Well said. And add on the Mike Judge level shitty comedian repartee from the flight attendants, makes me want to pull my hair out.