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We did SW once and never again. Some things we learned the hard way having never flown SW before: You have to pay extra if you don't want to be dead last on the
by ryandrake 1y ago
We did SW once and never again. Some things we learned the hard way having never flown SW before: You have to pay extra if you don't want to be dead last on the plane, and evidently, everyone pays extra, because we were dead last. Not sitting together for sure (you have to pay extra for that too). So we finally get on the plane, and all the carry on space is already used up. We ask the flight attendant "so what now" and she just shrugs like it's my problem. I tell her OK we'll just leave the bags in the aisle then, or will you gate check them for us? Finally, she huffs and proceeds to open every overhead bin one by one until we find two of them with small backpacks that we have to yank down and convince the owners to stick under the seat in front of them. All the while the rest of the passengers are looking at us like we're preventing their ambulance from getting to the hospital.
No thanks. I'll take a slower boarding with a traditional airline that doesn't make their passengers feel like a burden.
- 0cf8612b2e1e 1y agoYou do not have to pay to get your seat order. The order in which people check in to the flight determines seating priority.
- sokoloff 1y agoSWA is phasing in assigned seating and will be fully cutover by this coming February.
- brewdad 1y agoWhile true, in summer travel season more than half the plane will board early when SW allows families with small children to board between groups A and B. There's no real definition of small child and SW will let a party of 8 board early because one of them is 4 years old. Mom, Dad, teenage kids, grandma...etc. You really do need to pay for A boarding if you must sit together. Or game the system and claim you need to preboard.