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Is There Assigned Seating On Southwest Airlines. Southwest Airlines CEO Gary Kelly wants to be crystal clear about one thing. While some airlines do make it challenging to get free seat assignments together with your family Southwests approach is quite different. If you do so youll almost always get an A boarding pass which means youll be What I dont love however is the Southwest policy of not assigning seats. In fact Southwest does not assign seats in advance at all.
Showing up early means faster boarding. The outcome of this unique process is that passengers are incentivized to show up to the gate to queue early in order to get their preferred seats. Southwest stopped blocking middle seats on Dec. Social distancing has been a. The discount carrier isnt about to start charging. Rather it has a first-come first-served open seating policy that is divided into groups A B and C.
The outcome of this unique process is that passengers are incentivized to show up to the gate to queue early in order to get their preferred seats.
As unconventional as it might sound from other airlines like United the boarding procedures are usually pretty smooth. As a general rule nobody particularly enjoys sitting in the middle seat so those tend to be left over to the end of the boarding process for stragglers in Group C. Note that the Boarding group and the position will determine when you will board the plane and from how many sets you can choose from. Once youre inside the plane you can choose any seat since seats are not assigned with Southwest. Delta Air Lines is the only carrier still limiting seat sales in economy class a policy in effect through April 30. Nobody is getting assigned seating any time soon.