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How to get a good seat on Southwest

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It is not the absence of preassigned seats that speeds up boarding. It is the absence of bag fees which reduce carry on luggage. Preassignment of seats absent the bag fees would be just as fast if not faster.

I think Southwest would disagree with you. And the boarding areas aren't a huge push-and-shove cattle pen like they are for other airlines. I can rest comfortably in the waiting area and only get in line just before my boarding group is called, knowing I don't have to stand in front of the gate 45 minutes before they start boarding just to have a chance for some space in the overhead bin.

Personally, I'm glad there is an airline that tries to do things a bit different. If someone doesn't like their mode of operation, there are plenty of other airlines who all operate about the same. What would be the advantage to Southwest to become "just another airline"? :confused:

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It is not the absence of preassigned seats that speeds up boarding. It is the absence of bag fees which reduce carry on luggage. Preassignment of seats absent the bag fees would be just as fast if not faster.

You've never flown them to Vegas then. Even with no checked bag fee's lot's of people fly with only a carry on bag. That way they can skip waiting for a checked bag and head straight for the taxi line and go straight to the casino. :D

No assigned seating does make a difference. Everyone gets on and sits down. Why this doesn't happen with assigned seating I have not idea.
 

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I think that the baggage allowance and no penalty for changing your flight make Southwest a really good option.
 

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But as I am sure you know, going from my place to Midway is a PIA. I am more amenable to Mitchel field in MKE. Nevertheless, I have decided to use them when I can
 

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But as I am sure you know, going from my place to Midway is a PIA. I am more amenable to Mitchel field in MKE. Nevertheless, I have decided to use them when I can
we just flew into MKE on SW, but not as many options as flying into Midway. And landing at Midway can be very "thrilling" due to shot runways.
 

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Delay in boarding number assignment

Just an FYI about a problem I just encountered while trying to do boarding passes at 24 hr mark for an international destination. I had 3 different confirmation numbers (because of using RR miles) for 4 of us traveling so my DH, DD and I were all set to get boarding numbers on different computers at exactly 24 hr mark. I had put in emergency contact information on my itinerary (which was for two of us). I didn't put it on the other 2 itineraries (this was an optional feature). When we went to get our boarding numbers, mine went through no problem. DH & DD did not. They had to manually bypass the request for emergency contact information which delayed the boarding request. I got B4 and B6, they got B17& B19. Most people may already put it in but honestly I didn't even think I needed it...learn from my mistake and put it in to avoid this delay...

Jackie
 
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