Rich M
DIS Veteran
- Joined
- Apr 18, 2016
I was on a SW flight many years ago. It was right after SW started the new style of boarding, and I was in the A group, about A20 or so. I boarded, sat down in the third row, window. I watched as a large group boarded....about 8-10 people. They were obviously traveling together. They plopped down in pairs....window and aisle seats. Took 4 or 5 rows, all in the front. People boarded, looked at those empty seats...and were told 'Sorry, this seat is saved' and they would shrug and move on. Well, as the C group boarded, the flight attendant announced that it was going to be a pretty full flight, so if you see an empty seat, sit in it. Man, you never saw people scurry so fast! That family that had 'saved' all those middle seats were now trying to move those empty seats so they didn't have strangers sitting in the middle seats!! I know we all love having an empty middle seat next to us, but that just doesn't happen all that often now that they are flying fewer planes!! Imagine how thrilled some in the late C group were to find seats together, in the front of the plane!!!
Sadly, SW doesn't have a seat saving policy. I wish they did. It outs the onus on the passenger to settle the issue. Not always a good thing.
Yeah. Its not a good policy and good cause people to get nasty. Flights to Orlando can be worse then others do to the large amount of families too.