Southwest to have assigned seating

[focusondisney]

This is what I think too.


Okay. For some reason I thought that was on Friday.

It’s on the 26th.

 

[focusondisney]

Here you go..

https://www.southwest.com/customer-experience-enhancements/

“We will begin selling flights with seat assignments in the second half of 2025 for travel in the first half of 2026.”

 

[han22735]

I wonder how much it's going to cost to pick seats early. And if you don't it says you get an assigned seat a few days before travel. I wonder how they are going to choose? Random throughout the plane or together based on your reservation.

 

[LoveToDisney]

I wonder how much it's going to cost to pick seats early. And if you don't it says you get an assigned seat a few days before travel. I wonder how they are going to choose? Random throughout the plane or together based on your reservation.

Good questions.

 

[keishashadow]

the current expectations follow.

Changes Credit card holder benefits TBD

expect 1/3rd of seats on every plane to include extra legroom.

SWA is switching the seats on its 175-person Boeing 737-800 plane for a skinnier seat

Will remove a row of seats on Boeing 737-700 planes.

waiting to receive final certification on its new cabin layouts from the FAS

actual retrofitting is slated to begin in the first quarter of 2025.

SWA also plans to implement larger overhead bins and double its Wi-Fi bandwidth.

 

[R&RsMom]

I wonder how much it's going to cost to pick seats early. And if you don't it says you get an assigned seat a few days before travel. I wonder how they are going to choose? Random throughout the plane or together based on your reservation.

If it works as it does on the US legacy airlines, those who don’t choose seats early get what is left. That often is middle seats for full flights. I don’t know at all what SW will do about families with small children.