Southwest Airlines

College Life
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<p>Does anybody know if Southwest Airlines has open seating? I assume you would just pick the first open seat that is taken if the open seating is the case?</p>

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<p>Southwest seats in groups. If you check in on line, available 24 hours before departure, you can get an “earlier” group, and have an earlier shot at a seat. You print your boarding pass, take it to the airport, and wait for them to call your group. Once your on the plane, grab on open seat!</p>

<p><a href=“http://www.southwest.com/travel_center/checkin.html[/url]”>http://www.southwest.com/travel_center/checkin.html&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;

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<p>I fly Southwest quite a bit. </p>

<p>You have 3 groups (A,B,C) with 60 each. The sooner you check in the higher you’ll be. You can check in online and print your boarding pass at no charge 24 hours before your flight leaves (or I believe you can pay $10 to do it earlier). If you wait to check in when you get to the airport expect a high B or C grouping and a middle seat onboard. Once aboard it’s open seating and take any seat you want/can find.</p>

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<p>As long as you print out your ticket the morning of departure, in my experience at least, you almost always still get A. Even if you get a B ticket, the odds are good that you’ll still find a window or aisle seat.</p>

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<p>Thanks. I will go ahead and print the boarding pass online. It doesn’t matter to me where I sit. So the best bet is to just find the first open seat and sit next to them?</p>

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<p>Yeah, but if you value your sanity, you’ll find the first aisle or window seat, preferrable not next to a POS.</p>

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<p>i hate ****in southwest</p>

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<p>“So the best bet is to just find the first open seat and sit next to them?”</p>

<p>You sit IN the open seat, not NEXT to it.</p>

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<p>For some added fun, you should watch that now-canceled reality show that was about Southwest and crazy mfing passengers, Airline, on YouTube. Funny stuff.</p>

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<p>I guess it depends on the route but from my experience flying up the west coast (San Diego, Oakland, San Jose, Sacramento, Seattle) it’s unlikely you’ll score an A if you don’t print out ahead of time.</p>

<p>Also, Southwest likes to board/deplane quickly so even if you have to go to the back to find a decent seat it won’t take that long to get off like it does on other airlines.</p>

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<p>I put my laptop bag on the seat next to me and tell people it’s taken</p>

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<p>^ Can’t help but wonder if you end up with someone “worse” than whoever you told that, in that seat.</p>

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<p>I meant next to them as the person that is in the seat, not the actual seat.</p>

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<p>how? seat’s occupied and I have the aisle</p>

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<p>When the plane is sold out, the flight attendant will ask about it as they are trying to close the door, but some remain standing. If I was standing there without a seat, you would keep lying?</p>

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<p>Nah but it would still be worth it for the other 100 times when the flight is not completely full</p>