by Ice Cream Jonsey » Sat Feb 20, 2010 5:05 pm
I've been on Southwest the last two times I've flown anywhere. I will never, ever understand their seating procedure.
For those who don't use them: when you get a ticket, you get a "boarding group." I have no idea how they determine that. I show up to the airport an hour before my flight leaves, so maybe I'm not the first person around, but fuck, I'm always, always in one of the last groups.
Maybe if you are flying with someone they put you in an earlier boarding group? So that way there will still be two seats together for you and your companion? I don't know, but how that is any easier for the customer than just having assigned goddamn seating is beyond me.
Anyway, whatever - they have been the cheapest airline, yet they have gotten me where I've needed to be without having me miss a flight, so that puts them miles ahead of other airlines I've used. I guess what kills me is their cowardice, involving the large passenger thing. JUST ADMIT YOUR POLICIES FOR CHRIST'S SAKE. They want it both ways: they want people paranoid about their weight to fly elsewhere, but they want to be weasels about it.
I've been on Southwest the last two times I've flown anywhere. I will never, ever understand their seating procedure.
For those who don't use them: when you get a ticket, you get a "boarding group." I have no idea how they determine that. I show up to the airport an hour before my flight leaves, so maybe I'm not the first person around, but fuck, I'm always, always in one of the last groups.
Maybe if you are flying with someone they put you in an earlier boarding group? So that way there will still be two seats together for you and your companion? I don't know, but how that is any easier for the customer than just having assigned goddamn seating is beyond me.
Anyway, whatever - they have been the cheapest airline, yet they have gotten me where I've needed to be without having me miss a flight, so that puts them miles ahead of other airlines I've used. I guess what kills me is their cowardice, involving the large passenger thing. JUST ADMIT YOUR POLICIES FOR CHRIST'S SAKE. They want it both ways: they want people paranoid about their weight to fly elsewhere, but they want to be weasels about it.