Originally Posted by ClueByFour

Southwest occasionally still does things relative to everyone else that is unique to them (and at a glance, potentially competitively damaging)--the big one that comes to mind is when the legacies allowed free standby, you still had to "buy up" at LUV. I always assumed that the boys and girls in DAL ran the numbers, and did it for a particular reason, although I don't pretend to know why.