Originally Posted by
mritty
I have no idea how things work on other airlines, but I somewhat doubt that on those airlines, when you buy a specific seat, that someone else can buy that seat as well. I'm guessing that when all the seats have been sold, any other reservations are sold without a confirmed seat.
Regardless, the OP did not ask for a comparison between SW and other airlines. He asked whether or not buying a WGA fare gave him a confirmable seat. I somewhat doubt he was taking about the legalese definition of "confirmable" from the CoC's. I suspect he meant the normal common sense definition. And under that definition, I maintain the answer is "No".
i think everybody is missing the mark. you are right in that a confirmable seat on southwest does not exist. a lot of people think the wga fares are some kind of wierd standby type of ticket, i think this is the path the op may be travelling, along with possibly the op asking about getting a specific seat, aisle, window, bulkhead, etc. that being the case, a wga fare is every bit as much a seat on the plane as any other ticket, and there are no assigned seats on southwest.